AB Testing

We talk about...a lot of things. From testing podcasts to A/B (with the slash) testing to the idea of Internal Developer Relations. It's a lot, so apologies in advance.

We have Darko from Semaphore - that's the good news. The bad news is that we lost the last 5-ish minutes of the podcast due to me not planning ahead. We will work with Darko to crash an episode of his podcast in the near future and complete the conversation.

We talk about setting goals...or commitments...or /PLANS/ for our team members.

We play the kanban game - but stop, because playing the kanban game ( kanbanboardgame.com) on a podcast is super boring. So then we just gave up and started talking and wound up being even more boring. Enjoy!

We talk a lot about Modern Testing Principle number 5 - the one that says only customers can evaluate quality, and why - despite controversy, we believe it is true. We also discuss whether or not Deming would be a fan of the principles.

We are honored to have Anne-Marie Charrett join us this week to talk about quality coaching.  Anne-Marie currently works at CultureAmp where she puts quality coaching into practice. You can find her on twitter ( @charrett ), and on her website . Her ongoing book on quality coaching is available here, with fresh installments monthly.

Kristin Jackvony - author of The Complete Software Tester - (https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Software-Tester-Strategies-High-Quality-ebook/dp/B09NGVVCJ9) joins us for a wonderful discussion on testing, testers, and the value of a music education. 

This week, we are joined by Henry Golding, who doesn't call himself a quality coach, but that's what he does anyway.  For more about Henry, check out this preview of Henry's talk at GDC , and his Game Automated Testing Resource Hub  

We are joined by Al Shalloway. We talk about Agile mostly, but we finally get to talk about SAFE. You can contact Al at al.shalloway at successengineering dot works

It's our last episode of 2021, so we take some time to reflect on the last year, look forward into the next year.

It's our 150th episide. With absolutely zero celebration or anything else special, we ramble our way through discussions on Customer-Centric Monitoring, Alan's 3 biggest accomplishments in 2021, and our favorite video games.

We talk a little about work place perks (for reasons unknown), and then talk more about the new fun challenges with Alan's new org.

Eventually, we talk about how we could gear the Modern Testing Principles more towards development teams.

We attempt to talk about coaching and quality coaching...and we do - mostly.

We chat a bit about the rise (?) of Modern Testing practices in the industry, and then look at a few TestSphere cards - and eventually end up talking a whole lot about data.

We kick off the episode with 5 painful minutes of discussion on Brent's hernia surgery before making it into a discussion on fairness, diversity, psychological safety, and other stuff. And we talk about a lot of books.

We talk a bit about Alan's recent AMA on the future of test automation and then about his past with Microsoft Teams.

We dive (wade? splash??) into some listener questions on Theory of Constraints applied to different aspects of software development and Modern Testing.

We're joined by Nick and Todd from https://reflect.run to talk about the future of test automation (sort of) and developers creating UI automation. We loved having these folks on the show, and hope you enjoy the conversation.

In this episode, we discuss deep vs. shallow testing, choosing what to automate, and the future of testing roles (sort of). The link we discuss is https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/15-1253.00

We discuss Alan's experiences at TestingFestival, talk a bit about DevOps and answer (sort of) a mailbag question on BDD

We talk more about Lencioni's working genius model, and attempt to attach it to a mailbag question about how projects get done in a modern testing world.

We discuss one of the age-old questions of software testing. How does a "manaual tester" 'get into' automation. 

We dive into our history of personality type tests. Starting with the classic MBTI, we move to Insights, Strengths Finders, and then Working Genius (we also briefly mention our Harry Potter houses). Meyers Briggs Insights Strengths Finders Working Genius

This time we talk a bit about learning (including an upcoming webinar from alan - https://www.meetup.com/Pacific-NW-Software-Quality-Conference-PNSQC/events/276239634 , and talk about quality vs. testing - which is just another framing of principle 5 of the modern testing principles.