In May, the Testing Peers Podcast will be 1 year old! It’s been an incredible year and our feedback and downloads have been so much more than we ever imagined! So we wanted to do something special to give back to our listeners. We’d thought about several different options, but have plumped for running an […]
Read more "A Year of the Testing Peers – First Anniversary Episode"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.
Read more "Podcast Episode 15 – Dealing with Disappointment"This week, the Peers have new mics and are a trio for the first time. We tackle the age old baggage that is, defect management, or perhaps bugs or issues, or whatever you want to call them!
Read more "Podcast Episode 14 – Managing Defects"In this episode, the Peers talk about their journey of personal development. We all come from varied backgrounds into testing so as you can imagine, the learnings paths we took to get where we are today are just as different. When talking about how we developed, it became clear the importance of having people around […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 13 – Our Personal Development"