Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
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This Week in Quivering: Spooky stories, scary bugs and mystical powers — Judy Mosley, Demi Van Malcot & Shawn Vernier
A Halloween special exploring testing horror stories, quality superpowers, workplace challenges, and the importance of curiosity, communication, and community.
Leaders who build with AI: the engineering manager as product maker — Parveen Khan & Simon Tomes
Explore a problem-first approach to building with AI, where leaders make their own tools, go to the source of truth, and test what they ship.
TWiC or Treat: the otherworldly powers of community people — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes
Celebrate the hidden strengths of community people, from systems thinking and focus to listening, shipping good enough work, and building with AI.
From test management to quality management systems — Melissa Fisher & Rosie Sherry
Melissa Fisher explains quality management systems for software teams: finding friction, matching rigour to product risk, quality orchestration and reviewing your whole system as AI changes it.
The AI Risk List — Rosie Sherry
Lists of AI risks for you and your team to refer to time and time again
Your AI transformation is yours to drive — Ash Winter & Simon Tomes
What does your personal AI transformation approach look like?
Do not expect to learn fast. Find joy in the process — Oleksandr Romanov
It feels like everyone around you is learning something: taking courses, building pet projects, earning yet another certificate. LinkedIn starts to feel like a branch of Instagram, where we see a constant flow of other people that share what they’ve already learned.
Herding AI cats: What rules do you include in your Instructions to control your ai-assisted development? — Chris Chant
AI can churn out code, dead, dead fast, but that doesn't mean it's good or fit for purpose.
From Script Writer to Test Strategist — Amna Zafar
The problem nobody talks about. Writing test scripts is one of the most time-consuming parts of a QA engineer’s job, and one of the least talked about. We talk a lot about framework architecture, CI/CD integration, and coverage metrics, but far less about the hours spent writing test cases line by line, turning acceptance criteria into structured automation scripts before any actual testing has started.
This Week in Quality - We'll help you find your voice — Gary Hawkes
I love TWiQ. Whether I'm listening or joining the stage, it gives me a lift being in this supportive community. I have found friends here, friends who understand and are experiencing the same emotions and challenges that I am. This Week in Quality was the first time I put myself in front of professionals outside my workplace.
Test automation, AI and the gap between industry talk and reality — Rosie Sherry
The great thing about humanity is that we love to talk. The terrible thing about humanity is that we love to talk. Yes, I say that in jest, but we must apply our critical thinking skills to industry chatter about test automation and AI.
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Wrong arguments, duplicate calls, skipped checks. Learn how to validate every action your MCP agent takes.
📆 All upcoming events
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- Roundtable: What is like to be a solo-quality-enforcer? — Roundtable — Nov 12th
MoTaverse, in person
- Pre-MoTaCon Workshops Social — Sept 28th 2027
- MoTaCon Workshops 2027 — Sept 29th 2027
- Pre-MoTaCon Social — Sept 29th 2027
- MoTaCon 2027: 86 people already registered. Let's go!
- MoTaCon Social 2027 — Sept 30th 2027
- 🎤 MoTaCon Karaoke night 🎤 — Sept 30th 2027
MoT Chapter events
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
- TWiC, listen live or join the stage, and join the Chapter
- From Traditional to AI-powered Quality: Introducing Katalon True Platform | Katalon
- AI in Software Testing Katalon Executive Roundtable, USA 2026 | Katalon
- Hello Security World | Security Chapter
- How to Talk to AI | AI Chapter
- MoT Cincinnati - The Future of the Cincy Chapter | MoT Cincinnati
- MoT Athens #19: Chaos Testing, Contract Testing & AI Agents | MoT Athens
- AI & Software testing | Parasoft
- MoT Newcastle November meet up with Stu Day and Alex Burley | MoT Newcastle
- MoT Brighton social | MoT Brighton
- The unseen cost of quality | MoT London
- Quality for Everyone – Accessibility Testing in Practice | MoT Manchester
- The Bug World Cup 🏆 Online Edition: Find Real Bugs With AI Test Agents | Thunders
- MoT Leeds Chapter Retrospective | MoT Leeds
- Lean Lager MoT Edinburgh Social | MoT Edinburgh
- Threat Modelling Live | Security Chapter
- Test Forward'27 · Software Quality in the age of AI | Thunders
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