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It was very cool to see Barry talking so positively about his role in quality and testing on a BBC social video. Bug congrats, Barry!
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🚢 The MoTaverse has been shipping
It's fast becoming an amazing search enginer for all things quality and testing…
- The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123 — TWiQ
- Don't automate quality, automate testing - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 4
- Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains — Stephen Platten
- Test smarter with property-based testing — Gopi Shankar Haridas
- Bang-for-buck automated testing in game development — Andrew Fray
- And the Ambassadors of the MoTaverse for 2026 are... 🥁
- Follow your favourite brands in the MoTaverse
- Testing data quality effectively — Bob Salmon
✨ So many, shiny, shiny, memories:
It's so cool to see al these MoT Memories appearing, let's keep going!
- The dev conference search is on
- Re-igniting MoT Brighton
- Sunday Morning With AI
- 25th Year of Agile Manifesto
- River - Guardian of the MoTaverse
- Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
- More than ever, we need human to human connection
- Feedback for the tester to Quality Engineer gap analysis
- 🤭 An impromptu Friday virtual meet is better with filters
📆 Upcoming Events
Virtual Opportunities:
- We can test in production: An introduction to shifting testing right.
- RiskStorming: Artificial Intelligence
- Agentic QE: From AI Assistant to AI Workforce
- Don’t automate everything, review everything — Software Testing Live 🎉
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage.
In person:
- MoTaCon 2026: you can submit to speak. Remember, to attend MoTaCon 2026 you need a Professional Membership (available for teams!), no separate ticket purchase is required. Registration is required, save your place today. 138 people booked already.
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- Chapter events: Netherlands, London, Munich, Brighton,
Partner events:
- How to Cut API Testing Time - live demo and Q&A
- Choosing AI-Powered API Testing Tools: What Capabilities Really Matter
- Introducing TestRail 10: Confident Coverage and Traceability with Jira Issue Connect
- Too Many Tests, Too Little Time: Smarter Ways to Tackle Manual Regression Testing
- Metrics that Matter
- RBCN 2026 - Online
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From The Observatory:
The Observatory is where we and the community share blogs, articles, videos and news from the quality ecosystem. It will save you time in searching through the chaos of the social web.
Here are our top picks, visit The Observatory for the full list!
⭐️ From the MoTaverse community:
- An AI Agent Got Rejected from Open Source and Called Out the Maintainer for Gatekeeping — Angie Jones
- RACI: Learning to trust letting go of responsibility — Alison McGuigan
- Test cases are step by step instructions on how to miss bugs — Maaret Pyhäjärvi
- What’s in a Title? Nothing. And Everything. — Maria Kedemo
- Hope is a Dangerous Thing — Keith Klain
- A coaching framework for testers — Mike Harris
- Quality As A System: How Systemic Thinking Can Transform Quality with Philippa Jennings — Quality Talks
- A Quality Czar Won’t Fix Your System — Alan Page
⭐️ Industry tech news:
- AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit
- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
- Continuous AI in practice: What developers can automate today with agentic CI
- This is the most misunderstood graph in AI
- Continuous Localization Testing with Jenkins and WonderProxy
- Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning
- Your AI is your Test Engineer. No Code Needed.
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