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We talk a bit about personality types (more on this in 136), touch on some thoughts on record & playback automation, and a few other tangential topics. Books mentioned on this podcast include: Accelerate (Forsgren et al) Radical Candor (Scott) Where Good Ideas come from (Johnson) How to Measure Anything (Hubbard) Lean Startup (Ries) The Leaders Guide to Radical Management (Denning) Drive (Pink...

It's a bit of a meandering discussion this time, but we dance around the role of teams that support other teams success. Here's the blog post link Brent refers to in the podcast - Test Doesn't Understand the Customer

We reflect a bit on Alan's recent article (inspired by episode 132), and then talk quite a bit about the correlation of test automation ownership and quality. We hope you enjoy the show.

It's our first episode of 2021 - where we talk (a little) about the US political situation, then discuss mindsets and skillsets - and then wrap things up with a discussion on estimation metrics.

This is our last recording of 2020, so we reflect a little on 2020 and look forward to 2021.

We talk a bit about the upcoming U.S. Election, discuss ideal team size, and then workshop some ideas on what “advanced” training for Modern Testing may look like.

This time it’s the story of Alan – from music teacher to bicycle messenger to modern testing (and just a few steps in between). It’s another view into the origins of modern testing.

It’s origin story time. We talk about the early days of Brent’s testing career and how he found his way into the thing we now call Modern Testing.

Apologies for the audio issues – Brent was having technical challenges. We cover stuff related to Alan’s growing team (and responsibilities) at Unity – plus the usual assortment of tangents.

We talk about what’s going on with Alan’s expanded role at Unity and answer (sort of) a mailbag question about bottlenecks in delivering mobile apps.

This time, Andreas Worm – aka @globalworming in our Slack group joins me for conversations, mostly about his experiences with scrum.

My guest for the ABT 343 is Danny Faught. We talk about his move out of being a dedicated tester, and well as the biography he’s putting together. Find Danny on twitter and read his blog.

Just Brent and Alan this week. We talk about how Program Management can help with Modern Testing and Accelerating the Achievement of Shippable Quality… …but mostly Alan tries to explain to Brent that Product Management is different than Program Management, no matter what titles Microsoft use. Worth reading on the topic: https://leanpub.com/agileprogrammanagement

Brent and Alan are joined by Maaret Pyhäjärvi, who talks with us about her role, the role of testing in general, mob programming, and a whole lot of other topics. I hope this was the beginning of a longer conversation, and we hope to have Maaret as a guest again soon. Maaret’s blogMaaret’s book on […]

Sue Loh (@suedeyloh on twitter). Sue has a lengthy history of finding and fixing nasty performance issues across a lot of different operating systems at Microsoft, but we spend most of our time talking about her Evil Plan To Save The World Get a copy of Sue’s excellent book, Raven, today

We are joined by the CTO of Devexpress to talk about TestCafe.

We talk a bit about Covid (again), touch on a few random subjects, and then find time to answer a few mailbag questions. We also now have an AB Testing Podcast instagram.

For this episode, we are joined by David Bishop – the author of a new book called Metagility. There’s a lot of good stuff here, and we think you’ll find it interesting. Links for more info: Book information – https://www.jrosspub.com/metagility.html David’s company – https://agile-worx.com Current course schedule – https://www.metagility.technology

Melissa Eaden is in the hot seat this week to talk about management, leadership, modern testing, and more. Melissa’s blog: https://testingandmoviesandstuff.blogspot.com/ Melissa on Twitter: @melthetester

We, of course, talk about working through Covid-19, but we spend most of our time talking about retrospectives.

Yuliya Bagriy (known across the internet as aviskase) is my guest this time. We talk about her path into testing, a bit about her new role, and the origin of the alias, ‘aviskase’ – which includes a tangent on how she broke Postman.

We talk about Covid (because every meeting does these days). And we also (sort of?) talk about velocity.

I’m joined by Chris Kenst, who talks about his path into testing, his job as an automation engineer (which he convinces me not to hate), and his work with AST. He also mentions these links. His job – https://bloomnation.com AST – https://associationforsoftwaretesting.org Blog – https://www.kenst.com List of test conferences – https://testingconferences.org Testing edu...

343 is back with Melissa Pohlman, who has thoughts for testers, advice for managers, and stories about a whole lot more.

We talk quite a bit about working from home, and a bit about test coaching / consulting in the Modern Testing world. We hope everyone is staying healthy and sane out there.