Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers! This week, join Simon, David, Russell and (semi-regular) Shey as they talk about leadership in testing. The episode kicks off with a discussion about leadership icons outside of testing, before diving into leadership in testing. Shey shares his journey into leadership, and how he discovered unhelpful leadership […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 77 – Testing Leadership"Welcome to the new episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, the peers talk about experience with moving onto new opportunities. For this we had a special extended panel, joining Chris, David and Simon were Beth Marshall and Samuel Nitsche. For the banter, Chris asks us about any new equipment we’ve received when joining […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 76 – Testing Opportunity Knocks"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Regulars Chris, Simon, Russell and David this week talk all things strategies. Before diving into the main topic, we talk about strategies in our home life. We then try our best to describe what is a strategy, we all have slight different yet similar definitions. We share […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 75 – Strategies for Testing"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris, Russell and David are joined by a special guest and artist of the amazing Testing Peers logo, Bruce (the Legend). Before diving into the main topic, Bruce leads the peers into a discussion about their skincare routines, do the Peers wash their faces? Do they use […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 74 – Building Team Resilience"Hello and welcome to episode 73 of the Testing Peers podcast, where this week we are talking about glue work. This week, regulars Chris, David and Russell are joined by the brilliant Vernon Richards. Before diving in, Vernon asks the Peers about their favourite non-work books. Chris then introduces the main topic of glue work, […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 73 – Glue Work"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast, this time we have a slightly different show for you. Regular host, Chris is joined by the wonderful Heather Reid, as we look back over the brilliant article Heather wrote back in 2017 – 30 Things Every New Software Tester Should Learn on the Ministry of […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 72 – 30 Things Every New Tester Should Learn – 6 Years On"Happy new year! We hope all our listeners have a great 2023. Thank you for being with us on the journey, we hope you all continue to enjoy the podcasts we provide. In relation to that, in this episode, we review what the Software Testing Market Trends are for 2023. Joining Simon, Chris and David […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 71 – Testing Market Trends"Hello and welcome to episode 70 of the Testing Peers podcast. As we’re drawing toward Christmas this week we thought we’d do a special. Taking a leaf from ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens we do a little retrospective and take a look at Christmas past, present and future. We’re joined by the usual crew […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 70 – Christmas Past, Present and Future"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. The original crew (Chris, David, Russell and Simon) are discussing how we can stay connected in the testing world, especially in the times of the social media landscape changing. Before diving into the main topic, Russell takes us on a journey back to times in our lives […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 69 – Staying Connected"Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. Join David, Simon, Russell and Chris as we talk about planning and estimation. But, before we dive into the topic we take a brief look into the approaches the Peers take towards researching personal purchases and we discover Simon likes a good […]
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