About us
The Ministry of Testing exists to advance the software testing industry in a fun, safe, professional and forward thinking way.
Our meetups exist as a way to bring people together to talk and learn about good and authentic testing. We encourage everyone who is interested in making better software products to come along and participate.
If you are a tester or interested in testing in the Cambridge area, UK, then join and keep notified about any events happening in your area. We have a passionate and enthusiastic local community of all levels of experiences and industries.
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Upcoming events
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1st Meetup 2026 - 2 Incredible Speakers
The Bradfield Centre, 184 Cambridge Science Park Rd, Milton, Cambridge, GB📅 Testing the Untestable: Infinite Systems & Weird Data
🗓️ Tuesday, 3rd February 2026
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 Venue: Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park
We’re back!
Join us for the first Cambridge Testing Chapter of 2026.
🚨 Register for the event over in the MoTaverse these meetups groups in Meetup are closing down. 🚨Note: The persentations will be held in the auditorium (down the corridor on the right hand side when you enter the building).
Agenda:
🍕 6:00 – 6:25 PM – Welcome drinks & pizza
🗣 6:25 – 7:00 PM – ==Infinite Loop * Infinite Space== - James Thomas
🗣 7:00 – 8:30 PM – Data quality is weird - Bob SalmonPrestention 1 by James Thomas: Infinite Loop * Infinite Space
How can we test software effectively when everything is subject to change, all the time?
Even if we assume stability for a moment, how can we cover the vast range of inputs, outputs, and product behaviours that any non-trivial application supports in a context where anything might have just changed?
In this talk I'll expand on that challenge and describe a tool I've built to help me address it for the product I'm working on at the moment. It combines aspects of model-based testing, property-based testing, and observability to take random paths through the application making assertions about its behaviour and generating rich data sets for post-hoc analysis.
The tool extends my exploratory testing capabilities by letting me ask all kinds of questions, in particular about things that it would be impractical to try investigate by hand because of the size of the state space of the system under test. It's not a substitute for standard regression testing but it is a powerful complement to it, and I often explore the product myself while it is running, unnattended, in the background on my behalf.
James Thomas
James is a software tester based in Cambridge but currently working for a German company, Ada Health, on a medical symptom checking application. He has been blogging about testing and software development at Hiccupps since 2011.
https://ada.com/
https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/Presentation 2 by Bob Salmon: Data quality is weird
The talk is about the quality of data and the pipelines that produce it. It starts with looking at software quality and then compares that to data quality. No prior experience with SQL etc. is needed. If you have ever had your teeth set on edge by some dodgy data, come and find out how that might have been prevented.
Bob Salmon
Bob Salmon is an accomplished Senior Software Developer, who "likes people, code and data. That means I think that things like quality and user experience are important too."
Read more of Bob's thoughts on his blog: https://randomtechthoughts.blog/2 attendees
Past events
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