Podcast Episode 41 – Onboarding Testers

Thank you for joining us again. On this episode, we discuss our experience with onboarding new members to our teams. We spend time talking about the good and bad things that have happened and suggest ideas to make the onboarding processes as smooth as possible. Before diving into the main topic, David asks us to […]

Podcast Episode 40 – Testing From The Start

Welcome to episode 40 of the Testing Peers! Episode 40??? How did that happen? Pleased to know people are still listening and supporting us! Thank you so much for this. In this episode, the peers discuss why we would want to have testing/quality activities happening earlier in a project cycle. The benefits of doing this […]

Podcast Episode 39 – Testing Rants

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Our gloves are off this week and we don’t have a specific topic to discuss. Instead we allowed the conversation to flow wherever it took us, with the only point being that this was a chance for us to vent about any frustrations we may […]

Podcast Episode 38 – Accountability

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast!! This time the Peers are talking accountability, which is actually the foundational reason for the wider Testing Peers group. After initially discussing the accountability of keeping your camera on in meetings, and what you may have ended up doing with the camera off, such […]

Podcast Episode 37 – Nurturing people

Thank you for joining the Testing Peers as we talk nurturing. We all are passionate about nurturing people and teams. The Peers find we actually we nurture each other quite a bit. We talk about creating a safe spaces, where people are supported, encouraged and act as critical friends. Russell shares a acronym to summaries […]

Podcast Episode 36 – Culture of Quality

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. With this podcast, we have matched the age of our youngest Peer as the ripe old age of 36 (Can you guess who?) 🙂 In this episode we talk about a topic which all the peers are passionate about, and that is defining and creating a […]

Podcast Episode 35 – What is quality?

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This week the Peers are talking around the perennial topic of quality. The Peers dive into what quality might mean, but in classic testers’ style, we talk about the importance of context: Quality is value to some person Jerry Weinberg: Quality Software Management: Volume 1, Systems […]

Podcast Episode 34 – How Did QA Miss This?

Thanks for joining us again for another episode of the Testing Peers. In this episode we talk about a phrase and scenario which fills us all with dread and frustration – “How Did QA miss this?”. Before we dived into the main topic, Chris asked us all to think about things we currently miss that […]

Podcast Episode 33 – Interview tests for Testers

Thanks for joining us for another podcast episode. This week we talk about interview tests for Testers. We will also take a trip down memory lane and revisit how we passed or struggled to pass our driving tests. We’ll move on from our terrible driving to talk about tests given pre interview and tests given […]

Podcast Episode 32 – Communities of Practice

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast. This week join the Peers, as we discuss Communities of Practice. After a brief cake disagreement, the Peers dive into the topic. We define what we define a CoP as, including what the name is, what it means, as well as what other names we feel […]