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Kristof talks to Darrel Farris from Mabl about accessibility testing. How can testers start to identify and report accessibility issues and Darrel will provide us a real life use case

The usual Testers’ Island Discs schedule is back on track, and we’re resuming things this month with Callum Akehurst-Ryan, who chats about activities during the recent Pride Month, the importance of embracing people’s authentic selves, and espousing love for the joy of exploratory testing. Along the way, we get into discussions about videogame crushes, tactical tattoo selections, watery mammals, using Dungeons & Dragons to help with healing from trauma, and there’s a little light excerpt of Callum’s DM storytelling which is perfect for ASMR fans. In Callum’s musical selections, there are covers, AI recommendations, songs with videogame connections, and a track which allows Neil to share a peculiar punctuation-related statistic. Podcast Links: Adarga Dungeons & Dragons TestBash Brighton 2018: 99-Second Talks (Callum’s is at the 8min mark) Library of Congress: About LGBTQ Pride Month Twitter: Nicola Martin (namechecked by Callum) Season One Tattoo, Preston (as demonstrated on Callum’s arms) Instagram photo showcasing Callum's sleeve  Resident Evil Wiki: Leon Kennedy Amazon UK: Explore It! by Elisabeth Hendrickson Callum’s blog: Why I’m Talking To Developers About Exploratory Testing Ministry of Testing: The Awesome Power Of The Debrief: Why Debriefing Is The Key To Successful Exploratory Testing Wowpedia: Kobold YouTube: BCS - Being LGBTQ+in Tech and STEM (Callum's talk) Callum’s blog: I Am Proud Callum’s blog: I Get So Emotional - The time I got dismissed for being myself in engineering LinkedIn: TED Talk by Christine Porath - The emotional and financial cost of working with jerks Twitter: Callum and Ramone sharing tips on slide design Ministry of Testing: The Awesome Power of Hosting Test.bash(); 2021 The Addams Family @ Richmond Theatre, October 2022 Callum’s blog: Introducing Ramone, Our Testing Mascot! Callum’s blog: How Dungeons and Dragons helped me to become a better agile team member Chaotic Adequate podcast SurvivorsUK: Using Dungeons and Dragons therapeutically Emma Hopkinson-Spark: Agile 101 TestBash UK 2022 - Manchester Lowry, 22nd-23rd September Callum’s interview with Nicola Lindgren Callum on Twitter: @CAkehurstRyan 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 talks to Sergio Freire about using and contributing to open-source testing related projects. He goes over some recent contributions made back to the community to well-known projects such as Playwright and other contributions that were made from scratch and the rationale behind them. During the conversation,  we'll see testers not only as consumers of open-source testing tools but also as contributors, no matter if they have coding skills or not because testing goes way beyond automation.

Welcome to episode 10 of TestSphere Roulette. Joining Simon at the roulette table are 2 more testing superstars: Kristof van Kriekingen - Test Automation/Performance Test Consultant @ Quality@Speed Nicola Lindgren - Senior QA Engineer @ ustwo The wheel threw out some really interesting topics for conversation: Interruptions - Patterns Always & Never - Heuristics User Friendliness - Quality Aspects Adventurous - Feelings Kristof can be contacted on the following sites:   twitter - @Kristof_vk LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristof-van-kriekingen-241939166/  Nicola can be contacted here: Twitter - @NicolaLindgren LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolalindgren/  Nicola blogs here: https://nicolalindgren.com/ Nicola has written two books, check them out here: https://leanpub.com/u/nicolalindgren As mentioned, Simon will be giving up the hosting of the pod going forward, but will still be around in the background. Kristof will pick up the wheel and take it forward. 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

A discussion with Julie Fuelberth, Product Manager for Ranorex, about why every level of an organization should understand that the ROI of automated testing software is more than an investment to stay competitive, it is about generating innovation to stay ahead of the competition.

Richard is joined by Gabbi Trotter a Digital Recruiter and team lead for a recruiters who specialise in the Software testing recruitment space. The two discuss the role of automation from a recruiters perspective, offering an insight into market trends and what companies are looking for in automators. The discussion help contribute towards Ministry of Testing's new 'Community Curated' Curriculum on automation. Sign up to learn more about how you can help us reshape software testing training.

Mark is joined by Manuel Fidalgo Sicilia a QA Engineer to discuss his role as an automator. The two discuss the various tasks he takes part in on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. As well as deep diving into specific topics and tasks he's involved in. The discussion help contribute towards Ministry of Testing's new 'Community Curated' Curriculum on automation. Sign up to learn more about how you can help us reshape software testing training.

Richard is joined by Erin Donnelly a Senior Recruitment Consultant who specialises in the Software testing recruitment space. The two discuss the role of automation from a recruiters perspective, offering an insight into market trends and what companies are looking for in automators. The discussion help contribute towards Ministry of Testing's new 'Community Curated' Curriculum on automation. Sign up to learn more about how you can help us reshape software testing training.

Richard is joined by Daniel Erasmus a Senior QA Recruitment Consultant who specialises in the Software testing recruitment space. The two discuss the role of automation from a recruiters perspective, offering an insight into market trends and what companies are looking for in automators. The discussion help contribute towards Ministry of Testing's new 'Community Curated' Curriculum on automation. Sign up to learn more about how you can help us reshape software testing training.

Mark is joined by Peet Michielsen a Lead Systems Verification Engineer to discuss his role as an automator. The two discuss the various tasks he takes part in on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. As well as deep diving into specific topics and tasks he's involved in. The discussion help contribute towards Ministry of Testing's new 'Community Curated' Curriculum on automation. Sign up to learn more about how you can help us reshape software testing training.

In an episode delayed by a horrible cold which Neil is audibly still not over, we bring two-thirds of the Tech Team Weekly podcast together as Gwen Diagram arrives for a long overdue (and colourful) testing discussion. We talk about Gwen’s career and tech passions which have burned from a young age, her path from Australia into the UK, and the chance events which led her into IT, into testing, and subsequently into test management and engineering management. We talk about the challenges of big career jumps, speaking at conferences/online, speaking truth to executives, and representing the rights of the humans in our teams, in a session which was 100% not designed to be cathartic for Neil. Honest. Among Gwen’s raucous musical selections, there’s punk, garage rock, songs which cause us to bemoan the passage of time, and the shortest song that’s ever appeared on the podcast (played in its entirety). Plus, Gwen’s Leeds musical roots give Neil the perfect opportunity to finally wax lyrical about his favourite band that nobody’s heard of. Podcast Links: Leeds Testing Atelier Tech Team Weekly podcast The Jesus and Mary Chain YouTube: The Music - Jag Tune (Live at Big Day Out, 2003) YouTube: (EXTREME STROBE WARNING) The Music’s farewell gig in Leeds, 2011 The Simpsons: Wang Computers StepChange Sky - Technology Careers TestBash Manchester 2016: Gwen Diagram - Is Test Causing Your Live Problems? Twitter: Stephen Mounsey Wharf Chambers, Leeds Leeds Testing Atelier 2017: Jurassic Park panel discussion YouTube video for Gwen’s second song selection (as it’s not on Spotify) Neil’s talk “How Testers Can Shape the Next Normal” TestBashX Edinburgh (28 April 2022) Richard Bradshaw - The Future of TestBash LinkedIn: Ministry of Testing Returns to Profit (and What it Means) Monzo Guide Dogs UK LinkedIn flashback photo to 2012 on the London Underground Meri Williams on the Humans+Tech Podcast LeadDev Conferences Glean Careers LeadDev Berlin 2019: Kevin Goldsmith - How does salary work? YouTube: Trailer for Filmage - The Story of Descendents The Phoenix Project Gwen’s website: Diagram Industries Gwen on Twitter: @gwendiagram 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 talks to Cristiano Cunha, the solution architect from Xray about his background, how he got into testing and his job at Xray. Touching almost all parts of IT during his career, he's giving you solid advice on what he would tell himself in the past if he could go back. Cristiano's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Melioth

Kristof talks to Darrel Farris about the shift to quality engineering and how testing teams are adapting

Kicking off our new podcast series, Kristof is joined by Heather Vercillo at TestRail where they discuss TestRail's 2021 annual survey and the future of testing.

Welcome to episode 9 of TestSphere Roulette. Joining Simon at the roulette table are 2 more testing superstars: Beth Marshall (@Beth_AskHer) - Senior Quality Engineer @ Ada Health Mark Winteringham - (@2bittester) - OpsBoss @ Ministry of Testing   The wheel threw out some really interesting topics for conversation: Anger  - Feelings Ikea-Effect - Patterns Risk Analysis - Techniques   Beth can be contacted on the following sites:   twitter - @Beth_AskHer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-marshall/  Before joining Ada Health, Beth did some work as a QA Relations at Mailinator, check out her blogs here: https://www.mailinator.com/site/home-application-minimal/mailinator-blog/   Mark can be contacted here: Twitter - @2bittester LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwinteringham/ Incase you didn’t hear it on the episode, Mark is writing a book. If you’re wanting to learn about Web APIs, this is definitely worth a read - https://www.manning.com/books/testing-web-apis   We also mentioned the very exciting announcement that Testbash X will be coming to Buckinghamshire later in the year. Check out all details here:  https://www.ministryoftesting.com/events/testbashx-buckinghamshire-2022    Thank you to Beth and Mark 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