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🎙️ Quality moments and delicate developer dialogues - Ep 127 — TWiQ

Celebrate surprise-smooth demos, learn how solo testers spark better quality conversations, and explore “assumption investigating” as a core skill for making work clearer and kinder.

🥞 Friction in Quality Engineering Collection — Neil Taylor

You know what's cool? Many voices riffing off one another and being able to form it into a collection to keep building upon and make sense of it. This collection covers the challenges and benefits of friction in quality engineering and testing.

🐙 Three ring binders, AI tentacles, and the future of quality — Into the MoTaverse Episode 8

A conversation with Shawn Vernier on skpeticism in quality engineering, the realities of test automation, the role of documentation, why comunity matters for professional growht, and the most important part, AI tentacles.

📰 The Next Chapters: Philippines, Manchester, Edinburgh & Newcastle — News

We continue to do the work to migrate and form new Chapters (previously Meetups). Join a Chapter, offer to help lead one, and look at for any new events near you.

🧠 The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs — Call for Insights

How do AI guardrails deal with millions of possibilities?

⭐️ Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important by Ishalli Garg — Article

Prioritise high-impact user journeys and critical risks over exhaustive checklists to ensure essential product functions remain reliable and user-focused through a product-minded testing approach.

🤖 Stop delegating your thinking: Using 5 whys to check AI documentation — by Cristina Carrageis — Article

Shift from treating AI as a "single source of truth" to using it as a "clarity booster" for human-led ideas.

🛑 Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios by Viola Lykova - Talk

Viola Lykova explains why teams should stop overtesting login page UI and instead focus on a handful of high-impact authentication journey tests.

💪 Quality Engineering: From Assurance To Engineering Confidence — Jagrit Gyawali — Talk

Jagrit Gyawali argues that quality engineering is really about shared ownership, fast feedback, and confident delivery.

🗺️ A year ago - Journey through Motaverse - Those 5 months in Motaverse!! — Preeti — Moment

Her words on the power of the MoTaverse community.

🍯 Blog launch: Weave - Threads of Software Quality — Chris Pratt

So good to see Chris launch a quality blog!

📝 Why Publicly Appreciating Quality Thinking Builds a Stronger Quality Culture — Stu Day

We encourage the thinking… but we don’t always celebrate it when we see it happening or when the outcomes of those thoughts are put into action, is it time to build quality in public?

The Quality Cost of the AI Vampire — by Dragan Spiridonov

Why the AI productivity drain goes deeper than energy — and what sustainable pace actually looks like in the agentic age.

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