Merry Christmas, season’s greetings and happy holidays from the Testing Peers! Welcome to our fourth annual festive episode. Steve Watson, Tara Walton, Lena Nyström & Dermot Canniffe join Chris, Russell, David and (eventually) Simon as we engage in Would Heu-risk it? at this time of the year. Before we dive into the main event, Russell […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 96 – Would Heu-risk it? at Christmas"Thank you for joining the Testing Peers for another episode. On this one, Chris, David, Simon and Russell discuss the role of the manager and whether we still need them. Before jumping in, David asks the peers what things they can’t live without, we have answers from people, the internet, books and coffee machines. Simon […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 95 – Do We Need Managers?"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"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. The Awesome foursome back together again with the topic of fighting fires and some of the additional effort that is needed when it is all hitting the fan. Chris starts off the banter with asking us about memes we may use in the workplace, we have everything […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 93 – Fighting Fires"Welcome to the latest edition of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, David and Chris are joined by Dermot and also brand new host Sanne. The peers are talking about first impressions and how reputations can sometimes proceed you. Sanne starts the conversation off with a great question of “what do you friends know you […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 92 – First Impressions"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers, this week David, Beth, Chris and Russell. This week we focus on flow work Russell is on banter duty this week and we start with what gets us singing along to songs, it seems it doesn’t take much to get us singing. How do you get into […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 91 – Flow work"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers and in what is fast becoming a rare event, the band are back together, with Russell, Chris, David and Simon all present at the same time for a recording. We decided to talk about something which has been touched upon in previous episodes, the misconceptions of the […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 90 – Testing Misconceptions"Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris and Simon are absent again so David and Russell are joined by 2 new guest hosts in Dermot Canniffe and Beren van Daele. Dermot asks the peers about what they have recently committed to and enjoyed regarding TV and film. A variety of answers from the […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 89 – Risk Appetite"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 another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This week join Russell, David, Chris and first-time host, Beth Clarke, as the Peers discuss careers in software testing. After a cuddly toy-themed opening, the group talk about paths into software testing, with the group’s academic paths coming from biology, astrophysics, architecture, humanities & politics. We […]
Read more "Podcast Episode 87 – Testing as a career – is it worth it?"