👋 Welcome to April’s issue of MoT Monthly. Once a month we share a round-up of how the MoTaverse has expanded. Let’s go! 🚀
🆙 Product and Community updates
Our small team has been working hard to ship continuously. Here’s what we’ve been working on:
- There’s now a handy PDF for people to dig deeper into the benefits of a professional membership. Read it online too.
- TestSphere expands in the MoTaverse — it's now available digitally
- We’ve launched a new exclusive in-person event for Quality Leaders: Leading with Quality
- The TestBash Brighton 2025 Lineup is HERE! 🎉
- Photo memories can now be added to collections. Check out the SeleniumConf 2025, Valencia, Spain collection, what collections of photos would you consider creating?
- Professional members can now add external links in the MoTaverse – to showcase your helpful blog posts, podcasts, videos and more. They can even show up on profile pages. For example, look at Alessandra Moreira’s profile page.
- We now publish our weekly Radio Show, This Week in Testing (TWiT), as a podcast on the same day. Find it on your favourite podcast app.
🗓️ Join these events
Keep checking the events page for the most up-to-date info.
- Munich Meetup Wed 9 Apr 🇩🇪
- Leiria Meetup Thu 10 Apr 🇵🇹
- This Week in Testing Fri 11 Apr 🎙️
- Ghana Meetup Tue 12 Apr 🇬🇭
- Munich Meetup Tue 15 Apr 🇩🇪
- Software Testing Live Wed 23 Apr 🔎
- London Meetup Thu 8 May 🇬🇧
- Coventry Meetup Thu 8 May 🇬🇧
- Leeds Testing Atelier Tue 13 May 🇬🇧
- Manchester Meetup Thu 15 May 🇬🇧
- Newcastle Meetup Tue 20 May 🇬🇧
- Software Testing Live Wed 18 Jun 🔎
- Software Testing Live Wed 16 Jul 🔎
- Leading with Quality Tue 30 Sep 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🚀
All recorded events are added to the Ministry of Testing catalogue. Professional members have access to the entire catalogue of learning material. 🤩
🥞 Collections
- The Community’s Guide to Test Environments
- The Community's Guide to Pair Testing
- A first time for everything
- The Testing Planet News
- An exploration of test design
- The Community's Guide to Quality Coaching
🎓 Certifications
The MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC) gives junior testers confidence, community and connections. A true alternative to ISTQB, STEC is a modern introduction to the world of testing software. It features knowledge-filled lessons from trusted software testing industry experts. Module 9 - Exploring test design and Module 10 - Doing the testing work are now available.
🎓 Articles and Testing Trends
- 10 ways to test iOS apps across different states and lifecycle stages by Boris Dobretsov
- Want some CANDY? Creating a culture of fabulous feedback by Judy Mosley
- From tester to decision-maker: Carving your path in quality leadership by Alessandra Moreira
- 73% of us haven’t used GenAI pair testing as a testing strategy, yet.
- A software tester’s guide to the art of mocking by Stefan Dirnstorfer
- The future is agile, or is it?
- Testing cloud applications without breaking the bank: Testcontainers and LocalStack by Fernando Teixeira
Express yourself through writing. Share your thoughts, ideas and stories with the community via an MoT article. Share an idea for an article. 📝
🖼️ Memes and memories
Photo memories and memes create history and stories.
Help expand the MoTaverse. Add one today.
🎤 Talks
- Software Testing Live: episode 01 - Breaking the bank with Ben Dowen and Rahul Parwal
- Top ways to get involved with Ministry of Testing with Tom Game
- What do people mean when they say "automation is a tool"? with Emily O’Connor
- Software Testing Live: episode 02 - Access All areas with Ben Dowen and Jane D’Cruze
- 4.04 Superpowers of a Quality Coach with Christine Pinto
- Quality Coaching in the wild: when theory hits reality with Anne-Marie Charrett
- Supernova Showdown: the realities of Quality Coaching models with Aj Wilson, Ben Dowen, Clare Norman and Shweta Jaju
- Cosmic conversation: the possibilities of Quality Coaching with Callum-Akehurst Ryan and Kat Obring
- Exploring Systems Thinking - The Testing Planet News - Episode 09 with Simon Tomes, Sarah Byng, Mike Harris and Rachel Kibler
View the talks database and all The Testing Planet sessions.
Do you have a talk idea? Submit one today. If something doesn’t fit our current events schedule, we can record it with you and publish it on the MoT site.
🔥 Hot topics
Join the conversation on The Club, our dedicated forum for all testing, QA and Quality Engineering professionals.
- A list of MoT Profile Badges
- ✨AMA: MoT Professional Membership
- Why do you share your journey in tech?
- Poor preparation in software testing can lead to
- What’s your current definition of software testing?
- Selective Working: What do you choose not to do?
- What small language shifts have made a difference?
- What can we do to avoid burnout in the QA/QE field?
- QE, QC, Tester, QA Engineer, don’t they do the same things?
- What AI-powered testing tools have you found to be most impactful in your work?
📚 Glossary updates
Glossary definitions that you can add to. Expand the MoTaverse, Professional members can add their own definitions. ✍️
- Quality Characteristics
- Quality Engineering
- Technical Debt
- Pair testing
- Leadership
- Bug Bash
- Lovability
- TestBash
- Context
- … plus many more
🪐 Continuous Call for Contributions
Expand the MoTaverse! Share your stories and support everyone's career growth. Talks, articles, meetups, conversations, courses and more! Submit an idea today.
What could you pick from this list? Discover how we recognise individual contributions to the community.
🤝 Let's connect
We're committed to connecting testers, quality engineers and QAs no matter what challenges the world brings us. Here are the safe and inspiring spaces we provide and curate for the software testing, QA and quality engineering people: MoT Slack, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, The Club, TikTok and Mastodon.
⭐️ Professional membership
Join this Ask Me Anything thread to ask MoT CEO and founder, Rosie Sherry, any question about our professional membership.
An MoT Professional Membership is available to advance the software testing and quality engineering. Download a handy Professional Membership Overview PDF to share with your manager or someone you know who would benefit from signing up today.
♾️ Simplicity with Unlimited Membership
A lot is going on at Ministry of Testing, and our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to access everything we do. We’ve seen how much of a stumbling block getting sign-off for budgets can be. To address this we’ve packaged everything up into one annual, much-reduced price and Unlimited membership. What do we mean by ‘everything’?
- Everything included in your professional membership plus
- Attend any TestBash and Leading with Quality event (if in a leadership role)
- Get certified with any of our 3 Test Automation Certification Courses
- Be the first to access and get certified with our Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC)
- Any certification, event or TestBash we launch in the future.
That’s over £3,000 in value for just £1,499 (+ tax) a year. Go Unlimited. ♾️
👋 That’s all for now. Have a good month and we’ll see you around the MoTaverse.
Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
