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Hello and welcome to episode 125 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, joining Chris, Russell and David is the returning guest host, Al Goodall. Before diving into the main topic, Al asks the group to think about book collections, a nice mix of techno-thrillers and classic prose on offer. Russell kicks off the main discussion around testability, what is it in which context? The Peers talk throu...

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This week join Chris, David, Shey and Russell as the Peers talk about transformations. The banter for this week's episode comes from Shey, asking the group which sport they would have love to have been a professional in. Then the Peers dived into the main topic, introduced by Shey. We talk about the good, the bad and the ug...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. David, Russell and Chris are joined by Sergio Friere to talk about all things Professional Development. Sergio leads the banter and asks the peers what their oldest memories are, everything from canal boat parties to visiting a zulu hut are mentioned, with ages ranging from age 3-6ish between the peers. As we start the main topic, Sergio sha...

Seasons Greetings! Thank you for joining us for our fifth annual podcast at Christmastime, this year's festive cheers with the Testing Peers brings Russell, Simon, David, Tara, Beth & Chris together to refine the holiday season backlog [see the footnote after the sponsor message for more details]. Who doesn't feel the festive warm & fuzzies over a refinement session? Before we ju...

Thank you for joining us for episode 121 of the Testing Peers Podcast. This time, join Chris, Tara, Russell and David as we discuss tools for testers. Before diving into the main topic, to mark the festive period, Tara poses the ice-breaker question of the Peers' favourite Holiday movie. It's a Wonderful Life, Die Hard, Home Alone, Spirited, The Grinch and Violent Night are included. The...

Welcome to another Testing Peers podcast episode. This time, join Chris, David, Richard Bradshaw and Al Goodall (whose surname Chris had some real issues remembering, sorry Al!) In this episode, the Peers talk about the role of the SDET. Is it SDEad? To break the ice, Al leads the group into a discussion about the best live albums, in our humble opinions. Shout-outs to Linkin Park, Sky, Raye, Live...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, Chris is joined by Vernon Richards, Heather Carter and Richard Hinton to talk about career journeys and making that decision around next steps. Before that, Heather kicks off the banter by asking for 2 Truths and 1 Lie from each of the hosts. You'll need to listen to work out which ones are which. Chris starts the conversation...

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Chris, David, Simon and first-time host, Butch Mayhew. Ahead of the main topic, Butch asks the group about their ideal superpower. We discuss controlling time, teleportation, flying, awareness (we'll come back to that later in the episode) and Butch's idea to have mustard and ketchup fly out of his fing...

Welcome to episode 117 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Chris, David, Russell and Heather as we discuss closure and letting go! Heather kicks us off with a discussion around last-minute travel decisions and we think Russell probably wins! The Peers then jump into a discussion about letting go. Changing roles. What is your identity? Who am I (professionally)? What am I good at? What do...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, Jesper Ottosen joins Russell, David and Chris as we discuss single points of failure. As ever, we begin with our first email handles - as it turns out ours weren't so embarrassing and have persisted, but at least we break the ice! Diving into the main topic, the group quickly talk about the single points of failure as people....

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Chris, Russell, Callum Akehurst-Ryan & Leigh Rathbone as we talk on the topic of "No Testers, No Problem". Before the main topic, Callum asks the group for their favourite fictional AI. From GLaDOS, I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E., the Terminator and Max Headroom. What's your favourite fictional AI? Leigh then int...

Thanks for joining us for episode 114 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, Ben Dowen joins Russell, David and Chris as we dive into the topic of learning fast (as a different take on failing fast). For this episode's banter, Ben asks the group about what their reasons to be cheerful are. A lot of learning, project closing and summer time activities (or lack of activities) ahead! The Peers...

Thank you for joining us for episode 113 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, Sanne Visser & Vernon Richards join Chris & David to discuss Emotional Intelligence. By the way, if you haven't already heard - Vernon hosts the Vernon Richard show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheVernonRichardShow After Vernon's hot drinks ice-breaker we dive into the main topic. Emotional intelligenc...

Thank you for joining us for episode 112 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time around we are talking on the topic of building testing teams, with Simon, Russell, David & Chris. The banter focuses in on favourite or memorable plot twists. Then Simon poses this hypothetical scenario - If you landed in a role and you were the first person there who has been given the task to build a [test] team...

Thank you for joining episode 111 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time Chris, David, Dermot & Sanne talk on the theme of 'This is the way', otherwise known perhaps as the gospel according to.... Before the main discussion, Sanne asks the group about any new to the Peers recipes or restaurants, so now I'm a little hungry. *good time to pause for a snack* Chris then introduces...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast. Chris, David, Russell and Simon talk about one of the big buzzwords in the industry at present being the term of Quality Engineering, what it means, how it differentiates from "Testing" and what it means for the future. For the banter, Russell asks us all what our favourite pizza toppings are, unsurprisingly there is talk of "...

Hello friends, thank you for joining us for the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Russell, David, Chris & Dermot as we discuss Presentations. Before diving into the main event, Chris asks the group to go back in time to when they first travelled for work. Our thoughts and experiences of that, and how that will have changed over our careers. As the Peers move on, we d...

Welcome to episode 108 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Russell, David, Callum & Dermot as they talk requirements, emergent ones at that! Before diving into the main event, Dermot kicks the Peers off with a conversation around fandom and eras, initially with Dr. Who. Moving on, the group discuss what emergent requirements are. Undocumented, not (yet) asked for, potential unknown c...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris, David and Russell are joined by Bruce for this one to discuss the topic of "Square Peg, Round Hole" and how we sometimes may not always feel like we or some tools fit and how we can address those challenges. Bruce starts with the banter and asks everyone what gets them up in the morning, everything from running, coffee and children...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, Simon, Chris, David and Russell look back at the huge success that was the first Testing Peers Conference held in Nottingham on 14th March. Before diving into it, David leads the banter and asks the peers about the most retro thing we all own and the Peers all reminisce with all things tech, cars and movies. With the main retrospect...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. Simon, David, Chris and Sam spend some time discussing the topic of linguistic gatekeeping and how sometimes our language can exclude people from conversations Chris starts us off with the banter topic of our experiences of "I Told You So" moments, after discussing several scenarios from our childhood, with everything from beach ba...

Welcome to episode 104 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time around we have a special trio of Callum Akehurst-Ryan, Russell Craxford & Ben Dowen, as the Peers talk about owning your career. Callum starts us off with important banter on snackage, before we head into sharing our own career stories and discussing what owning your career means along with our own challenges and some words of wisd...

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. Beth Marshall joins Chris, David and Russell to discuss the topic of saying no. Chris starts with the banter, asking the peers which films they have turned off or left the cinema because they were rubbish, various films mentioned, although the northerners on the recording seem to never walk out on anything. On the main topic, the discussion...

Welcome to episode 102 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time around join Tara Walton, Chris Armstrong, Russell Craxford & David Maynard, as the Peers talk about measuring. On the week of our first #PeersCon event, Tara breaks the ice, asking us our favourite and least favourite parts of conferences. Then we dive in. The team discussed the traps of bad metrics, gamification, toxic culture and...

In this episode Rich Bradshaw, Simon, David and Chris talk all things automation. Banter this week is brought to by Rich as we discover TK Maxx is the perfect way to explain exploratory testing. We dive into our first experiences of automation, going back a while, talking about different tools, tech debt and the frustration. We talk about the joys of source control. We talk about going full circle...