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What's been happening in the testing, QA, dev and quality engineering MoTaverse?
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
MoTaverse
5 reasons I'm super excited to go to TestBash Brighton 2025. We can't wait for your talk, Ben Dowen! 🙌
Add your job title to your MoT Profile, we're doing some research!
What have you done to get the most out of your MoT profile? asks Rahul Parwal.
🎧 Leading with quality actions, not titles, Ep 95. Tune in for real stories of testers stepping up, driving change, and building quality-first cultures. It's another crackin' episode of This Week in Testing.
The DORA survey is open now. And they want input from the testing and quality engineering community.
Quality Engineering Models of the MoTaverse.
“More than just a talk, this evening marked the start of something exciting: a space in Milan where testers, developers, and quality advocates can meet monthly to connect, learn and grow together.” – Aurélien Lair.
Were you at TestBash 2024? We've added more photo memories to this collection: TestBash Brighton 2024 – Software Testing and Quality Engineering Conference. Upload yours and we'll do the same.
Good people, good chats, good learning.
It's now possible to add a GitHub link to your MoT Profile via My MoT.
The Tester is SIGiST's newsletter, published a few weeks before their conference. It's full of handy updates and links to explore. Edited by the wonderful Andrew Shaw.
Rosie Sherry, founder and CEO of MoT, explains why we've been doubling down on the idea of MoTaverse, we are a platform. We are a place to gather: MEO > SEO : MoTaverse Engine Optimisation.
Why I bet on Ministry of Testing Pro (and Won).
Emily O'Connor shares her day at the British Computing Society in London: Mind the Gap (in your thinking).
Some Saturday afternoon learning. Watching a mixture of talks, old and new, from the MoTaverse. The excellent Eamon Droko is putting his Pro membership to good use!
Career growth
We’re collecting live and anonymous salary data to help make sense of the industry landscape of salaries for software testing and quality engineering professionals. Introducing: Software Testing and Quality Engineering Salary Database.
Do you have a secondary specialisation?
From software tester to interviewer: Lessons from my first interview process.
Rituals for successful public speaking by Nicola Sedgwick.
In this talk, Callum shares what Pride is, its history and its importance. LGBTQIA+ Pride Month — Visibility matters: You are not alone. And check out Callum's handy collection of his blogs and talks dedicated to Pride Month and being an LGBTQIA+ engineer.
Chatting with someone in the community last week and they shared this stat with me: 50% of women leave the tech sector before their 35th birthday to never return. 🙁
Rosie would like to know, how have you successfully found freelance software testing work?
Komal Chowdhary asks an interesting question: What do you all think will be the top high demand but low supply QA specializations in 2025–2026?
Quality Talks Bitesize: Interviews - Recruiting With Empathy with Nesha Mistry.
How to get the most out of your MoT profile: Top tips for maximising value by Rahul Parwal.
Good things tend to happen when folks meet folks at TestBash. See who has officially marked themselves as Open to Meet at TestBash 2025. You can update your status via My MoT > Open To. 🤝
Essentials
Find out how testing debt builds up and what you can do to manage it in Module 15 of MoT STEC! Yet another new set of packed lessons in the Software Testing Essentials Certificate. 🏦
“As a tester, it’s all too easy to see this as your task alone and demand that they let you do your work. After all, that is what your whole job is about! The people who did any level of testing before your arrival might insist on reviewing the ticket before you test it, and you might insist that you do all the testing.” Adding software testers successfully to any product team: Experiences, struggles, and tips by Demi Van Malcot.
Hy Nguyen answers: What is an Automation Test Suite? How To Build Them?
How do you apply the Shift-Left Approach? asks Elisse.
The QE Pyramid Nobody Talks About.
Let’s share practical examples of everyone owning quality.
New collection: Compliance Testing. Thanks for setting it up, Komal Chowdhary.
Sunk cost fallacy and Low-code test automation tools. Glossary terms you can add your definition to.
Jit Gosai explains why psychological safety is important to software engineering teams.
“I very much enjoyed taking note of some of the words being used when talking about shifting left.” Last week, Ben Dowen and Callum Akehurst-Ryan led a special Software Testing Live. The recording will be available soon to all professional members. You'll watch two absolute pros in action. Don't be afraid of the experts, we can learn much from them!
You're setting yourself up for failure if QA owns quality.
Leading with quality
Nicola Sedgwick, Ash Hynie, Barry Ehigiator and Keith Klain will help us explore the challenges of quality engineering in a one-day educational experience. Discover what to expect, grab your ticket and lead with quality.
Barry Ehigiator succinctly describes the art of letting go and why it matters to leaders. Part of the Share One Leadership Idea Collection.
A nice quality of a leader is to have a bravery to admit that you don't know something. – Oleksandr Romanov.
Quality Radar: A new way to visualise Quality. Nicola is part of the team leading the one-day in-person educational experience: Leading with Quality. If the radar isn't on your radar (!), then I highly recommend it. 🤩
Most talks about quality don’t make it into developer conferences. This one did.
Why Employees Are Done with Traditional Leadership (What to Do About It) by Lolly Daskal.
"Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it." Well said, Preeti Gupta.
📚 Books on leadership. What could you add to this thread? Oleksandr Romanov recommended this book during last week's This Week in Testing.
How can testers break into leadership and influence quality at a higher level?
Prevent crises. Scale with confidence. A collection of playbooks, templates, and guides to help engineering leaders embed quality as a strategic advantage—especially when AI is accelerating every decision. Check out Christine Pinto's Quality Leadership Toolkit.
Quality is speed and competitive advantage.
Keith Klain talks with Alessandra Moreira about leading quality engineering teams into the brave new world.
If you’ve ever wondered what leading with quality looks like in a modern team, the trade-offs, experiments, quiet wins, and opportunities to build lasting change, this episode will leave you inspired and better equipped to do the work. Callum Akehurst-Ryan: What does modern quality look like? The Leading With Quality Conversations collection takes shape. There'll be plenty more added over the coming weeks.
10 Ideas on "Quality is Care" by Rosie Sherry.
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UI Testing: Essentials & Best Practices
In today’s crowded digital marketplace, a user-friendly interface isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. Whether it’s a website, app, or software platform, users demand intuitive navigation, visually appealing design, and seamless interactions. A confusing or clunky user interface (UI) can quickly drive users away, costing businesses both revenue and reputation. Find out why UI Testing matters.
Tooling
Postman Security Update: Fixing a URL Exposure Risk in ‘Related Requests’ by Sam Chehab, Head of Information Security and IT at Postman.
Letting Playwright MCP Explore your site and Write your Tests by Debbie O'Brien.
Automation
Bug congrats to Pravalika Shobha and David Groves for earning a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. 🏆
Has anyone tried using n8n for test automation workflows? asks Bharat.
Stop thinking in steps, start thinking in systems, urges Kacper Ciepielewski.
Security
I was wondering how involved you are in security testing.
How to Design and Execute Effective Social Engineering Attacks by Phone. Fascinating how easy this can be! Penetration testers and beyond, take note.
Data
Mitigating risk in large-scale financial data migration with Planit.
Measuring
DORA measures 4 key areas; change lead time, deployment frequency, change fail percentage and failed deployment recovery time. Sophie points out that these metrics are not people-centric and do nothing to consider the bigger picture.
AI
New collection: AI is going just great. 🫠
A Practical Guide to Generating Squish Test Scripts with AI Assistants by Otso Virtanen.
MCP Gives LLMs Full Access: Postman Fixes It [Between 2 Devs].
Beyond the Static: How Image-to-Image Generative AI can Revolutionise Product Content Personalisation by Jon Baker at Dunelm.
“So you’re probably wondering: Is there a method that combines the depth of human evaluation with the scalability of automation? Enter LLM-as-a-Judge.”
Refining input guardrails for safer LLM applications with Capital One.
Katalon and RMIT expand strategic partnership to build an AI-ready workforce.
Sean Goedecke asks: What's going to happen to junior engineers?
We're Using AI Wrong and It's Making Us Stupid.
Have you tried any of these LLM-as-a-Judge tools?
Just for fun
"Make sure to get my good side" at BCS SIGiST 2025. 😃
Sometimes it's hard to choose which MoT Mascot to represent.
🗓️ Events
Keep checking the events page for the most up-to-date info.
- Breaking the API Dependency Bottleneck in Enterprise Software Testing Mon 16 Jun to Mon 30 Jun 🖥️
- Webinar: Beyond the Dashboard - Efficient GUI Testing for Android Automotive Tue 24 Jun 🖥️
- Berlin Meetup Tue 24 Jun 🇩🇪
- Porto Meetup Wed 25 Jun 🇵🇹
- Athens Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇷
- London Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇧
- Cork Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇮🇪
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇺🇸
- This Week in Testing Fri 27 Jun 🎙️
- Accelerating Test Design: From Chaotic Requirements to Ready-to-Run Test Assets Fri 27 Jun 🖥️
- Tunis Meetup Mon 30 Jun 🇹🇳
- This Week in Testing Fri 4 Jul 🎙️
- Plymouth Meetup Wed 9 Jul 🇬🇧
- This Week in Testing Fri 11 Jul 🎙️
- Newcastle Meetup Tue 15 Jul 🇬🇧
- Software Testing Live Wed 16 Jul 🔎
- This Week in Testing Fri 18 Jul 🎙️
- Leading with Quality Tue 30 Sep 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🚀
Get the details on all our upcoming community-led meetups. All recorded events are added to the Ministry of Testing catalogue. Professional members have access to the entire catalogue of learning material. 🤩
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