Podcast Episode 45 – Christmas Dinner MVP

Season’s greetings from the Testing Peers!
As with last year we tapped into our ‘great’ creative minds to find a Christmas-themed episode that somehow is loosely associated with software quality.

Podcast Episode 44 – Dream Jobs

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Simon Show Testing Peers Podcast. In this episode, the Peers talk about dream jobs. Before we dive into the main topic, we talk about when we have treated ourselves to dream gifts. From Back to the Future Lego, PlayStations, greenhouses, AC Cobras and coffee machines! The Peers […]

Podcast Episode 43 – Coaching Testing

Hello and welcome back for another episode of the Testing Peers podcast! In this episode, the Peers will be discussing coaching testing. We take a look at coaching credentials outside of our work lives and then dive into defining what coaching is and what it isn’t. Chris mentions a sketchnote made at TestBash 2017, in […]

Podcast Episode 42 – Performance and Goal Setting

Thank you for joining as this time we share our views and ideas on performance and goals setting. Chris starts us off by taking us into the archive of his brain and on to PE – so we share stories of sporting prowess or lack of. We move on to talk about why we do […]

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 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 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 […]

Podcast Episode 31 – Why we automate

Thanks for joining us for another podcast episode. This week we talk about why we automate but we start with what automation is and its value. Automation to us is a valuable tool that should focus on enhancing testing, this doesn’t always mean automating test cases but can also mean automating tasks and activities. Automation […]