The business began as a free online forum for software testers, run for several years before any revenue model existed.

The first conference, TestBash, was hosted in 2012 with around 70 attendees, and became the community's first real revenue-generating product.

Demand for the event kept pulling the format into new cities; the community itself asked for more events rather than the business pushing them.

Local testers repeatedly asked for TestBash to come to their region, and the company followed that demand into new markets.

In 2018, the team launched TestBash Essentials, a new one-day conference aimed at people newer to software testing, alongside the existing flagship TestBash format.

“Within it we also announced TestBash Essentials - a new one day conference from Team MoT focused on more introductory ideas in software testing.”

The new format was created after noticing the existing conference talks were not serving newer, less experienced testers as well as they served veterans.

“TestBashes have become renowned for our great talks (and other things too), but what I've personally noticed over time are the needs of different people.”