In this podcast, Thoms Lavin, Product Manager at mabl, joins the Ministry of Testing to discuss trends in artificial intelligence and low-code, and how mabl makes it easier for anyone to contribute to test creation and maintenance.

Learn more about mabl's Salesforce testing capabilities in this recorded webinar.

Conor Wolford has spent the majority of his young career specializing in software test design optimization. He works with many of the Fortune 500 companies around the globe to ensure teams are taking smarter, more systematic and efficient approaches to designing software tests. As the world gets more and more complex, Conor believes we must find ways to be much more thorough, while still remaining highly efficient, with our software testing efforts.

We encourage you to connect with Conor Wolford on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/conorwolford/

Check out the full DesignWise demo / webinar here: https://www.ranorex.com/automated-testing-webinars/the-how-tos-of-designwise-with-ranorex-studio/

Kristof talks to Sergio about how making tutorials can be a great way to share knowledge, by giving concrete examples that teams can use as a booster to get started quickly and increase the adoption of new testing frameworks or of new CI/CD tools. But making tutorials is not something that is done in an unstructured way; if we want to increase the impact of our tutorials, technical or process related, we need to be more professional. Making a tutorial is like making a recipe; first we need to understand the recipes that are most worth it, then we need to deliver our message in a way that is easy to follow, and then we need to evaluate what we did. Sergio shares his experience with the many tutorials he made for the broad Xray community; maybe something you can also try internally to leverage knowledge within the teams or even as a way to share hands-on information with your customers.

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

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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.

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.

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.