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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

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, t

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

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 goin

Testing Peers podcast has reached 100 episodes!Beth Marshall (10 episodes), chairs this special look back and forward episode, joined by Simon Prior (78 episodes), Russell Craxford (88), Chris Armstrong (93) and David Maynard (96).Beth skillfully guides the conversation to talk about the podcast and beyond, what are we most proud of?A few little peeks behind the curtain, including

One away from the big 100, what better way to celebrate than talking about our experience with failures? Simon, Chris, Russell and David share stories of failures from their careers and what they have learned from them.Before diving into the main topic, Chris leads the banter and asks the Peers about their failures when it comes to computer games, which ones did they really suck at

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. On this episode, Chris, Russell and David are joined by a new guest, Jon Robinson. The topic they all discussed was the wonders (or lack of wonder) around Meetings.Jon leads the banter and asked everyone for their weirdest/craziest meetings, this covers everything from awkward situations, to lack of context, to managers takin

Happy New Year from the Testing Peers!In this episode, the FullSnackTester, Ben Dowen joins Russell, David and Chris as we talk collaboration.Before the main event, Ben asks the group about resolutions, where the group talk about reading, fitness, cooking, answering conference calls for papers and our own conference #PeersCon, coming March 14th 2024 in Nottingham, more information

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 asks the Peers our favourite thing at C

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 starts the main conversation of whether we could live with