Testers' Island Discs Ep18 - Paul Maxwell-Walters

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Our latest castaway is Paul Maxwell-Walters, joining us from Down Under to compare and contrast England and Australia, and discuss his upcoming talk at TestBash Australia, "Avoid Sleepwalking to Failure! On Abstractions and Keeping it Real in Software Teams".

We get into a bunch of philosophical and real-world political discussions, drawing parallels to our experiences in the world of software testing, sharing tales of teams who may have fallen foul of "sleepwalking" through their processes and discussing tips on how to help teams to negotiate these everyday pitfalls, and how to speak up within harsh working environments.

If you'd like to chat to Paul, you can reach him on Twitter @TestingRants, and learn more about the Sydney Testers meetup group @SydneyTesters.

Paul's Links:

Paul's Testing Rants blog

TestBash Australia 2018

Meetup.com: Sydney Testers Group

Twitter: Troy Hunt

Wikipedia: Huntsman spider

Australian Government: Temporary Work (Skilled) visa #457

Australian Government: Current visa programs

WeTest Conference, New Zealand

BBC iPlayer: HyperNormalisation

YouTube: HyperNormalisation (for those who can't access iPlayer)

Testing Rants: On Simulations, HyperNormalisation and Distorted Reality in Software Teams (Part 1)

Wikipedia: Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation

BBC Sport: World Cup 2018: Sweden 0-2 England

YouTube: Bitter Lake

Wikipedia: Death march (project management)

Wikipedia: Korean Air Flight 801

Gerald Weinberg: Agile and the Definition of Quality

YouTube: Sydney Testers Official

Australian Testing Days

Twitch: TestingRants live streams

YouTube: Paul Maxwell-Walters (Twitch stream archive)

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