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Embrace the chaos as testers share real-world struggles, celebrate Worldwide Tester Day, and tap into the MoTaverse for positive vibes, support, and fresh ideas.

Explore different mindsets to improve testing, overcome bias, and add more value.

Thanks for participating in the chat during This Week in Testing, Episode 104. 

I’m coming from: Bitburg. Germany My role is: Principal Test Architect I’d love to meet others who are into testing, test automation, and people who can tell/ teach me about quality engineering. ...

I’m coming from Christchuch, England My role is: QA and Release Manager

I’m coming from: Amsterdam, Netherlands My role is: QA Tester I’d love to meet others who are into: challenging, improving and sharing I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Attendee I’ve been to T...

Hello! This is Jokin from Valencia, Spain. My current role is Problem Manager in Nespresso. I´m coming to TestBash as an Attendee I been to testbash many times.

Call me Dima because you won't be able to pronounce my name ;D. I’m coming from Berlin, originally I'm from Ukraine. My role is: Manual software tester. And it's been like this for the last 7 yea...

Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Testing, Episode 104. Great to hear your advice. 

About Me: I’m coming from: London, UK My role is: QA Lead I’d love to meet others who are into: API Testing, Contract Testing I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Speaker I’ve been to TestBash: T...

Hi, I am Jaime from London and will be attending both days of TestBash 2025. This will be my first time attending and excited to experience the event Looking forward to seeing you all there

Hello, my name is... Isabel Evans About Me: I’m coming from: Scotland. My role is: Post graduate research student at University of Malta. I’d love to meet others who are into: want to discuss ...

I’m coming from: near Skipton in West Yorkshire, UK My role is: Programme Lead for Software Testing Apprenticeships for BPP University - School of Technology I’d love to meet others who are i...

"I'm not sure how deep the answers need to be so they are relatively brief, but I'm very happy if you need more to have a deeper chat with me if it will help. 😁"

Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull are hiding outside the entrance to the Brighton Dome, the venue for TestBash 2025. Can you find them? I took this photo while grabbing a quick breather during ...

It was so great to listen to Twit Episode 103 where we had a talk around being a solo tester in the organisation. Watch out the full episode to understand the challenges, struggle, mindset, conve...

Thrilled to share that I’ve crossed 50+ stars and earned 12 badges in my Ministry of Testing journey. 🏅 Thanks to Rosie Sherry, Simon Tomes & the MoT community for a space to grow and connect.

I’m coming from: West Wales My role is: Principal Quality Engineer at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency I’d love to meet others who are into: building things to test things I'm coming to ...

I mean technically you can sit on any of these, but likely wouldn't be your first choice, or comfortable to sit on the apples, hot drinks or microchips. Perhaps the question is actually "which of t...

May your cake be sweet and your bugs be few.

I’m excited to share that, alongside TeamMoT, we’ll be gathering 50 Leaders in Quality on September 30th. What looks like a one-day event is actually the beginning of a bigger journey: a committ...

A golden platter won't save quality, but we might

I’m excited to share that, alongside TeamMoT, we’ll be gathering 50 Leaders in Quality on September 30th. What looks like a one-day event is actually the beginning of a bigger journey: a committ...

Who's really doing the testing? Plus plenty more happenings in the MoTaverse.

AI Stress? Trust your people

Blog talking about whilst AI Agents and the associated vendor marketing can be a scary prospect for testers, there is one quality of humans that means you can relax and trust your people

Blog talking about whilst AI Agents and the associated vendor marketing can be a scary prospect for testers, there is one quality of humans that means you can relax and trust your people

I'm on cloud 9 and enjoying all the Badges I earned today along with the MoT community certificate

That moment when a “3-pointer” suddenly turns into a “13.”

From me to you! Hi all 👋 The title might seem little controversial, or so, when I first had this shared to be the topic of my presentation in 2018 at Conference held by MoT in Karachi Pakis...

It feels weird to see talk of quality talk in relation to tech becoming a hot topic of interest. But I'm so here for it! A surprise? Not from our "quality engineering" perspective. I've had many...

Are you a creature of habit? Alex believes you are, learn more about habits in his talk.

Great discussion in your leading with Quality session with Rosie. Loved your perspectives 👏

Navigate the challenges of being the only quality advocate by creating structure, sharing practices, and guiding your team toward collective responsibility.

Detect where integration failures start using a simple, fast and innovative 5-point parallel search method

Discover how HIL testing enables early system-level validation of embedded software, even before it can be integrated with the physical environment or external systems.

Gain API testing confidence with this hands-on podcast course, featuring 30 ten-minute activities that build your skills step by step.

Doing this certification was cool, haha!! I'm Software Testing Essentials Certified (STEC) !! Thanks guys, for creating an opportunity to contribute to this certificate. Got to know a lot of "ho...

When you are busy in your work and receive MoT notification for receiving a new Community Star - feels Grateful - wow , Another hour while you are still enjoying Stars received, get MoT notificati...

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AI and Responsibility

Inspired by Aimans club post https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/why-human-centric-testing-matters-more-than-ever/86567/5

When we first deployed the new meme pages, I needed something I could add to see how things looked in live. I considered just taking one of the great ones added to the Slack workspace, but decided ...

"Looking forward to seeing this one Aiman. Love your work on the club!"

Great episode where we had insights all about STEC - the lessons and topics as part of STEC. More interestingly, I can't miss to mention the coincidence of matching our hosts name and the topic t...

Sometimes the best thing we can do about anything is talk about it, and quality is one of those things...

I'm happy to share that I have successfully completed the course and passed the test for Software Testing Essentials (STEC). I wanted to be the first to be STEC Certified but someone else beat me t...

I've been involved in software testing for a while now. I have both ISTQB and Certified Agile Tester training certificates. I've also had the honour of creating the course concept and a significant...

23rd of September 2022, Salford Quays, Manchester. One of the workshop rooms at the Lowry during TestBash. Looks like it was Stu Day's workshop. Great to see deep discussions. The power of t...