A look at what Team MoT has shipped this year

Rob van Steenbergen reads The Testing Planet newspaper

Piper (Rosie Sherry's daughter) attends TestBash. She's about 18 months. She's sitting on the stairs giving Sarah Kitchener a look.

The lines between testing and quality are blurring

Early bird pricing ends 22nd of December, the perfect Christmas bonus

A meme with a queue of people for STEC, and no queue for ISTQB.

It’s not all about years of experience

A lego box for STEC, with astronauts and space theme.

A collection of photos from when we did TestBash Match, a community conference challenge where people had to discover something they had in common with each other.

The answer is yes, no and it's complicated

We're polling the testing community to gain an understanding of the current job market

Professional Members can now mark themselves as Open to Work

Test reporting, planning, and documentation

Creating a regression testing strategy, manual, visual or automated

An exploration of the skills required by software testing and quality professionals

Mobile testing, mobile automation, mobile testing frameworks

Managing testing, test management and organizing testing

We're doing more to shine stars upon the software testing community

A photo of Rosie Shery, smiling, wearing dark rimmed glasses, she has her thumbs up and is wearing a black t-shirt with the word 'testing' on it in a rainbow theme.

A fresh feature available now for Professional Members

Stories, guides, lessons and resources to help you with creating your test charters

Fujistu boss does not know if Horizon is reliable. Photo of said boss, surrounded by bugs.

Where do you go to learn about it?

A collection of the Open to Work Testing Trends we are conducting within MoT.

We also take a look at some green flags

Share your experience with the community

Your contributions to this software testing community matter

Two very good people, Jenna Charlton and Diana Dromey, give a sidehug and a big smile for the camera.

Make your vote and community commentary count.

A guide and deck of cards to help explore risk analysis and quality strategy

Where is AI and software testing heading? Learn from the professionals!

You've got about 10 words, explain something about what it is we do.

A man on a busy street holding up a sign saying "You can find problems in software for a living"

99 risks with the advancement of software testing an AI

Software testers share their recent experience of salaries

This image is a meme featuring a character from the TV show The Office, specifically Jim Halpert, who is shown giving a presentation in two frames. In the top frame, he points to a whiteboard that says, "When a type of bug is seen more than once." In the bottom frame, he reveals the full whiteboard message: "Call it a syndrome," with Jim looking at the camera with a satisfied expression. This meme humorously suggests that recurring issues, like software bugs, should be classified as "syndromes" after they've been observed more than once, poking fun at how some problems are frequently reoccurring.

A look at what the people are saying about quality engineering

The UK is waking up to shocking 13,508 mph wind warnings and overnight 404C temperatures

A three-image collage humorously illustrating the software development process, comparing it to making a pizza shaped like a Minion. Planning (Top Left): The dough is neatly shaped into the outline of a Minion, representing the initial design phase where the team outlines clear requirements and specifications for the product. Development (Top Right): The Minion is decorated with toppings like cheese and pepperoni, symbolizing the development phase where features are implemented. The Minion still looks promising, similar to how software development progresses toward the intended outcome. Production (Bottom Right): After baking, the Minion has lost much of its original shape and details, a humorous analogy for how the final product sometimes turns out after real-world constraints like testing, integration issues, or deployment challenges. This stage highlights the importance of quality assurance and thorough testing to ensure that the product aligns with initial expectations.

A male TestBash attendee wearing a dark jacket and jeans is holding a mid range yellow plush duck. Through his black beard he is showing a hint of smile.

A pink, purple braclet with two stars and the word 'bugs' on it.

A photo of four attendees from TestBash at OHSO Social venue. They are looking very merry and smiling at the camera. It was getting late. Rosie in particular felt very relieved the end was close.

A photo of a very big yellow plushie duck with a name tag that says "My name is Rosie Sherry".

A hard back notebook painted by myself with paint pens. The back cover is black with a MoT planet logo. The binding says Rosie with rainbow colours in the background. The front has a blue sky and 3 white clouds.

For those who have been looking for a new role: What are you seeing in terms of compensation on offer? Bonus points for any added community commentary.

A row of printed The Testing Planet newspapers.

A photo of Simon Rigler sitting in the audience at TestBash Brighton holding up the newspaper "pretending" to read. 😃

TestBash is not just a conference, it's one node in community journey and software testing growth

3 people sitting at a table posing whilst reading The Testing Planet newspaper.

The MoT planet (from the logo) upsidedown that looks like a happy person with a hat, or an angelic happy person, depending how you see it.

4 testers and Diana Dromey sitting around a table with drinks at the post TestBash social

Testers having dinner at the final TestBash social.

A black and white photo of Rosie Sherry's wrist with an MoT logo tattoo on it.

On the left is Chris Chant. On the right is Dan Billing giving Chris a kiss on the cheek. Chris has a big grin.

A display stand with a variety of ducks on show. A Postman duck. A silver duck. A cloud duck. A space duck.

Have a browse of our upcoming community-led meetups

A book called "Well, that didn't work. An Autobirography." with "by a software tester" is edited into the cover.

You know you are a tester when the office loses power and everyone looks to see what you did — Quote via Phil Kirkham

The boundaries of software testers are blurred, what should we aspire to learn about CI/CD?

Two-panel software testing meme featuring Bart Simpson from The Simpsons. In the top panel, Bart is depicted wearing sunglasses and using a white cane as if he's blind, with the text 'Testers executing detailed protocols and reporting no more bugs..' The bottom panel shows Bart peering through a large telescope with a surprised expression, and the text reads 'Random user casually reports 10+ bugs on 1st day of production release..' The background settings include a school hallway in the top panel and Bart's room in the bottom panel.

Two-panel meme featuring the rapper Drake. The top panel shows Drake wearing a red jacket with a displeased expression, holding his hand up as if rejecting something. The text next to him reads '2015: Test Driven Development.' The bottom panel shows Drake with a pleased expression, pointing approvingly towards the text '2024: AI Driven Development.' The background is yellow in both panels.

A software testing meme playing the Oasis reunion. They reunited over their love of Mnemonics... 
O - Observe A - Analyse S - Stress I - Interact S - Simplify Two rubber ducks with hair style like the Gallagher brothers

Memes are culture, they are a language, they are a learning tool

This image is a meme featuring two panels, each with a different facial expression of the same person. The left panel shows the person with a displeased or disgusted expression, labelled "UNHELPFUL FEEDBACK," while the right panel shows the person with a more neutral or slightly positive expression, labeled "CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK." This meme humorously contrasts the reactions to receiving unhelpful versus constructive feedback, illustrating the difference in how such feedback is perceived.

No matter how small or big, change comes in all shapes and sizes.

We’re excited to announce that the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate

A two-panel meme image featuring cats on the left and text on the right. The top panel shows a grumpy-looking gray cat with the text 'Going to Work' on a white background. The bottom panel shows a happy, laughing gray cat with the text 'Learning that I can be a tester on www.ministryoftesting.com' on a white background.

A brat inspired mot brand, inspired by the brat thing: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/22/entertainment/charli-xcx-kamala-harris-brat-meme

We've evolved our popular weekly This Week in Testing (TWiT) LinkedIn radio show!

An image of a swiss army knife that list everything that MoT does.

A collection of resources to help guide testing with Playwright

A look inside at how we're supporting the software testing and quality engineering industry

A wake-up call for software testers

Back in 2013 we introduced 99 Second Talks to TestBash, it has helped so many testers find their way into public speaking

Learn test automation from the community of software testers!

Let's go exploring how to test software in production

Join us for The Testing Planet Episode 4, The Practitioner

Testing Trends is an exclusive offering wrapped into Ministry of Testing Professional and Unlimited Membership

The Apprentice edition of The Testing Planet is coming, submit to support the next generation of software testers

We recently launched Continuous Call for Contributions, here's an update

How do we select, use and think about the software testing tools we use?

VR, Virtual Reality and The Metaverse

Ministry of Testing is evolving to be the space to level up your professional software testing career.

Learn what quality engineering means for software testing professionals

How can DevOps and Software Testing be besties?

Software testers should never feel lonely, at Ministry of Testing we are here to support you at every step of your journey.

Ideas to support your bug reporting and exploratory testing efforts

Mentorship, hiring, onboarding, career guidance and more!

Join Simon Tomes and his team of global correspondents in this engaging episode of The Testing Planet

Resources and talks on accessibility testing

Uncover the truth behind automation's role in testing and its impact on testers

Learn about the latest trends and challenges in test automation

TLDR; After many requests, we've restarted our Slack, but this time we're doing things differently.

Test automation gets a lot of our attention, but does it get adopted as much as we think?

Learn how to think and do testing with AI, LLM's and Machine Learning

Asking questions is a real software testing skill, how can we become better at it?

Applying community principles to learning and software testing certification.

How do I do exploratory testing? What is exploratory testing? What exploratory testing tools should I use? What dummy sites can I use for manual exploratory testing? This collection hopes to have answers to all your exploratory testing needs.

It takes a village to create a conference

Are you an aspiring software testing leader? Come and learn from others who have climbed that mountain.

Listen to ReTestBash's 99 Second Talks

Understand the challenges community builders face and how to overcome them

Software Testing Planning Checklist to help you think about your project, identify potential gaps and give new ideas to approach your testing

Read our Community Thoughts: ​​99 Things You Can Do To Become A Better Software Tester v2.0 by Rosie Sherry

30 Days of Automation in Testing Challenge... let's do this!

Join the 30 Days of Agile Testing challenge from Ministry of Testing!

Take part in our 30 Days of Accessibility Testing Challenge!

We asked the testing community what was involved in their software testing roles and this is what they told us.

Got a few spare minutes? Come and read the best of The Testing Planet archive from Ministry of Testing

Got a few spare minutes? Come and read how the original monster tester types came to be

Got a few spare minutes? Come and read the best of The Testing Planet archive from Ministry of Testing