Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
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⏳ Events happening this week: TWiC — This Week in Community, TestMu Conference, MoT Berlin.
📸 Photo this week is from the experience of the MoTaCon 2025 craft table.
Mock Less. Simulate More.
Get enterprise service virtualization for complex systems, realistic behavior, and AI-assisted workflows.
Want to practise API testing? Try an API that lies to you — Adam Davis
I built Decrypt the Narrative for a university hackathon. The idea was pretty simple: take a hidden narrative, smash it into individual words, then make teams call an API to collect the pieces and figure out how to put it all back together. Except there was a catch: the API lies to you, and it does it quite a lot.
Reality bytes. Meet the teams and terms where they are — Judy Mosley & Simon Tomes, with Shawn Vernier and Heleen Van Grootven
A reflective episode on joining new teams, respecting existing quality processes, asking better questions, naming the work we already do, and using community to turn uncertainty into learning.
The courage to be disliked: what it means for community builders — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes
Explore Adlerian psychology's take on community feeling, from self acceptance to confidence in others, and what it means for community builders.
Help map the AI friction points - Survey — Justin Holsgrove
My friend Oskar Holm at Eficode, (Also Sussex Digital & Brighton Data Forum) and his colleagues have learned a lot about helping their clients get real value out of AI - but they know far less about what's happening outside of their client pool.
Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- Journey Through the Stars — Neil Taylor
- A Sunday With Creativity But Without Testing — Ujjwal Kumar Singh
- AI Learning Plan for Testers (Free Resources) — Rahul Parwal
- Thank you, Wonderproxy — Rahul Parwal
- The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. — Judy Mosley
- The "Happy Path" Gone Wrong — Jesse Berkeley
- Feeling amazed to see lot of awards waiting in my inbox — Preeti Gupta
- Help map the AI friction points - Survey — Justin Holsgrove
- Rosie Sherry — 3 Moments this week: Did someone say Bugs on Bicycles?, I moustache AI a question, and Simon Rigler at MoTaCon 2025.
- Ady Stokes — 3 Moments this week: Proper walking, Testing at the till, and Best mentee question ever (for me).
- Simon Tomes — 5 Moments this week: Humans is human, Thoughts before MoTaCon: The quality institute, Throwback Wednesday: Team day out huddles at MoTaCon, and 2 more.
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online:
- Influence, from the other side of the table — Masterclass — Sept 10th
- Test data driven development — Masterclass — Sept 23rd
MoTaverse, in person:
- Leaders Dinner, London — Sept 28th
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Engineering management beach party — Sept 30th
- Leaders Dinner, Brighton — Sept 30th, SOLD OUT, add yourself to the wait list.
- Pre-MoTaCon Meetup | MoT Brighton
- MoTaCon 2026: 307 people already registered. Let's go!
- MoTography at your service — October 1st
- Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October
MoT Chapter events:
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
- TWiC, listen live or join the stage, and join the Chapter
- Chapter Event #61: Cognitive overload in the AI era | MoT Berlin
- AI Assisted Exploratory Testing with Trowser | MoT AI Chapter
- The MoTaCon Pre-Party: The Spoiler Episode...Live from Groningen | MoT Netherlands
- AI, Agents and Trailblazers. | MoT London
- MoT Manchester x Hippo Digital - The People behind the Testing | MoT Manchester
- MoT Newcastle September Event | MoT Newcastle
- Guardrails & Evals: Keeping Your AI Skills Honest | MoT AI Chapter
- Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
- Pre-MoTaCon Meetup | MoT Brighton
- The Rise of Agentic Testing | MoT AI Chapter
Partner events
- TestMu Conference 2026 — TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest)
- Testing AI When Every Answer Is Different — Parasoft
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