In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Dana Aonofreisei whose workshop is 'Leading a Test Automation Strategy'

The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you.

To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Abby Bangser whose workshop is 'What is testing in production and why would we ever do that?!'

The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you.

To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Simon Berner whose workshop is 'Git Foundations'

The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you.

To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Louise Gibbs whose workshop is 'Visual Facilitation and Sketchnoting'

The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you.

To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Roman Segador whose workshop is 'How to solve integration issues with Contract Testing'

The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you.

To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Jenna Charlton whose workshop is 'Team Care: Making Mental Health an Agile Practice'

The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you.

To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

Happy new year everyone and happy new podcast season! Carlos kicks things off with a chat with Ash Winter about their new Dojo Course all around Operability. They talk about what Operability is, why it's important, how testers can be involved and leverage it, and what the course will be covering.

If you would like to take Ash's new course, click to learn more about 'Improving your testing through operability'

In the final island broadcast of 2020, Drew Pontikis floats by to build upon last episode’s discussions around shaping quality culture within your organisation, and how you can help by developing communities of practice.

We touch upon Drew’s experiences with starting the Ministry of Testing Peterborough meetup group, with some top tips on how to create a group from scratch, including some valuable advice about not losing your passwords.

As we’re feeling festive, there’s also a bit of chat about so-bad-they’re-good films, we look back on 2020 and forward to 2021, and Neil makes the sort of promise that you shouldn’t make on a publicly-available podcast.

(Note that Neil has since realised that his own Beatles anecdote actually related to “When I’m Sixty-Four”, rather than the song being discussed on the podcast, but it was too good to leave out!)

In this Podcast, Mike chats with David Burns covering the topic of Automated testing and how to find a balance between Manual and Automated testing.

David is the Chair of the W3C Browser Testing and Tools Working group and co-editor of the WebDriver specification, trying to ensure automation frameworks in browsers are interoperable. He was an engineering manager at Mozilla within Developer Experience working on tooling and infrastructure to help make a better web and now heads up the Open Source work at BrowserStack. David has been a core contributor on the Selenium project for over a decade supporting Firefox and the Python client bindings.

The discussion covers how "When you're a hammer, everything will look like a nail", "The Shift Left approach" and

In this podcast Mark meets Valentin a software testing professional for more than ten years. Valentin has worked in several roles, including test environment management, manual functional testing, mobile, and testing process improvement.

The two get together for a discussion and a reflection on COVID-19 testing and what the challenges of testing for the virus can teach us about the challenges we have in software testing. And more specifically automation for software testing.

This podcast is sponsored by Sauce Labs