Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. On this one, we are discussing how companies can attract the best talent to their testing roles. Before we dived into the main topic, David asked us to think of occasions where we had taken a punt (much like sometimes companies do with their hiring) and whether […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 24 – Attracting Great Testers"Welcome to episode 23 of the Testing Peers. This time we talk about reputation and brand. We cover what it is, why it matters and some tips to help you. This week we start off discussing Beth Marshall’s reputation audit template. A great tool for self reflection on your reputation. We move on to discuss […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 23 – Personal Reputation and Brand"Welcome to episode 22 of the Testing Peers podcast. This week the Peers tackle exploratory testing. After the important check-in on David’s potato harvest, Simon asks us if our curiosity has ever led to us breaking anything – which eventually leads us to the main event. What do we mean by exploratory testing? How does […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 22 – Exploratory Testing"Welcome to episode 21 of the Testing Peers and thank you for sticking with us. What better topic to discuss for our Valentines Day release than our experiences of dealing with conflict? We are a three again for this episode with David’s dulcet tones missing from the recording. So Simon, Russell and Chris do their […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 21 – Conflict"Welcome to episode 20 of the Testing Peers podcast. In this episode, the Peers discuss something that we all are confronted with in life – imposter syndrome. The Peers open by defining what we see imposter syndrome is and is not. Terms like ‘feeling out of depth’, ‘shame’, ‘new pupil at school’ are used and […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 20 – Imposter Syndrome"Welcome to Testing Peers Podcast! Each New Year, many of us reflect on the year we’ve had and think about the year ahead of us. We make resolution for the items we want keep doing or change we want to make. It seems quite timely to be talking about retrospectives and sharing our thoughts and […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 19 – Retrospectives"Happy new year and welcome to the first Testing Peers episode of 2021. Hopefully, you have all managed to enjoy the holiday season given the restrictions. In this episode, the Peers discuss one of Simon’s pet projects. We discuss the lack of testing being taught in Universities and how we as an industry can help […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 18 – #MakeATester"n this the last episode of the Testing Peers podcast of 2020, join Festive Cheers with the Testing Peers for our special Christmas episode.
In this special edition of the podcast, the Peers are joined by four friends of the podcast who kindly agreed to give up some of their time to join us for our recording.
Read more "Podcast Episode 17 – RiskStorming Santa’s 2020 (Testing Peers and Friends)"Thank you for joining us again! We had the great pleasure of being asked to do a live recording of our podcast at the EuroSTAR conference this year. Due to the kind of world we are living in at present where everyone is working remotely, conferences are virtual and we are all socially distancing, we thought we would discuss the topic of this remote world we now find our selves in.
Read more "Podcast Episode 16 – Being Remote (recorded live @ EuroSTAR 2020)"Welcome to episode 15 of the Testing Peers Podcast.
After getting over the initial disappointment of Russell not making this episode the Peers talk about dealing with wider disappointments. We start with the disappointment of old films in hindsight but eventually move on disappointments within testing.
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