Ministry of Testing

Welcome to episode 13 of TestSphere Roulette. Joining Kristof at the roulette table are 2 more testing superstars: Jaswanth Manigundan - Staff Quality Coach (tech) at Culture Amp Gareth Waterhouse (@gwaterhouse85) - Principal Test Engineer at ASOS.com The wheel threw out some really interesting topics for conversation: Risk Analysis - Techniques Curious - Feelings Log-Digging - Patterns Clarity - Quality Aspects Jaswanth can be contacted on the following sites:  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/-jaswanth/ www.jaswanth.xyz Gareth can be contacted on the following sites: Twitter - @gwaterhouse85 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garethwaterhouse/ https://garethwater.house/ Thank you to Jaswanth and Gareth for their great discussions and to the Ministry of Testing for supporting the podcast.   If you wish to find out more about TestSphere, check out RiskstormingOnline.com or find the card decks on the MoT Store.   Follow the pod at @TestSpherePod on twitter If you wish to be a guest on a future episode, fill the following form out: https://ministryoftesting.typeform.com/to/UtrLTbdc   Sounds and Music courtesy of Zapsplat.com Thank you for listening and we look forward to seeing you at the roulette table again soon.

Fresh from last month’s TestBash adventure, Neil is joined by fellow conference attendee Conor Fitzgerald, who brings his experiences as co-founder of the Ministry of Testing Cork meetup, as well as from his many years as tester, manager and toastmaster. On our agenda today, we discuss conferences and meetups (including the challenges of running both in-person and remote events), moving into management roles, how to lead when you can’t see people, and how good listening is often even more important than good speaking. From a musical perspective, Conor does a fantastic job of debuting a few timeless bands onto our playlist, including some classic grunge and rock, and a third appearance by one of Neil’s favourite acts. Plus a load of bonus book recommendations! Podcast Links: Poppulo Ministry of Testing Cork Cork Toastmasters Club Powerpoint Karaoke YouTube: Super Voice series Ministry of Testing Meetups Lena Wiberg - Would Heu-Risk It? Amazon: Kate Murphy - You’re Not Listening Slideshare: Conor Fitzgerald - As testers, do we do more harm than good? (2021 version) Modern Testing Conor Fitzgerald - Guiding Principles blog post Ronald Cummings-John & Owais Peer - Leading Quality Elisabeth Hendrickson - Explore It! Kim Scott - Radical Candor Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit Conor on Twitter: @ConorFi 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

Implementing a test automation strategy is more than user adoption.  You need to do your due diligence to mediate inhibitors before you turn the keys over to your team.

Welcome to episode 12 of TestSphere Roulette. Joining Kristof at the roulette table are 2 more testing superstars: Debora Sherwood (@deborahsherwood) - Quality Coach at Squiz Benjamin Bischoff (@BischoffDev) - Test Automation Engineer at Trivago The wheel threw out some really interesting topics for conversation: Pair Testing - Techniques Dark Launch - Observability Peer Reviews - Heuristics Comparable Products - Heuristics Debora can be contacted on the following sites:  Twitter - @deborahsherwood LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahsherwood/ Benjamin can be contacted on the following sites: Twitter - @BischoffDev LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-bischoff/ https://www.softwaretester.blog/   Thank you to Debora and Benjamin for their great discussions and to the Ministry of Testing for supporting the podcast.   If you wish to find out more about TestSphere, check out RiskstormingOnline.com or find the card decks on the MoT Store.   Follow the pod at @TestSpherePod on twitter If you wish to be a guest on a future episode, fill the following form out: https://ministryoftesting.typeform.com/to/UtrLTbdc   Sounds and Music courtesy of Zapsplat.com Thank you for listening and we look forward to seeing you at the roulette table again soon.

We’re doing it live! For our five-year anniversary, Neil throws caution (and editing) to the wind as he roams The Lowry in Manchester during TestBash UK 2022, contending with challenges including a tea service, a hotel restaurant, tannoy systems, outside broadcasts and interviewing multiple guests at once. Betwixt the background buzz, we talk to speakers and attendees about the return of face-to-face events, the novelty of a multi-track TestBash, and the common themes that we observed during the two-day conference, including quality engineering, culture, coaching and cognition. There are music selections as usual, with a mixture of new and old, and a first appearance for possibly the quintessential 90s one-hit wonder (even though Neil is aware that they actually had multiple follow-up singles). With thanks to all of our guests who volunteered their time for this episode: Yanir Taflev, Alex Reynolds, Simon Prior, Vernon Richards, Stuart Day, Diana Dromey, Julia Förster and Steve Moss. Podcast 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  

Kristof talks to Diogo about how TestRail is trying to leverage open source to provide value to their customers. Get to know their current open source projects, where you can find some goodies, and also how they manage code contributions and how you can even contribute yourself.

Welcome to episode 11 of TestSphere Roulette. Joining Kristof at the roulette table are 2 more testing superstars: Javier Aguirre Flores (@javier_83) - QA/Test Manager @ Capgemini Hilary Weaver-Robb (@g33klady)- Sr. Quality Engineer @ Microsoft  The wheel threw out some really interesting topics for conversation: Scalability - Quality Aspect Rejected - Feelings Bandwagon Effect - Pattern Hilary can be contacted on the following sites:  Twitter - @g33klady LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/g33klady/ https://g33klady.com Javier can be contacted on the following sites: Twitter - @javier_83 Thank you to Hilary and Javier for their great discussions and to the Ministry of Testing for supporting the podcast.   If you wish to find out more about TestSphere, check out RiskstormingOnline.com or find the card decks on the MoT Store.   Follow the pod at @TestSpherePod on twitter If you wish to be a guest on a future episode, fill the following form out: https://ministryoftesting.typeform.com/to/UtrLTbdc   Sounds and Music courtesy of Zapsplat.com Thank you for listening and we look forward to seeing you at the roulette table again soon.

Conor Wolford has spent the majority of his young career specializing in software test design optimization. He works with many of the Fortune 500 companies around the globe to ensure teams are taking smarter, more systematic and efficient approaches to designing software tests. As the world gets more and more complex, Conor believes we must find ways to be much more thorough, while still remaining highly efficient, with our software testing efforts. We encourage you to connect with Conor Wolford on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conorwolford/  You can sign up for a free, 30-day DesignWise trial at any time at:  https://www.ranorex.com/ranorex-designwise/ 

Kristof talks to Diogo about how effective test reporting can provide valuable insights and help make testing more efficient. From testers to managers, everyone can benefit from using test reporting and Diogo gives us some hints about what pieces of reporting data everyone should be looking into.

In this podcast, Juliette MacPhail, a Product Manager at mabl, discusses a recent product release from mabl, including the ability to support testing packaged applications, such as Salesforce, and shadow DOM elements. Learn more about mabl's Salesforce testing capabilities in this recorded webinar.

This month it’s a truly worldwide affair as Neil is joined by Nicola Lindgren, a New Zealander who’s based in Sweden, to share stories of her testing journey and her community content creation, including a newly-published book, “Starting Your Software Testing Career”. We talk about how to reserve the time to participate in extra-curricular activities, and take a deep-dive into the process of creating a book from start to finish, including finding value for your audience, how contributors can help you to create more well-rounded content, getting your content reviewed, and how to promote effectively on social media. On the music front, there are memories of Nicaraguan night-life, graduation parties, Korean dance routines and “songs for squats”! Podcast Links: Nicola’s blog Nicola’s new YouTube channel Leanpub: Starting Your Software Testing Career Amazon: Starting Your Software Testing Career House of Test The Culture Trip: Why High School Celebrations Are So Big In Sweden  YouTube: LifeLikeJosie - What Graduation Is Like In Sweden Mojovation Consulting - the “germ of an idea” that Neil referred to! Amazon Direct Publishing: Proof Copies Google Docs to Markdown converter Leanpub: Markua manual Leanpub: How Can I Test This? YouTube: Nicola Lindgren - The CV that Got Me My First Testing Role Wiktionary claims that “nicheness” is a word Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky - Make Time Gary Keller - The One Thing Testit 2022 (Malmö, 13 September) SANAE 2022 (Bratislava, 28-29 September) TestBash UK 2022 (Manchester, 22-23 September) Nicola on Twitter: @NicolaLindgren 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

Kristof meets with Ranorex team members Julie Fuelberth & Aaron Stearns from Ranorex to discuss the following: Stakeholders at every level are focusing on their technology that supports critical business processes knowing that they need to make a change. RPA technology can help mitigate process vulnerabilities and support scale and growth

In this podcast, Thoms Lavin, Product Manager at mabl, joins the Ministry of Testing to discuss trends in artificial intelligence and low-code, and how mabl makes it easier for anyone to contribute to test creation and maintenance. Learn more about mabl's Salesforce testing capabilities in this recorded webinar.

Conor Wolford has spent the majority of his young career specializing in software test design optimization. He works with many of the Fortune 500 companies around the globe to ensure teams are taking smarter, more systematic and efficient approaches to designing software tests. As the world gets more and more complex, Conor believes we must find ways to be much more thorough, while still remaining highly efficient, with our software testing efforts. We encourage you to connect with Conor Wolford on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/conorwolford/ You can sign up for a free, 30-day DesignWise trial at any time at: designwise.ranorex.com/signup Check out the full DesignWise demo / webinar here: https://www.ranorex.com/automated-testing-webinars/the-how-tos-of-designwise-with-ranorex-studio/

Kristof talks to Sergio about how making tutorials can be a great way to share knowledge, by giving concrete examples that teams can use as a booster to get started quickly and increase the adoption of new testing frameworks or of new CI/CD tools. But making tutorials is not something that is done in an unstructured way; if we want to increase the impact of our tutorials, technical or process related, we need to be more professional. Making a tutorial is like making a recipe; first we need to understand the recipes that are most worth it, then we need to deliver our message in a way that is easy to follow, and then we need to evaluate what we did. Sergio shares his experience with the many tutorials he made for the broad Xray community; maybe something you can also try internally to leverage knowledge within the teams or even as a way to share hands-on information with your customers.