Testers' Island Discs Ep38 - James Thomas




Ministry of Testing show

Summary: <p dir="ltr">Mark is joined by the Test Manager, Association of Software Testers (AST) board member and most importantly king of the puns, James Thomas. The two discuss James’ work with the AST his time running the Cambridge Exploratory Testing Workshop (CEWT) and his own experiences and path to becoming a speaker.</p> <p dir="ltr">Thank you to Browserstack for sponsoring this podcast- BrowserStack is the world's largest software testing platform powering over two million tests every day across 15 global data centers on more than 2000 real devices. With BrowserStack, Dev and QA teams can move fast while delivering an amazing experience for every customer.</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.browserstack.com/?utm_source=MoT&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=annual-sponsorship-podcast">Check out Browserstack</a></p> <h4 dir="ltr">Podcast links:</h4> <ul dir="ltr"> <li><a href="https://s0ftwaretesting.livejournal.com/1430.html%C2%A0" target="_blank">Rule of three</a></li> <li><a href="https://cewtblog.blogspot.com/p/about-cewt.html%C2%A0" target="_blank">About CEWT</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lessons-Learned-Software-Testing-Context-Driven/dp/0471081124%C2%A0" target="_blank">Lessons Learned in Software Testing</a> </li> <li>Gather Collaboration - <a href="https://gather.town/">Gather</a> </li> <li>Software Sequencer - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker">Trackers</a> </li> <li>Managing to Test - <a href="https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/06/managing-to-test.html">Joint post with Lena Wiberg</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/a-galumphing-we-go-james-bach">Galumphing with James Bach</a></li> <li>K-Cards - <a href="https://testingthoughts.com/blog/26">K-cards</a> </li> <li>James’ music <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WXCssD8hRpAbmy_6DCNEYfqKG62JqHan/view?usp=sharing">Glow by The Guy Who Invented Fire</a> </li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/qahiccupps" target="_blank">James’ Twitter</a></li> </ul> <h4>Regular Links:</h4> <ul dir="ltr"> <li>Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ministry-of-testing/id1046372364?mt=2"> iTunes</a> and<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ministryoftesting"> SoundCloud</a> </li> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSff4S2TMvBY-kCH0ILeU0BNykHv7adQJ6izHK7AuDP8XhO5tw/viewform">Sign up to be a guest on the show</a></li> <li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/studleyuk/playlist/5bBsHd7Se0ZUtC7penIXPc">Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/428032-testers-island-discs---castaway-recommendations">Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/TestersIsland">Follow us on Twitter</a></li> </ul>