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Ben Dowen, a bearded man wearing grey trousers a black short sleeved tshirt, pink name badge and black cap, stands proudly infront of his own title slide that reads "Coding Challenges Prepare for Success in Technical Interviews".
2024s TestBash in Brighton, saw Ben expertly prepare a tech-test workshop for testers. Tables huddled around laptops, fixing tests, ad...
A selfie of a group of eight or so people. They have matching pink t-shirts with Ministry of Testing logos on. Some are wearing MoT branded black caps. A small bug and small duck character have been added to the photo.
Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
Rob van Steenbergen reads The Testing Planet newspaper
It's been fun to go back to our roots with The Testing Planet. Not everyone knows we first printed them back in 2012. Here's Rob van S...
A selfie of Sarah K at her first TestBash in Brighton in 2019. She is wearing a shocking bright green MoT shirt standing by the main staircase in the venue that has MoT flags hung along the bannister.
Which was your first TestBash? My first TestBash was in Brighton in 2019 after joining MoT in 2018.
A meme titled "Tester’s Life" hilariously contrasts two views:

Reality: A chaotic barcode of black (testing) and gray (everything else testers actually do—like meetings, bug triage, and wondering why things are on fire).

What People Think: Mostly black, because apparently, all we do is “run tests” and sprinkle in some gray for coffee breaks.

Legend: Black = "Executing Tests," Gray = "Other Stuff" (aka the real MVP of a tester’s day).

Testers do everything, but somehow, all anyone notices is the part where we hit "run" on a test case. Classic paradox.

Reality: A chaotic blend of tasks—meetings that could've been emails, deciphering cryptic bug reports, convincing developers that “it's not a feature, it's a bug,” and occasionally running tests when the universe aligns.

What People Think: "Oh, you're a tester? So, you just, like, click buttons all day, right?" Sure, Rahul, that's exactly it. Clicking buttons and living the dream. Meanwhile, the real "other stuff" includes saving the project from exploding and translating developer-speak into plain English.

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

Yes, a bit of tongue and cheek, not to be taken too seriously, but also memes are a way of self expression. And this is my way of sharing that I'm excited for STEC and all the professional software testers who are contributing to it. It feels like a course that truly welcomes people into our much loved profession.

https://www.ministryoftesting.com/certifications/mot-software-testing-essentials-certificate

Rosie Sherry
Rosie Sherry
A road marking with the words Ceep Klear on it.

I for one embrace this spelling mistake. It does the job (for now). It still delivers. Funny how we can get caught up in these quality loops and pick holes in things that aren't as important as we think. Image source and story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3mzlp022o

Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
Part of Buckingham Palace in London. The main sign reads “The King’d Gallery”. The sign on the side reads “The Queen’s Gallery”.

An app rebrand is quite the testing task. New logos, themes and colours to check everywhere. Sometimes a rebrand can't be done with a big-bang approach.

I spotted this on a walk next to Buckingham Palace and wondered if they raised the bug as "Will not fix" or if they just made it a P3 and stuck it back on the bug backlog for later. I feel the main stakeholder wouldn't be too impressed with that prioritisation decision. 😉

Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
 
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