After two laptops failures, lost software key and three more TestBashes (they just keep coming!) Mark is back once again and this time he’s joined by Simon Prior to discuss learning, leadership and culture. Simon shares his experiences working as QA Programme Manager for Camelot as well as his ongoing mission in supporting testers both at work and in the community in becoming better testers.

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Mark is back after a brief distraction called TestBash Germany and TestBash Manchester. This time he’s joined by world champion tester, accessibility advocate and wrestling enthusiast, Jenna Charlton. Following on from Jenna’s successful live stream of her talk ‘How Pro Wrestling Made Me A World Champion Tester’, the two discuss culture, team dynamics and collaboration. Mark also gets some tips on how to get into wrestling and finds out more about what is happening at the Ministry of Testing Cleveland meetup.

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Using the power of Twitter, we reached out to the software testing community to find new podcast hosts for the Ministry of Testing podcasts. From our search, we connected with some lovely folks who were each set the challenge of creating a pilot podcast with a guest from an upcoming TestBash software testing conference.

Here is Carlos Kidman's pilot podcast where he got to meet Angela Riggs from TestBash San Francisco and discuss test automation and the culture of quality. We hope you enjoy the podcast and get in touch to let us know what you think!

P.s. Did you know you can listen to and subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes and SoundCloud?

Using the power of Twitter, we reached out to the software testing community to find new podcast hosts for the Ministry of Testing podcasts. From our search, we connected with some lovely folks who were each set the challenge of creating a pilot podcast with a guest from an upcoming TestBash software testing conference.

Here is Michael Lang's pilot podcast where he got to meet Theresa Neate from TestBash Australia and discuss all things DevOps! We hope you enjoy the podcast and get in touch to let us know what you think!

P.s. Did you know you can listen to and subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes and SoundCloud?

In this episode, Mark is joined by Christian Kram a man who has a wide range of experiences and roles that have informed his testing and training skills. The two discuss the challenges of being a trainer and training others, communication techniques, working in a company that self organises and has no leaders as well as how to test mattresses. 

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It’s Mark’s first outing as the castaway host and he’s feeling a little nervous without Neil around. Fortunately he is kept company by the awesome Nancy Kelln who has joined him on the island to discuss life as a Testing Consultant. Nancy shares how she got into consultancy work as well as pros and cons around forging your own path and helping others. The duo also discuss exploratory testing, risks and their connection to all things testing.

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This special episode of Testers' Island Discs is sponsored by SmartBear. SmartBear is behind the software that empowers developers, testers, and operations engineers at over 22,000 of the world’s most innovative organizations with tools to build, test, and monitor great software, faster.

After a great deal of exploring the island, hence the absence, Neil has found a new castaway host for the island: DojoBoss Mark Winteringham (By stealing his boat!). But before Neil leaves, he has one last podcast to share with Mark in this special episode of Testers’ Island Discs.

During Mark and Neil’s catch up they discuss their testing lives, what they have been up to, highlights in the testing world and a brief therapy session for our departing castaway.

Whilst Mark will be taking over the TID podcast, you can still keep up to date with Neil’s other podcast work on Twitter.

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Advice for new testers, and, what excites us about testing in 2019! Featuring Alix Klingenberg, Francis Ho, Bas Dijkstra, Lee Hawkins, Victoria Lee, Mike Clarke, Vera Gehlen-Baum and Rick Tracy.

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This month the Super Testing Bros caught up Melissa Eaden and Martin Hynie who recently attended TestBash San Francisco 2018. They discuss mentoring in software development and beyond.

If you like to catch up with Melissa or Martin you can find them on Twitter  @melthetester and @vds4, respectively.

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! 

This month The Super Testing Bros were fortunate to catch up with Selena Delesie and Marianne Duijst during WeTest Conference 2018 here in New Zealand. We discuss leadership, how leadership isn’t reserved to just people in authority and how authority doesn’t make you a leader.

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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!