Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Chris, David, Vernon and Russell as they discuss the topic of ‘being not doing’, the theme for the Testing Peers Conference #PeersCon, on March 14th 2024. The conversation opens with Chris talking about ‘being agile, rather than just doing agile’, ‘being a tester, […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 94 – Being not Doing"Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Chris, David, Tara and Callum as we discuss the topic of feedback. Before diving into the main topic, Callum asks what type of adventurer we would be. Both Callum and Tara have a background producing content around Dungeons & Dragons from […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 88 – Feedback"Welcome to episode 84 of the Testing Peers podcast. This week, Sam Nitsche joins regular hosts David, Russell and Chris as we discuss deadlines. After initially covering our relationships with deadlines while in school, we jump into the main topic, deadlines that impact, or are impacted by testing. The conversation touches deadlines as a tool, […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 84 – Deadlines"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast, and this release falls almost three years after episode one. Thank you for joining us on this journey. This week, regulars David and Chris are joined by Steve Watson and our first American, Tara Walton. In Peers tradition, we kick off with some banter, and Tara […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 80 – What do testers do?"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Regular hosts Chris, David and Russell are joined by the Semi-Regular host Shey to discuss all about Quality Shift moments, where our understanding or perspective around aspects of testing/quality may have changed forever. Before diving into this, Chris starts the banter with looking at “aha moments” and […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 79 – Quality Shift"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This week, join Russell, David, Simon and special guest host, Dan Ashby as we discuss growth as testers. Before diving in, the Peers discuss things that they have grown and taken pride in, from careers, to children, to plants. The topic is introduced by Dan, speaking […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 78 – Testers’ Growth"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 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"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"