The Super Testing Bros talk to Paul and Toria about Alan Page and Brent Jensen’s Modern Testing Principles in the June edition of our monthly MoT podcast 2018.

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It's a warm Northern welcome to the island for Claire Reckless, who comes ashore to talk about the Manchester tech scene, her recent ventures into conference speaking and hosting the Software Testing Clinic, and how these play into her ongoing battles with impostor syndrome.

In amongst the discussions about getting out of your comfort zone and overcoming your inner fears, Claire shares the path that she has taken to become more comfortable, and earns brownie points for picking a song by one of Neil's all-time favourite bands.

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You've heard him name-checked for the past few episodes, so now it's time to hear from the man himself, Danny Dainton! Danny talks to us about his unique journey to the island, including a ten-year spell in the military and a difficult first experience with testing.

We get deep into a technical discussion about how to use the API development/testing tool Postman, and talk more broadly about discovery, applied learning, writing and helping others, including Danny's accolades on Stack Overflow - with some seriously varied songs along the way.

If you'd like to reach Danny on social media, head over to @DannyDainton and/or @south_west_test!

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This month, The Super Testing Bros talk to Ashley Hunsberger and Marcus Merrell about the recent changes they’ve made to the SeleniumConf to be more diverse & inclusive, pay to speak, and other conference-related chatter.

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It's time to cross the streams, as Neil is joined by Dan Billing, his co-host on the Screen Testing podcast and an all-round security testing guru.

In a predictably madcap episode, we throw away most of the questions and get into discussing the deep role that music (and movies) play within Dan's personal and testing lives. There's also some serious discussion about Dan's professional influences, mentors, and coping with anxiety, illness and loss.

You can catch Dan on Twitter at @TheTestDoctor!

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This week's guest is Amber Race (@ambertests), who brings a selection of topics for discussion which are almost as eclectic as her musical choices, which include rap, folk, classical and hard rock.

Amber and Neil share anecdotes of bridging the divide between developers and testers, and talk about the importance of empathy, teamwork, gratitude and humility.

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Amber's session at Agile Testing Days 2018

Richard Bradshaw: Launching Automation in Testing

Eater.com: Inside Seattle's new Amazon Go store

BBC News: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Cassandra Leung: I Downloaded My Facebook Data - Here's What I Found

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This month, we talk to Katrina Clokie about her book A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps, a bit about DevOps culture, and what it means to be a tester in the world of DevOps.

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Andrew comes to the island to share stories from TestBash Brighton 2018, highlighting a few of his favourite sessions and drawing parallels to his own career experiences.

He also brings a particularly wide variety of songs spanning a range of genres, including satire, movies, videogames, musical theatre, and artists that it's okay to like even if they're not "cool".

You can reach Andrew on the Ministry of Testing Slack or via Twitter (@TestingChef).

TestBash Brighton talks discussed in detail:

Rosie Hamilton - Discovering Logic in Testing

Danny Dainton - Learning to Learn: My Struggles and Successes

Alan Page - Experiences in Modern Testing

99 Second Talks

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Screen Testing: Doctor Who - The Deadly Assassin (feat. Andrew Morton)

Andrew Morton & Anna Baik talk at TestBash Brighton 2016

Meetup.com: South West Test

Twitter: South West Test

Neil Studd: Lessons learned from six months of refining a presentation

Wikipedia: Inductive reasoning

Wikipedia: Deductive reasoning

Wikipedia: Abductive reasoning

Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles

TED Talks: Shawn Achor - The happy secret to better work

Amazon.co.uk: Adam Kay - The Remains of Tom Lehrer

YouTube: Tom Lehrer - Pollution

Alan Page's Angry Weasel blog

AB Testing podcast

Looney Labs: Fluxx

Ministry of Testing: Choose Not To Be A Software Testing Hero (Ali Hill)

Let's Talk About Tests, Baby: Episode 100 (Live from Brighton)

Patreon: Gem Hill

Elizabeth Sandifer: TARDIS Eruditorum essays

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In this podcast, The Super Testing Bros are joined by Dougie Hoskins and Antonia Landi to discuss all things mobile testing! Find out some of their testing strategies and top tips for testing web apps on mobile and native apps. As well as their thoughts on the benefits and challenges of testing on real devices and simulators.

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