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Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London

Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London

On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST). This year I spoke at the conferen...

On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST). This year I spoke at the conferen...

19/07/25 London. Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI. At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...

Here's my TestBash 2025 intro: I’m coming from: Begijnendijk, Belgium My role is: Test engineer I’d love to meet others who: love exploring everything testing and quality I'm coming to ...

There were so many great comments in the chat during The Awesome Power of Shifting Left. I captured a few of them. Thanks everyone for you commentary contributions.

What a great session, so many good insights and snippets, too many to log them all, but I very much enjoyed taking note of some of the words being used when talking about shifting left. - What n...

Thanks for sharing your ideas about improving the MoT membership page for someone with a professional membership. Plus, feedback about the new salaries feature. It's much appreciated.

A year ago in York

Does your phone have that feature where it highlights your photo memories? Here's one of mine! In June 2024 at Ministry of Testing York, Sophie Weston presented her talk - Going Beyond DORA. ...

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I'm listening to TWiT live and it's reminded me to post a memory about my week in testing (MWiT) 1️⃣ I'll start with something Judy said on TWiT about how community is a great place to practice....

First Time Being a Co-Host for Ministry of Testing!

I love podcasts. I've had the privilege of being on a few of them. Today was my first day co-hosting one! I was nervous, for sure, but once I settled in, made sure I had coffee in hand, and remembe...

Don't worry! I'm a Tester Ep 94

Catch up on This Week in Testing to hear how testers make progress while figuring things out, plus much more from across the MoTaverse.

Spot the difference!

My Ministry of Testing profile has changed shape a lot over the last few months; I've earnt more community stars, been granted a professional membership from writing articles and earnt badges for r...

My Ministry of Testing profile has changed shape a lot over the last few months; I've earnt more community stars, been granted a professional membership from writing articles and earnt badges for r...

Nice one for amplifying Aj Wilson by sharing the story of how she helped one of your ex-colleagues.

Thanks for sharing a job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel. 

You can imagine my delight when I spotted this bloke in my local Waterstones bookstore. "I'm a tester, can I get a photo of your t-shirt? It is so cool!" "Sure, I'm a developer. My kids got me ...

Hello, my name is Emily O'Connor

Hello, my name is Emily O'Connor

Hello, my name is Emily! I’m travelling to TestBash from Leeds (UK) and I’d love to meet and form stronger relationships with others who are senior individual contributors. I'd love to get to k...

Hello, my name is Emily! I’m travelling to TestBash from Leeds (UK) and I’d love to meet and form stronger relationships with others who are senior individual contributors. I'd love to get to k...

Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.

At Peerscon this year, we had another RiskStorming Session to explore risks around an AI Coach. The first two phases are know to be the most valuable: 1. What are high prio Quality Aspects? ...

Using AI in Test Automation to Achieve Continuous Testing

On the slide, Titus shows the audience the trends that he has identified in the testing industry. This photo was taken when he asked the audience; “how many people here have a role where their prim...

That moment when RiskStorming explodes

At Peerscon this year, we had another RiskStorming Session to explore risks around an AI Coach. The first two phases are know to be the most valuable: 1. What are high prio Quality Aspects? ...

I for one embrace this spelling mistake. It does the job (for now). It still delivers. Funny how we can get caught up in these quality loops and pick holes in things that aren't as important as we ...

How it feels to find your first bug when you've just joined a company. There is nothing like being a pair of fresh eyes to see what everyone else is missing.

A computer, and through it's screen we see a bug on a sofa, comfy with a drink in it's hand. Above text reads: I asked the bug what it was doing there. It said "I live here now".

Was a professional member in 2025

Domestic abuse victim data stolen in Legal Aid hack

What should the ratio of automated to exploratory testing be?

Why are testers so good at delivering bad news? Ep 92

Debrief the week in testing

Thanks for sharing your idea for an addition to the "Open To ..." feature: Open To Give CV Feedback.

Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29

Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?

Exploratory testing

Not Your Average User

There's a bug on you

How to go from being a gatekeeper to being a quality coach

At the Leeds Testing Atelier I spoke about how we, as testers, can go from being gatekeepers to being quality coaches. One of the practical suggestions was to facilitate a test planning workshop wi...

Is vibe testing going to kill off test management? Ep 90