✨ Speak or teach at TestBash Brighton 2025 ✨
Call for Contributions are now open until 22nd December
What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🛥️
I hope you have a good week.
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
Community
Good things are happening in the meetup space. Auckland on the 10th of December thanks to Joyce Bolland, with speakers Ryan Bevens & Yogi Sharma. Berlin on the 12th of December, organised by Jan Eumann and Nico Neuschitzer. Christine Pinto is also supporting the organisation of this one. And look at MoT Belgium doing Open Space and getting ready to puzzle for success. And here's a cool pic from a recent Vancouver's QA TrailTalks meetup. 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇨🇦
The Testing Planet travels again. 🪐
New: Certificate badges are now available on public profile pages. Celebrate your certificate achievements. Check out Christian Baumann and Rahul Parwal's profile pages to see what we mean.
"Being part of the Ministry of Testing community has been such a rewarding journey, and I’ve learned so much from the generous and collaborative spirit of this incredible group. 🪐" – Swathika Visagn. Source.
Help Cassandra pick a topic theme for one of their future talks.
TestBash TestMatch Memory lane.
Career Growth
Now hiring
- Zolani Ratya is hiring a Junior QA Engineer at Santam.
- 2i are hiring for multiple roles.
Open to work
- You can now set your MoT Profile to open to work. Check out who has already done that.
- Carolina GARCÍA M is open to work and is looking for Quality Assurance Manager and Director of Quality roles.
- Alina Ghetler is open to working looking for Software Engineer, Quality Assurance Specialist, or Technical Support Specialist roles.
Mahathee Dandibhotla would like to know how you recognise empathy when hiring.
The Community's Guide to Onboarding.
Interviews, Resume, CVs. A handy collection created by Jesse Berkeley to help you shape your CV/resume and interview like a legend.
Quality coaching
What does a Quality Coach do? Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares his take.
Essentials
"Testers and developers aren't opponents. We're partners in delivering quality software that serves users." – Filip Hric. Test like a developer, develop like a tester.
📚 R is for […]
Automation
Scott Kilgallon earned a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. Bug congrats! 🏆
Do you delete tests as part of your testing strategy?
Automatic snapshot creation in CI for Playwright by Gary Parker.
Melissa Fisher asks, how do you approach figuring out what to automate?
Can We Automate All the Things? Exploring the Limits of Testing in Software Systems by recent The Testing Planet contributor, Jit Gosai.
Tooling
Tool of the Week: Qase 🛠️
🤝 The certification that gives junior testers confidence, community and connections.
Explore MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Performance testing
Testing Video Streaming Apps Under Stress by Irfan Mujagic.
Combining performance testing and exploratory testing with Leandro Melendez, Sérgio Freire and Cristiano Cunha.
Accessibility
Old alt text advice by Steve F.
Adrian Roselli recommends avoiding read-only controls.
Just for fun
When you can't quite commit to accepting and checking the rebrand. 👑
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 6. And once you've found them, why not create your own edition by grabbing Bug and Cosmo from the MoT Kit page? Plus, while you're at it download a fancy new LinkedIn banner!
Spaghetti code? 🍝
Three Germans walk into a TestBash photobooth ... 🤩
Share your memories with the community
🗓️ Events
New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.
- Cambridge Meetup Tue 3 Dec 🇬🇧
- York Meetup Thu 5 Dec 🇬🇧
- Coventry Meetup Thu 5 Dec 🇬🇧
- This Week in Testing Fri 6 Dec
- Auckland Meetup Tue 10 Dec 🇳🇿
- Berlin Meetup Thu 12 Dec 🇩🇪
- Manchester Meetup Thu 23 Jan 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🤩
🗞️ Industry News
- What is software testing, really? by Lena Nyström
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Checklist, Types and Examples by Ana Sofia Gala
- AI's contribution to Shift-Left Testing: improving early-stage testing by Mariana Santos
💡 Continuous Call for Contributions
We are now accepting abstracts for talks and workshops for TestBash Brighton 2025. Go for it! Submit an idea. ⚡️
Contributing to the testing community is a positive way to support your career. Unsure how? There are many ways for you to contribute and be rewarded. The bonus: Sharing your knowledge supports everyone's career growth!
Look out for specific requests in the "Help MoT" channel on the MoT Slack. ✨
Need inspiration? Look at the contributions page. 👀
Poll of the Week (with commentary)
