Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
🔥 New MoTaverse profiles are now live!
⏳ Events happening this week: TWiC — This Week in Community, This Week in Quality and MoT Edinburgh.
💗 Join the MoTaverse family as a partner.
🐹 Get your Hamster Badge.
📸 Photo this week is from MoTaCon 2025.
SmartBear BearQ launched - Start free trial!
BearQ continuously tests your app, reducing test maintenance and uncovering gaps scripted tests can miss.
When AI maintains your tests: Designing safe self-healing automation — Pranav Pandit
Locator maintenance is the hidden tax of UI automation
Grow with the new MoTaverse profile page — Simon Tomes
👤 A simpler, more familiar way to see everything you've been up to
Think bigger: what's going on with the AI test case generation? — Simon Tomes & Nataliia Burmei
How workflow thinking takes your AI use beyond test cases and bug reports
The MoTaverse partner family just got bigger 🙌 — Diana Dromey
A growing list of brands that believe community is worth investing in
The search for the lost code, best chair and the magic of MoTaCon — Simon and Demi, with Maneesh and Neil
A lively episode about MoTaverse profile upgrades, MoTaCon momentum, AI-assisted testing, hidden knowledge silos, and why real human conversations still matter when tools move fast.
Vibe-code, community platform, whatever: it's about data — Rosie and Simon
Unpack a hamster meme, a community platforms versus vibe-code poll, and lessons from IKEA and Stack Overflow, landing on data as the real story.
Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- Laziness, Impatience, and Minding the Gap — Cassandra H. Leung
- Data-Driven Testing Patterns to Keep Your Suite Clean at Scale — Komal Chowdhary
- Test Data Types: A Mental Model for Automation using Playwright at Scale — Komal Chowdhary
- Head of Engineering Lesson 1 - Communicating with the Exec team — Gary Hawkes
- Hot take: Software was bad before AI too — Shawn Vernier
- 404 stars! — Deborah Reid
- Ady Stokes — 3 Moments this week: Leeds MoT Chapter Start Speaking Workshop, A tester walks into a security conference, Staying positive in a pandemic (a personal story).
- Simon Tomes — 6 Moments this week: Kind things people have said about me, The Triple A of AI: articulate, accelerate, amplify, Throwback Wednesday: Behold! The golden circle of testing!, and 3 more.
- Diana Dromey — 6 Moments this week: Access Quality Insights, Post to the Observatory, If you're reading this in 2030..., and 3 more.
- Rosie Sherry — 5 Moments this week: Demi left the TWiQ stage for a moment and look what Bug did!, Prompt a CV from your MoTaverse Profile, Throw back Wednesday! Giz us job goat, 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
- Social event at the Fringe: Get Your Geek On | MoT Edinburgh
- QA Walk&Talk Vancouver - Casual Meetup for Software Testers | MoT Vancouver
- Chapter Event #61: Cognitive overload in the AI era | MoT Berlin
- AI Assisted Exploratory Testing with Trowser | MoT AI Chapter
- AI, Agents and Trailblazers. | MoT London
- MoT Manchester x Hippo Digital - The People behind the Testing | MoT Manchester
- The MoTaCon Pre‑Party: The Spoiler Episode...Live from Groningen | MoT Netherlands
- Newcastle September Mot Event | MoT Newcastle
- Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
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