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What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🚜
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
Community
Bug congrats to Cassandra H. Leung, Maneesh Maddala and Andrew Kelly for earning an MoT Community Certificate. Thank you for all your involvement. 🏆
Rahul goes above and beyond, again! Bug congrats. 🚀
The community explores strategies for achieving growth goals. Growth goals for 2025, what are yours?
Great to see things moving forward. Support Christine Pinto's test quest! Share feedback on the MVP of Epic Test Quest.
"January in the MoTaverse is a vibe. This month is packed with incredible events—major hi-fives to everyone for making them happen!" shares Alexandra in the MoT Slack. MoT Meetups in January.
Quality Insight: New Year - New QuuuuA by Judy Mosley.
MoT is here to help with all the digital displacement through social networks! Find software testing professionals on Bluesky. 🦋
Antonella celebrates her new badge, which one could it be?
"As a testing community, we have failed to make software better. And let me be clear, developers have also failed." A compelling argument from Maaike Brinkhof.
📊 Testing Trends Weekly — Issue 2.
"I've had a flurry of new writing and exercises for the site." Find out what James Lyndsay has been up to.
Mel Eaden urges us to retire the rock star stereotype.
Another successful Open Space meetup in the books! Our cozy group proved once again that quality conversations don't need huge crowds - they need engaged people with great ideas.
When I decided to re-enter the online community, I really wanted to do it both sustainably and impactfully, so to receive this recognition is very much hands raised emoji 🙌 Thank you, MoT!
Career Growth
Job moves
- Bug congrats to Kenneth Thomas who has started a new position as Lead QA Analyst at The Home Depot Canada.
- Jean-Michel Dolo starts a new position as an analyste de tests. Bug félicitations!
- Bug congrats to Tom Langerhorst on his new role as Test Automation Engineer at Schoological!
Now hiring
- Paul H. is looking for a Senior Agile Tester at Prommt.
- Quality Engineer, Miami, FL.
- Santander Auto Software is on the lookout for an experienced SDET.
- Waitrose - iOS or Android | Staff Quality Engineer | Bracknell Head Office campus, UK | Hybrid/flex | PERM.
- Hiring? Advertise on the MoT job board for free. 📌
Open to work
- Kim Knup is looking for Senior Software Tester, Software Quality Assurance Tester, Test Lead, and Head of Quality Assurance, Scrum Master or Product Owner roles in London and Greater Brighton and Hove Area.
- Professional members can now set their MoT Profile to open to work. See who is open to work.
📊 As part of the interview process, do you ask software testers to do a test? To test or not to test, that is the question!
Essentials
A must-watch! Isabel Evans conducted a qualitative study of testers from multiple countries, working in many domains, with information about their backgrounds, hobbies, roles, and characteristics. Breaking stereotypes: who is testing and why it matters.
An update from Sarah Deery: 🚀 New STEC Module Release: Module 6 - Risky Business: The Relationship Between Testing and Risk. Excited to announce that module 6 is now available on the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate! This module explores the connection between testing and risk, equipping testers with practical techniques to uncover, analyse, prioritise, and communicate risks. It emphasises how risk mitigation supports software value and helps testers focus their efforts effectively.
Testing encompasses a vast and complex area of skills and expertise. Lisa Crispin shares frustrations with the misconceptions she's seen in her career: Testing, terminology and misperceptions.
Cassandra added more definitions to the glossary: Continuous Quality, Biases and Acceptance Criteria.
New collection: Insights into Technical Testing. Thanks to Jesse Berkeley for setting it up.
Try this. 1. Visit ministryoftesting.com 2. Scroll down to the new Glossary section 3. Refresh the page. 😃
There are opposing quality criteria, unknowns about the future, unclear requirements, missing feedback and most of all, not enough time. We have to settle with enough for now on a regular basis. – Patrick Prill.
What is Manual Testing?
Continuous Quality
Stephen Platten shares three reasons to read Holistic Testing. 📗
Quality Engineering
Quality Engineering in focus: don’t miss The Testing Planet, episode 8. See who’s joining the journey. The speaker lineup is now available.
How is a Quality Engineer different from a Test Engineer?
Explore MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC)
🤝 It’s time to approach learning about testing differently. STEC is the certification that gives junior testers confidence, community and connections.
Systems Thinking
Where are you learning about systems thinking?
Tooling
🛠️ Tool of the Week: PractiTest.
"I have noticed a trend that in the past couple of months several such changes have appeared for QE related tools/libraries." Beth Marshall suggests we need to talk about test related open source software deprecations.
How to write types for "cy.task" operations and its options argument by Gleb Bahmutov.
AI
Metamorphic and adversarial strategies for testing AI systems by Amruta Pande. Discover how these innovative testing strategies can help uncover hidden flaws and prepare AI systems for unpredictable real-world scenarios.
Accessibility
When evaluating accessibility to what extent do you use actual accessibility assistance tools?
Implementing ARIA: Avoid Common Pitfalls and Optimise Performance by Florian Schroiff.
Automation
Chris Mendoza earns an MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. Bug congrats! 🏆
Alessandra Moreira explores the shift in front-end test automation: Testing Tools and Teamwork.
Security
Creating Burp Extensions: A Beginner’s Guide with Dave Blandford.
Design/UX
"It’s a good time to revisit some of the incredible new technologies that are broadly available and supported in modern browsers today." Cosima shares a journey through new front-end features.
Just for fun
Bug and Cosmo now have their own dedicated section on the memories page. Proper superstars! I feel so proud of these two. They've worked hard for this! If you need a break from the busyness, go find Bug and Cosmo. They are waiting for you. 🕵
🗓️ Events
New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.
- Newcastle Meetup Tue 21 Jan 🇬🇧
- Manchester Meetup Thu 23 Jan 🇬🇧
- This Week in Testing Fri 24 Jan 🎙️
- Bengaluru Meetup Sat 25 Jan 🇮🇳
- Episode Eight: Exploring Quality Engineering Wed 29 Jan 🪐
- Auckland Meetup Thu 30 Jan 🇳🇿
- London Meetup Thu 30 Jan 🇬🇧
- Leeds Meetup Thu 30 Jan 🇬🇧
- Sheffield Meetup Thu 6 Feb 🇬🇧
- Episode Nine: Exploring Systems Thinking Thu 27 Feb 🪐
- Episode Ten: Exploring Quality Coaching Thu 27 Mar 🪐
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🤩
💡 Continuous Call for Contributions
You can contribute to the community and be rewarded in many ways. Sharing your knowledge supports everyone's career growth! 📈