This Week in Quality

Judy and Simon host a thoughtful 'This Week in Therapy' episode, with Judy reflecting on her first few weeks in a new role and the difference between building quality from scratch versus stepping into processes someone...

Simon and Demi open with MoTaCon updates, including the growing 'festival' around the conference, socials, dinners, Motography, and the reminder to show up as yourself. The episode then celebrates the newly-updated...

Simon breaks format by taking This Week in Quality on a live tour of the MoTaverse homepage, highlighting recent moments, sessions, glossary entries, Observatory links, AI chapter growth, and the new profile page beta...

Rosie and Demi co-host episode 144, opening with Demi’s week of database drama after another team dropped a table in their test environment and accidentally blocked critical test data. They reflect on recent MoTaverse...

Ben and Judy host episode 143, opening with Judy’s reflections on testing job applications, staying connected through the community, and finding joy even in a difficult job market. Ben shares his current focus on...

Simon and Demi host a high-energy wins episode, starting with Demi’s week of intense data testing and Simon’s reflections on recent MoTaverse milestones, including Diana’s first 10K, 45 Call for Insights, new company...

Simon kicks off this Hot Takes edition with a tour through recent MoTaverse updates, including career growth resources, motivation, quality tooling silos, AI’s impact on definitions of ready/done, and new learning...

Simon and Judy open with updates from the MoTaverse, including the Leading with AI event, new moments from the community, Women in Testing, and a Software Testing Live session on risk. The main conversation explores the...

Simon and Demi reflect on the second video-enabled episode of This Week in Quality, with plenty of live experimentation, technical glitches, and community challenges along the way. The conversation ranges from new...

This Week in Quality enters a new, cameras-on format - complete with connection glitches and live tool testing! The main theme is high value activities: how experienced quality folks identify the work that creates...

<p>Episode 137 of This Week in Quality opens with playful banter about heat, workshops vs meetings, and the reality of notification fatigue. The conversation quickly heats up with hot takes on “done is better than...

<p>What does it really mean to write clean code? And does it even matter if nobody uses your product? This week, Demi and Simon explore the tensions between readability, legacy codebases, and shipping something that...

<p>In this episode of This Week in Quality, host Simon Tomes is joined by Shawn Vernier and Ady Stokes to explore how epistemology – the philosophy of knowledge – shapes everyday testing and quality decisions. Drawing...

<p>Ady kicks things off with a reminder that we don’t celebrate ourselves enough, then invites everyone to share their weekly wins. Simon highlights two fresh Call for Insights launches (with Lauren Lassie and Gary...

<p>Co-hosts Simon and Oleksandr theme the episode around influencing without authority, inspired by Suzanne Abdurahman’s work on influence in the Software Quality Engineering Certificate and recent community...