Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
📸 Today's featured photo comes from Brandy Brotherton, Software Quality Engineering Certificate - Check!
🖖 The MoTaCon 2026 crew revealed. 183 people have already registered, it’s one click registration with Professional Membership.
🎓 Bug congrats on MoT Certification to Stephen Platten, Oleksandr Romanov, Danielle Lawrence, Cassandra Leung and Katja Meyer.
Escaping Regression Slowdowns in Long-Lived Software
Learn how Test Impact Analysis (TIA) helps you reduce regression testing time by running only the most relevant tests, enabling faster feedback and more efficient releases for long-lived software.
🖖 MoTaCon 24/7/404 - Ep 131 — TWiQ
A chaotic-but-fun start with 'Diana 404' turns into a big community update: SQEC milestones, the MoTaCon lineup reveal, and why MoT Pro membership is the simplest way to be part of it all.
🧘🏽♂️ The power of proactive patience — Ash Winter and Simon Tomes
Are we ready? How quality coaches and engineers can use patience to support their teams.
🧘🏽♂️ Quality as a curious system - Into the MoTaverse — Episode 13
Alan Page joins the MoTavers to discuss why curiosity is the most critical skill for the modern knowledge worker.
🏁 Testing with feature flags: what we expected and what actually happened — Daria Tsion
Feature flags entered our workflow as a quality safeguard.
🤖 Why Quality Engineers Matter in the AI Era — Gary Hawkes
This post is my own personal therapy. Pretty dramatic image I generated, its a OTT lets face it, but it depicts the despair that I can feel when I feel that certain approaches to the use of AI treat quality with contempt.
😊 The Ahh Test — Rosie Sherry
The Ahh Test is a model to help us make better decisions. It is a binary feel good signal for decision making that helps everyone stay focused on the goals that matter.
😎 Productize Yourself - The MoT Way — Rahul Parwal
Rahul talked about Productize Yourself (an updated version of my first TestBash talk) yesterday at TestMu AI Jaipur Meetup.
🤖 AI state of the union: Reflections Part 2 — Simon Tomes
Reflections whilst watching: An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming with Simon Willison.
🧬 Community theme evolution across three capability layers — Dragan Spiridonov
Donald Norman argued in 1991 that tools don't amplify cognition … they change the task by changing its representation.
🎵 The ultimate hosting duo returns!
We are thrilled to announce that the powerhouse team of Gwen Diagram and Veerle Verhagen will be your hosts for MoTaCon! Why are we so excited? Because some partnerships are just meant to be.
Unlock Confident Coverage and Traceability
Jira Issue Connect brings live, real-time Jira data directly into TestRail, eliminating tab-switching and stale fields.
📆 All upcoming events
Virtual Opportunities:
- Evals in practice for an AI coding agent
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage.
- Software Testing Live: Episode 07 - Testing transparently
- The product-led approach to Quality: What I learnt working side-by-side with testers and engineers
In person:
- Leading with AI - The London Edition — Fri Jun 19th 🌟
- MoTaCon 2026: 183 people already registered. Let's go!
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT.
- Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October
- Chapter events: London, San Francisco, Edinburgh, Munich, Manchester, Netherlands. Brighton.
Partner events:
- Reflect: AI meets the Future of Testing Workflows — SmartBear
- Escaping Regression Slowdowns in Long-Lived Software — Parasoft
- API Testing in the AI Era — SmartBear
- Ship with confidence: Agentic AI-Driven Quality with Rovo Dev and Xray
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