Ministry of Testing

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. It's a warm Northern welcome to the island for Claire Reckless, who comes ashore to talk about the Manchester tech scene, her recent ventures into conference speaking and hosting the Software Testing Clinic, and how these play into her ongoing battles with impostor syndrome. In amongst the discussions about getting out of your comfort zone and overcoming your inner fears, Claire shares the path that she has taken to become more comfortable, and earns brownie points for picking a song by one of Neil's all-time favourite bands. You can find Claire on Twitter at @clairereckless! Claire's Links: MoneySuperMarket Software Testing Clinic Nordic Testing Days YouTube: Nordic Testing Days 2018 presentations Manchester Evening News: BBC's Salford move key to Northern Powerhouse MediaCityUK NWEWT (North West Exploratory Workshop on Testing) Liverpool Tester Gathering Twitter: Jit Gosai (@JitGo) MoT Dojo: TestBash Manchester 2017 - Claire Reckless: The Fraud Squad Let's Talk About Tests, Baby: Episode 94 - Sound Effects and Overdramatics: The retrospective (featuring Claire) Cambridge Folk Festival Agile Manchester 2018 Daily Mail: Female doctor locked out of gym after computer assumed she was a man Agile Testing Days Aylesbury Tester Gathering - August Meetup TestBash Manchester 2018 London Tester Gathering Workshops 2018 Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. You've heard him name-checked for the past few episodes, so now it's time to hear from the man himself, Danny Dainton! Danny talks to us about his unique journey to the island, including a ten-year spell in the military and a difficult first experience with testing. We get deep into a technical discussion about how to use the API development/testing tool Postman, and talk more broadly about discovery, applied learning, writing and helping others, including Danny's accolades on Stack Overflow - with some seriously varied songs along the way. If you'd like to reach Danny on social media, head over to @DannyDainton and/or @south_west_test! Danny's Links: Postman Postman for QA Teams TestBash Brighton 2018: Danny Dainton - Learning to Learn - My Struggles and Successes YouTube: Jim Carrey's parody of Danny's first song choice Neil Studd: Practical Automation: Cinema listings to my inbox Paw - API testing tool for Mac GitHub: Postman Labs YouTube: C'etait un rendez-vous - French short film Chai Assertion Library (used for tests in Postman) Danny Dainton: Hold on, wait a moment... (moment.js) Postman: Integration with Jenkins Postman: Command line integration with Newman Stack Overflow: Danny Dainton's profile Chrome Web Store: Advanced REST Client Neil Studd: Creating my first Slack bot with Heroku Danny Dainton: Hipchat Custom Commands - Continually Improving our processes! Ministry of Testing Dojo: Neil Studd: Supercharging Your Bug Reports POST/CON Postman user conference GitHub Blog: A bright future for GitHub (acquisition announcement) Microsoft Blog: Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers Meetup.com: South West Test SwanseaCon TestBash Manchester 2018 Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. You've heard him name-checked for the past few episodes, so now it's time to hear from the man himself, Danny Dainton! Danny talks to us about his unique journey to the island, including a ten-year spell in the military and a difficult first experience with testing. We get deep into a technical discussion about how to use the API development/testing tool Postman, and talk more broadly about discovery, applied learning, writing and helping others, including Danny's accolades on Stack Overflow - with some seriously varied songs along the way. If you'd like to reach Danny on social media, head over to @DannyDainton and/or @south_west_test! Danny's Links: Postman Postman for QA Teams TestBash Brighton 2018: Danny Dainton - Learning to Learn - My Struggles and Successes YouTube: Jim Carrey's parody of Danny's first song choice Neil Studd: Practical Automation: Cinema listings to my inbox Paw - API testing tool for Mac GitHub: Postman Labs YouTube: C'etait un rendez-vous - French short film Chai Assertion Library (used for tests in Postman) Danny Dainton: Hold on, wait a moment... (moment.js) Postman: Integration with Jenkins Postman: Command line integration with Newman Stack Overflow: Danny Dainton's profile Chrome Web Store: Advanced REST Client Neil Studd: Creating my first Slack bot with Heroku Danny Dainton: Hipchat Custom Commands - Continually Improving our processes! Ministry of Testing Dojo: Neil Studd: Supercharging Your Bug Reports POST/CON Postman user conference GitHub Blog: A bright future for GitHub (acquisition announcement) Microsoft Blog: Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers Meetup.com: South West Test SwanseaCon TestBash Manchester 2018 Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This month, The Super Testing Bros talk to Ashley Hunsberger and Marcus Merrell about the recent changes they’ve made to the SeleniumConf to be more diverse & inclusive, pay to speak, and other conference-related chatter. Ministry of Testing and Super Testing Bros are partnering up for 2018 to bring you regular pods on the last Monday of the month. You can listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud! Plus follow what The Super Testing Bros are up to on Twitter.

This month, The Super Testing Bros talk to Ashley Hunsberger and Marcus Merrell about the recent changes they’ve made to the SeleniumConf to be more diverse & inclusive, pay to speak, and other conference-related chatter. Ministry of Testing and Super Testing Bros are partnering up for 2018 to bring you regular pods on the last Monday of the month. You can listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud! Plus follow what The Super Testing Bros are up to on Twitter.

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. It's time to cross the streams, as Neil is joined by Dan Billing, his co-host on the Screen Testing podcast and an all-round security testing guru. In a predictably madcap episode, we throw away most of the questions and get into discussing the deep role that music (and movies) play within Dan's personal and testing lives. There's also some serious discussion about Dan's professional influences, mentors, and coping with anxiety, illness and loss. You can catch Dan on Twitter at @TheTestDoctor! Dan's Links: Screen Testing podcast YouTube: On Her Majesty's Secret Service opening theme (John Barry) Wikipedia: List of music featured on Doctor Who IMDB: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Ian Dury movie) Chailey Heritage Foundation Brittany Hunter: Of Software Designers & Broken Combs Rob Lambert: T-Shaped Testers and their role in a team TestBash Brighton 2013: Bill Matthews - Context Driven Security Dan Billing: Introducing... Ticket Magpie Twitter: David Hatanian Twitter: Franzi Sauerwein GitHub: Danny Dainton - All Things Postman OWASP Juice Shop Project Meetup.com: Liverpool Tester Gathering Troy Hunt YouTube: Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb TestBash Philadelphia 2017: Dan Billing - How To Be A Redshirt And Survive YouTube: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - What Are Midichlorians? YouTube: Coldplay - Midnight Spotify: Dan's "Security" playlist Spotify: Dan's "Testing Soundtracks" playlist Hacker Typer IMDB: High Fidelity Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones James Bonding podcast Wikipedia: General Data Protection Regulation Twitter: Richard Bradshaw: "If you don't mention risk at least once a day..." YouTube: South Park - Kyle's Mom's A B**** YouTube: The Simmertones - Dr Who Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. It's time to cross the streams, as Neil is joined by Dan Billing, his co-host on the Screen Testing podcast and an all-round security testing guru. In a predictably madcap episode, we throw away most of the questions and get into discussing the deep role that music (and movies) play within Dan's personal and testing lives. There's also some serious discussion about Dan's professional influences, mentors, and coping with anxiety, illness and loss. You can catch Dan on Twitter at @TheTestDoctor! Dan's Links: Screen Testing podcast YouTube: On Her Majesty's Secret Service opening theme (John Barry) Wikipedia: List of music featured on Doctor Who IMDB: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Ian Dury movie) Chailey Heritage Foundation Brittany Hunter: Of Software Designers & Broken Combs Rob Lambert: T-Shaped Testers and their role in a team TestBash Brighton 2013: Bill Matthews - Context Driven Security Dan Billing: Introducing... Ticket Magpie Twitter: David Hatanian Twitter: Franzi Sauerwein GitHub: Danny Dainton - All Things Postman OWASP Juice Shop Project Meetup.com: Liverpool Tester Gathering Troy Hunt YouTube: Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb TestBash Philadelphia 2017: Dan Billing - How To Be A Redshirt And Survive YouTube: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - What Are Midichlorians? YouTube: Coldplay - Midnight Spotify: Dan's "Security" playlist Spotify: Dan's "Testing Soundtracks" playlist Hacker Typer IMDB: High Fidelity Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones James Bonding podcast Wikipedia: General Data Protection Regulation Twitter: Richard Bradshaw: "If you don't mention risk at least once a day..." YouTube: South Park - Kyle's Mom's A B**** YouTube: The Simmertones - Dr Who Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. This week's guest is Amber Race (@ambertests), who brings a selection of topics for discussion which are almost as eclectic as her musical choices, which include rap, folk, classical and hard rock. Amber and Neil share anecdotes of bridging the divide between developers and testers, and talk about the importance of empathy, teamwork, gratitude and humility. Links: Amber's session at Agile Testing Days 2018 Richard Bradshaw: Launching Automation in Testing Eater.com: Inside Seattle's new Amazon Go store BBC News: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal Cassandra Leung: I Downloaded My Facebook Data - Here's What I Found Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. This week's guest is Amber Race (@ambertests), who brings a selection of topics for discussion which are almost as eclectic as her musical choices, which include rap, folk, classical and hard rock. Amber and Neil share anecdotes of bridging the divide between developers and testers, and talk about the importance of empathy, teamwork, gratitude and humility. Links: Amber's session at Agile Testing Days 2018 Richard Bradshaw: Launching Automation in Testing Eater.com: Inside Seattle's new Amazon Go store BBC News: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal Cassandra Leung: I Downloaded My Facebook Data - Here's What I Found Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This month, we talk to Katrina Clokie about her book A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps, a bit about DevOps culture, and what it means to be a tester in the world of DevOps. Ministry of Testing and Super Testing Bros are partnering up for 2018 to bring you regular pods on the last Monday of the month. You can listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud! Plus follow what The Super Testing Bros are up to on Twitter.

This month, we talk to Katrina Clokie about her book A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps, a bit about DevOps culture, and what it means to be a tester in the world of DevOps. Ministry of Testing and Super Testing Bros are partnering up for 2018 to bring you regular pods on the last Monday of the month. You can listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud! Plus follow what The Super Testing Bros are up to on Twitter.

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. Andrew comes to the island to share stories from TestBash Brighton 2018, highlighting a few of his favourite sessions and drawing parallels to his own career experiences. He also brings a particularly wide variety of songs spanning a range of genres, including satire, movies, videogames, musical theatre, and artists that it's okay to like even if they're not "cool". You can reach Andrew on the Ministry of Testing Slack or via Twitter (@TestingChef).   TestBash Brighton talks discussed in detail: Rosie Hamilton - Discovering Logic in Testing Danny Dainton - Learning to Learn: My Struggles and Successes Alan Page - Experiences in Modern Testing 99 Second Talks   Other Links: Screen Testing: Doctor Who - The Deadly Assassin (feat. Andrew Morton) Andrew Morton & Anna Baik talk at TestBash Brighton 2016 Meetup.com: South West Test Twitter: South West Test Neil Studd: Lessons learned from six months of refining a presentation Wikipedia: Inductive reasoning Wikipedia: Deductive reasoning Wikipedia: Abductive reasoning Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles TED Talks: Shawn Achor - The happy secret to better work Amazon.co.uk: Adam Kay - The Remains of Tom Lehrer YouTube: Tom Lehrer - Pollution Alan Page's Angry Weasel blog AB Testing podcast Looney Labs: Fluxx Ministry of Testing: Choose Not To Be A Software Testing Hero (Ali Hill) Let's Talk About Tests, Baby: Episode 100 (Live from Brighton) Patreon: Gem Hill Elizabeth Sandifer: TARDIS Eruditorum essays   Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. Andrew comes to the island to share stories from TestBash Brighton 2018, highlighting a few of his favourite sessions and drawing parallels to his own career experiences. He also brings a particularly wide variety of songs spanning a range of genres, including satire, movies, videogames, musical theatre, and artists that it's okay to like even if they're not "cool". You can reach Andrew on the Ministry of Testing Slack or via Twitter (@TestingChef).   TestBash Brighton talks discussed in detail: Rosie Hamilton - Discovering Logic in Testing Danny Dainton - Learning to Learn: My Struggles and Successes Alan Page - Experiences in Modern Testing 99 Second Talks   Other Links: Screen Testing: Doctor Who - The Deadly Assassin (feat. Andrew Morton) Andrew Morton & Anna Baik talk at TestBash Brighton 2016 Meetup.com: South West Test Twitter: South West Test Neil Studd: Lessons learned from six months of refining a presentation Wikipedia: Inductive reasoning Wikipedia: Deductive reasoning Wikipedia: Abductive reasoning Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles TED Talks: Shawn Achor - The happy secret to better work Amazon.co.uk: Adam Kay - The Remains of Tom Lehrer YouTube: Tom Lehrer - Pollution Alan Page's Angry Weasel blog AB Testing podcast Looney Labs: Fluxx Ministry of Testing: Choose Not To Be A Software Testing Hero (Ali Hill) Let's Talk About Tests, Baby: Episode 100 (Live from Brighton) Patreon: Gem Hill Elizabeth Sandifer: TARDIS Eruditorum essays   Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter

In this podcast, The Super Testing Bros are joined by Dougie Hoskins and Antonia Landi to discuss all things mobile testing! Find out some of their testing strategies and top tips for testing web apps on mobile and native apps. As well as their thoughts on the benefits and challenges of testing on real devices and simulators. Ministry of Testing and Super Testing Bros are partnering up for 2018 to bring you regular pods on the last Monday of the month. You can listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud! Plus follow what The Super Testing Bros are up to on Twitter.

In this podcast, The Super Testing Bros are joined by Dougie Hoskins and Antonia Landi to discuss all things mobile testing! Find out some of their testing strategies and top tips for testing web apps on mobile and native apps. As well as their thoughts on the benefits and challenges of testing on real devices and simulators. Ministry of Testing and Super Testing Bros are partnering up for 2018 to bring you regular pods on the last Monday of the month. You can listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud! Plus follow what The Super Testing Bros are up to on Twitter.