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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
📻 How do you document feedback on your documentation? Ep 91 of This Week in Testing. Join co-hosts Oleksandr Romanov and Demi Van Malcot as they explore the tester's role as a quality coach, knowledge-sharing strategies, challenges in testing automation (Playwright) and why documentation matters. Plus, we celebrate community contributions, from writing a first article to supporting newcomers.
I'm too happy to have Rahul Parwal as a Speaker! 🇹🇳
🎧 Join Gary Shannon and Charmaine Short: Breaking Barriers: Oculus, the Metaverse, and the Diversity Disconnect.
About the Time I Bought Myself the Greatest Gift: Time by Antonella Scaravilli.
TestBash super early bird pricing is coming to an end on May 31st, in the run up to it, we created a couple of docs that might be helpful to communicate the learning extravaganza to your budget holder. You'll find them on the TestBash event page.
My first experience of the Leeds Testing Atelier and curiosity about notetaking.
Emily presenting from Muggle to Magician at MoT Barcelona Meetup. 🇪🇸
“A huge thank you to everyone who came along — it might have been our highest turnout yet! 🙌” Glad to hear it, Teresa Reynolds. 🇬🇧
All it takes is a raised hand. 🙋
147 members have received at least one community star or more in May. It's broken all previous monthly records. Sensational! 🤩
Career Growth
Plenty of courses, but which one to choose? 🤔
💼 My Job Hunt – A Game of Rejections, Rewrites & Resilience by Dalbir Sehmbi.
Get your work recognized: write a brag document by Julia Evans. We also recommend building up your MoT Profile page. Find the link on your My MoT page.
Software Testing Careers: The Roadmap by Oleksandr Romanov for MoT Tunis.
Grab your ticket to TestBash after looking at this handy Learning Outcomes Brochure 🧑🏫. We also recently launched the Digital TestBash MoTebook 📓.
What’s stopping you from making your work and achievements more visible? asks Cassandra H. Leung. Share your reflections and support their TestBash talk preparation.
ICYDK: We often shared job adverts in the MoT Slack and on the MoT job board. Plus, these professional members are open to work.
Essentials
🥞 New collection: 52 software testing types. 😮
Ben Dowen shares his experiences with establishing exploratory testing using regular collaborative practice.
"When you join a team or project as the lone tester who is accountable for The Quality of Everything (tm), one of your first jobs is to build a mental model of what "everything" actually is and where things currently stand." The Lone Tester: Surviving and Thriving as The First QA Hire by Susanne Abdelrahman.
Mike Talks shares the challenges of being your team’s sole tester.
Do you remember a time when you prevented an issue?
“A question I don’t seem to be able to let go of is: where does a tester fit into a software development team? More specifically, how essential are testers to the team?” wonders Joep Schuurkes.
Definitions you can add to: Personas and Definition of ready (DoR).
Paul would like to know: Do you see testers signing off on something as tested and ready to release?
STEC is different to other certificates like ISTQB, BBST and many others. And we’re proud to offer something different. “Should I get a testing certificate?” can polarise, yet STEC is here to harmonise. There is simply nothing else like it.
Leading with Quality
How Capital One empowers teams to manage and use data.
“The aim of the academy is to provide consistent, structured and fun training for everyone across tech to learn more about Quality and how to achieve it continuously through the enablers of people, process, tools and outcomes.” Celebrating The Launch Of Our "This is Quality" Academy at Capital One. Great work, Stuart Day, Thomas Fisher, Iain McKinlay, Paul Wilson and more!
Leading while learning. Why great managers don’t have all the answers.
How can leaders set up a healthy work environment?
The Goldilocks Guide to Leadership by Marissa Goldberg.
Adaptive Leadership in Action: What Sets Great Leaders Apart.
How to become a more connected leader by Peter Boyd.
Back in 2022 we ran TestBash Leadership. Plenty of leading with quality examples to be found!
Quality Engineering
One of the best threads I’ve read this year. Loved the different takes, experiences, dialogue and genuine discussion on what makes QE an emerging field now. If only other forums could be as great as this thread. Nice one, Jessica.
Quality Coaching
Kat Obring shares how to go from being a gatekeeper to being a quality coach.
Continuous Quality
"Just completed the course "A tester's role in continuous quality". Great insights on how quality is a shared responsibility across the whole team - not just testers. Big thanks to Ministry of Testing for creating and putting together this insightful course!" We're glad you enjoyed it, Yulia Artiukhova. Thanks for sharing!
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Accessibility
Michael Kennedy shares empathy lessons for software testers. Discover how hands-on empathy labs and cross-team collaboration lead to more inclusive, user-focused software: Preparing for the European Accessibility Act.
Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome.
Definition: The European Accessibility Act (EAA).
Tooling
🛠️ Tool of the week: Tricentis
Monitoring
Has anyone used synthetic monitoring for production smoke tests? asks Parveen Khan.
Automation
Bug congrats to Cassandra H. Leung for earning a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. 🏆
Is Selenium still a tool you consider for test automation? asks tester123456.
Coding
The Art of Maintainable GPU Programming by Jan Aarsaether.
How GitHub engineers learn new codebases.
A Practical Guide to Indexing JSON in MySQL.
Writing that changed how I think about Programming Languages by Max Bernstein.
API Testing
New course: API Mocking made easy with Jose Carrera. Create fully mocked APIs quickly—with realistic, randomised data and customisable responses for faster, more reliable testing with fewer blockers. 🆕
Security
Generative AI apps and integrations are growing fast and so are the injection attacks. This time it's through harmless-looking plain text, aka prompts. Prompt injections: A new opportunity for testers.
CVE — Program is to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
AI
Trends in Testing 2025 – How TestBench supports modern test processes.
AI Testing Expedition: Practical Insights from Rahul Parwal's 30-Day Journey.
"Another day, another round of hype about how AI will revolutionize software development. Tools promising faster code generation, shorter development cycles, and “one-click” features dominate the headlines. But here’s the thing: shipping faster doesn’t mean shipping better." – Alessandra Moreira.
Developments in AI need to be properly regulated as the world scrambles for advantage.
Tehhp argues there are too many AI tools and not enough guidance. They offer a vision for a centralised prompt repository from QE perspective.
Adam Zewe explains Generative AI’s environmental impact.
Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders.
The Augmented Tester: How AI is Transforming the Tester's Profession by Tarek Temimi (Ar).
My AI Prompt Engineering Playbook for Developers.
“Life feels edgy. Amidst the hype of AI. In a downmarket. Where companies are rushing to adopt AI on scale. During a time where the technology behind MCPs and Agentic AI is being touted as the next big thing. With the worry that all of this combined may lead to the loss of everyone's job. It can be easy to feel somewhat on edge about the future of, well, quite simply, everything.” A compelling read from Rosie Sherry.
Meta’s Full-stack HHVM optimizations for GenAI.
Do you use saved prompts in your day-to-day Testing with AI workflow?
How do you test that something is AI generated?
Just for fun
The perfect desk mat for a QE doesn’t exi…
There's a bug on you — essential volunteer refreshments, an hour before the start of TestBash Brighton 2024.
🗓️ Events
Keep checking the events page for the most up-to-date info.
- Leeds Meetup Thu 29 May 🇬🇧
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 29 May 🇺🇸
- This Week in Testing Fri 30 May 🎙️
- Ghana Meetup Sat 31 May 🇺🇸
- Vancouver Meetup Sun 1 Jun 🇨🇦
- Tunis Meetup Sat 14 Jun 🇹🇳
- Milan Meetup Mon 16 Jun 🇮🇹
- Software Testing Live Wed 18 Jun 🔎
- Valencia Meetup Thu 19 Jun 🇪🇸
- Athens Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇷
- London Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇧
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇺🇸
- Plymouth Meetup Wed 9 Jul 🇬🇧
- Software Testing Live Wed 16 Jul 🔎
- Leading with Quality Tue 30 Sep 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🚀
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