🚀 MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate is here! Early bird ends 22nd December 2024!

Welcome to the Ministry of Testing

Explore Membership

Quality engineer: What’s in a job title? image

Quality engineer: What’s in a job title?

Discover how adopting a quality engineering approach empowers testers to solve problems and improve experiences for everyone across the SDLC

This Week in Testing - Episode 61 - 27 September, 2024 image

This Week in Testing - Episode 61 - 27 September, 2024

Building product-specific test strategies that go beyond “best practices” image

Building product-specific test strategies that go beyond “best practices”

Tester Obsolescence: How to Compete in a Modern QA Job Market image

Tester Obsolescence: How to Compete in a Modern QA Job Market

Open to Work: October 2024 image

Open to Work: October 2024

New! The Open to Work Database

Raise your profile: MoT Weekly – Issue 494

Newsletter Issue

Creating a personalised learning schedule with an AI assistant

Testing Planet Session

New! Everyone can now get an MoT Profile

Upcoming Events

Explore All Events

Episode Seven: The community's guide to Continuous Quality image

Episode Seven: The community's guide to Continuous Quality

Wed, 27 Nov

The trend towards continuous quality, rather than shift left

TestBash Brighton 2025 image

TestBash Brighton 2025

Wed, 1 Oct 2025

On the 1st & 2nd of October, 2025 we'll be back to Brighton for another TestBash: the largest software testing conference in the UK

This Week in Testing image

This Week in Testing

Fri, 29 Nov

Debrief the week in testing via a LinkedIn radio show

Leiria Meetup image

Leiria Meetup

Thu, 21 Nov

A joint Meetup event happening in Leiria

Vancouver Meetup image

Vancouver Meetup

Sun, 24 Nov

QA TrailTalks: Bi-Weekly Walking Vancouver Meetup

Myths, cognitive biases and mental sets in QA image

Myths, cognitive biases and mental sets in QA

Mon, 25 Nov

Let's overcome myths and biases, leading to better decisions and, ultimately, better quality

This Week in Testing image

This Week in Testing

Fri, 22 Nov

Debrief the week in testing via a LinkedIn radio show

Leeds Meetup image

Leeds Meetup

Thu, 28 Nov

Into the future with MoT Leeds

Athens Meetup image

Athens Meetup

Thu, 28 Nov

Join the MoT 14th Athens Meetup

Ministry of Testing Meetups image

Ministry of Testing Meetups

We are a global community with member-led local software testing focused meetups.

The membership for software testing professionals image

The membership for software testing professionals

Join thousands of other software testers in levelling up their careers

Partner with MoT Today! image

Partner with MoT Today!

Reach the most active and respected software testing community

Qase — Test reports you’ll love to share image

Qase — Test reports you’ll love to share

Don’t test in the dark. Our sharable, customizable dashboards help QA teams analyze and report on testing data quicker and with deeper insights.

Testing Trends

Explore All Trends

Open to Work: October 2024 image

Open to Work: October 2024

What’s a red flag for hiring a software tester? image

What’s a red flag for hiring a software tester?

Half of testers think prompting will impact test case design image

Half of testers think prompting will impact test case design

6 things folks are doing in communities of practice image

6 things folks are doing in communities of practice

TestBash Sessions

Explore TestBash 2024

Enhancing Test Automation with Playwright and AI: A Journey of Innovation image

Enhancing Test Automation with Playwright and AI: A Journey of Innovation

Responsible AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Testers image

Responsible AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Testers

Embracing Empathy: A Framework for Modern Test Leadership image

Embracing Empathy: A Framework for Modern Test Leadership

Quality Statements for LLMs: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly image

Quality Statements for LLMs: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Club Topics

Explore The Club

How do you know if you’re adding value as an individual or as a team? image

How do you know if you’re adding value as an individual or as a team?

You’ve been set the task of learning about Continuous Quality image

You’ve been set the task of learning about Continuous Quality

Are software testers responsible for continuous quality? image

Are software testers responsible for continuous quality?

Do you want to learn more about Continuous Quality? image

Do you want to learn more about Continuous Quality?

On Demand Courses

Explore All Courses

Prompting for Testers image

Prompting for Testers

Improving Your Testing Through Operability image

Improving Your Testing Through Operability

Cognitive Biases In Software Testing image

Cognitive Biases In Software Testing

A Software Tester’s Guide To Chrome Devtools image

A Software Tester’s Guide To Chrome Devtools

Certifications

MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image

MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate

MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation image

MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation

MoT Intermediate Certificate in Test Automation image

MoT Intermediate Certificate in Test Automation

MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation image

MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation

Memories

Explore All Memories

Ben Dowen, Jenna Charlton and Karen Todd

Meeting these two amazing humans outside our hotel

Ben Dowen

I found Jenna Charlton and Karen Todd as I arrived at the hotel in Brighton

This was taken on the first day of TestBash Brighton 2024.

Sunset in Brighton Pier

Nikoleta Koumpouzi

Ministry of Testing Athens in Thessaloniki

Ministry of Testing Athens in Thessaloniki

Petros Plakogiannis

MoT Athens held its first meetup in Northern Greece, in the city of Thessaloniki, with 200 attendees

A large crowd of people gathered in a grand event space. Lots of conversations are happening. A duck and bug character are hiding.

Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 5

Simon Tomes

Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).

Memes

Explore All Memes

A red car on grass, build together with different car parts

Integration test "passed"

Peet Michielsen

Spiders are the onyl web developers in the world who love finding bugs

the only web developers in the world who love finding bugs

Demi Van Malcot

A two-panel Futurama Fry squinting meme. In the top panel, the text reads 'Add tests, Implement feature' followed by 'All Tests passed' in green. In the bottom panel, it shows 'Make changes, Run tests' followed by 'All Tests passed' in green. In both panels, Fry has a suspicious, skeptical expression, implying distrust of the consistently passing tests despite code changes.

When your tests are passing but something feels off... 🤔

Christine Pinto

A chart with four columns labelled A, B, C, and D. The first column contains various testing-related terms like "software testers," "exploratory testing," and "the testing community." The second column contains verbs like "wanted to," "requested to," and "declined to." The third column contains words like "praise," "argue with," and "collaborate." The fourth column contains nouns like "developers," "product managers," and "designers." The image encourages users to combine elements from each column to create their own fictional "tester revelations." The image also includes the website ministryoftesting.com.

Tester Revelations

Simon Tomes