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What's been happening in the testing, QA, dev and quality engineering MoTaverse?
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
MoTaverse
London MoT 4.0 (The BIG Summer Sprint) - Lets gooooooooooooo!
MoT Milan are looking for speakers.
New collection: Quality Talks Bitesize – Interview advice for interviewees and interviewers. Stu Day and Chris Henderson dive deep into the world of interviewing, with reflections on their roles has hiring managers. Plus discussions with those who are currently open to work and who have recently secured a new role.
Global App Testing - Crowd Testing Community.
Ministry of Testing PH x Gen AI Philippines x Cambridge Manila Meetup.
Five fun facts about the origins of This Week in Testing.
Hosted by Accenture, the latest Leeds event was accessibility themed to support GAAD, Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
Rosie and Danny at TestBash Brighton in 2015.
“Coming in June 2025, I’m happy to share that the Women in Testing Newsletter is opening its doors. You’ll glean insights from Testing contributors who are boots-on-the-ground working to make software better than it’s ever been.”
Sarah Deery shares an update about our brand-new professional member course: API mocking made easy.
This Week in Testing Episode 92. Why are testers so good at delivering bad news? In this episode, we unpack the art of honest communication, empathy, and trust in software testing conversations among lots of other topics in software testing and quality. Featuring Simon Tomes, Christine Pinto, Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Lukas Lindinger and Emily O'Connor.
🤩 Who's been getting community stars? A whopping 169 people received at least one community star in May. That's a 28% increase from April. Plus, the community received 557 stars in May, a 50% increase from April. Wow!
Need something to read other than this newsletter? How about MoT's very own, The Observatory? 🛰️
Career Growth
Quality Talks Bitesize: Interviews - The Power of Data Insights with Dalbir Sehmbi. Stu Day and Dalbir discuss the importance of tracking job applications, building relationships with recruiters, and the lessons learned from various interview experiences.
Steve Huynh shares the art of asking intelligent questions.
Your future employers are ChatGPT’ing about you.
How to be confident in an interview: Real tips for standing out in a tough job market by Mara Gates.
A while back, Lewis Prescott shared QA Test Automation Engineer interview questions from a QA Lead in London.
“I do think one thing that is becoming more common, is the building utilities to aid testability. So thats where automation engineers skill sets are being extended closer to developers beyond just testing UI’s, API’s and databases - but tools to bridge those testability gaps.” – Gary Hawkes. What’s changed? Roadmap To Becoming A Test Automation Engineer.
Emily O'Connor would like to know, have you ever been given any “bad” feedback during your testing career?
Essentials
What Does ‘Quality’ Really Mean in Software Development? by Kat Obring.
Are You Over-Engineering Your Tests? asks Kristin Jackvony.
Hanisha Arora shares a compelling take on fixing a bug vs fixing a feature.
There are now 178 terms and 283 definitions on the community-contributed MoT Glossary. It's a treasure trove of knowledge open to all! 🗄️
How would you prioritise this bug?
🌶️ Still a hot topic: Is test case management dead?
Leading with Quality
Share one leadership idea that you practice. 1. Visit the MoT Memories page. 2. Create a new memory and share one leadership idea that you practice 3. Upload a short 99-second video or write it, plus add an appropriate image. We'll spot it and add it to the collection. 🤩
Anton Zaides asks, are you a hero engineering manager? And shares why it's a problem.
Brave Not Perfect: How to Lead Without Waiting Until You’re ‘Ready’.
Nicholas Ngorok shares a day in the life of an engineering manager.
“Situational leadership is an adaptive leadership style. Rather than sticking with a fixed approach, a leader will change their leadership behaviors based on the individual, the task, and the context they’re managing.” – Kat Boogaard. Lead how they need: adopting a situational leadership style.
Shielding your team sounds good, right? Yet is it really helping?
Miles and Milestones: The Marathon of Agile Delivery by Priyesh Mistry.
3 Reasons Why Female Leaders Burn Out More than Male Leaders by Dr. Shibu Selatole.
The Quality Coach Handbook is your practical guide to shifting to a model where the whole team owns quality and in particular software engineers design, build, test and support software. Bug congrats on your book, Anne-Marie Charrett. 🏆
Making flex work: How employers can optimize benefits strategies in challenging times.
Mariela Dabbah shares how to turn constructive criticism into career growth.
Advising Middle Managers by Elizabeth Zagroba.
Leading with examples gives permission.
Quality Engineering
SQEC, the Software Quality Engineering Certificate, it's happening! 👀
A career in quality and testing can be a maelstrom of extreme highs and lows, that leave you lost at sea.
"I am not here to just test I am here to add value to someone or some team. By adding value I am adding quality not just into the product but the whole SDLC. Its not simple, as there is many “battles” to have but picking up one thing at a time is a start." – Lee “Muzz” Murray.
What do you want engineers and management to know about Quality? asks Christine Pinto.
Are we creating roles with impossible scopes?
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Tooling
🛠️ Tool of the week: Virtuoso
Check out Isabel Evans methodical approach to selecting tools. It's impressive! Using the test tooling heuristics in different ways.
How do you approach testing multi-user workflows in Playwright?
🥞 New collections:
- Your Complete API Platform, From Design to Delivery with Postman
- The comprehensive solution for successful test management with TestBench
- Cross-platform solutions for the entire software development lifecycle with Qt Group
If you're learning Kafka, this article is for you by Vu Trinh.
Test-Driven Development
Identify when TDD, traditional, or hybrid testing best fits your environment to deliver high-quality software. Lessons learned in test-driven development: Software tester edition by Arun Vishwanathan.
Test Case Management
TestBench at Ziehm Imaging: Variant management for the highest demands in medical technology.
GUI Testing
Legacy Applications Aren’t Going Away. Here’s How to Test Their GUI Properly in 2025.
Chaos Engineering
New to the glossary: Chaos Engineering. Thanks, Marie Cruz.
Security
Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years.
How we built enterprise search to be secure and private by Ian Hoffman and Claire Bowman.
Ferdinand Hagethorn reflects on the cyber-attacks at M&S, Co-op & Harrods.
Accessibility
Quality Blether, the Scottish Testing Group podcast, chat with Ady Stokes about accessibility.
Why we should all be embarrassed by the WebAIM Million Report.
Production issues
Alistair Forrester Burrowes describes how Zendesk resolve incidents with the Remote Incident Console.
Technical debt
How to Tackle Technical Debt and Maintain High Software Quality.
AI
Prompt injections: A new opportunity for testers. Generative AI apps and integrations are growing fast and so are the injection attacks. This time it's through harmless-looking plain text, aka prompts.
AI First Puts Humans First by Tim O’Reilly.
“I wonder if one of the reasons I'm finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of people that I see in online discussions is that effectively all of the code I work on has automated tests.”
How has the role of a tester changed at companies implementing GenAI solutions?
Reddit discovered the funniest thing in tech this week, and it shows exactly how broken the AI narrative is.
AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data.
LLM Optimization: LoRA and QLoRA by Vyacheslav Efimov.
Do you use saved prompts in your day-to-day Testing with AI workflow? asks Rahul.
Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work by Sean Goedecke. The “second opinion” technique is fantastic!
Impact of Generative AI in Software Development.
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Just for fun
It takes grit to put on a conference.
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29.
🗓️ Events
Keep checking the events page for the most up-to-date info.
- This Week in Testing Fri 6 Jun 🎙️
- Tunis Meetup Sat 14 Jun 🇹🇳
- Milan Meetup Mon 16 Jun 🇮🇹
- Barcelona Meetup Tue 17 Jun 🇪🇸
- Software Testing Live Wed 18 Jun 🔎
- Valencia Meetup Thu 19 Jun 🇪🇸
- Athens Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇷
- London Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇧
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇺🇸
- Plymouth Meetup Wed 9 Jul 🇬🇧
- Newcastle Meetup Tue 15 Jul 🇬🇧
- Software Testing Live Wed 16 Jul 🔎
- Leading with Quality Tue 30 Sep 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🚀
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