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Testers' Island Discs Ep16 - Danny Dainton


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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!

Danny's Links:

  • Postman
  • Postman for QA Teams
  • TestBash Brighton 2018: Danny Dainton - Learning to Learn - My Struggles and Successes
  • YouTube: Jim Carrey's parody of Danny's first song choice
  • Neil Studd: Practical Automation: Cinema listings to my inbox
  • Paw - API testing tool for Mac
  • GitHub: Postman Labs
  • YouTube: C'etait un rendez-vous - French short film
  • Chai Assertion Library (used for tests in Postman)
  • Danny Dainton: Hold on, wait a moment... (moment.js)
  • Postman: Integration with Jenkins
  • Postman: Command line integration with Newman
  • Stack Overflow: Danny Dainton's profile
  • Chrome Web Store: Advanced REST Client
  • Neil Studd: Creating my first Slack bot with Heroku
  • Danny Dainton: Hipchat Custom Commands - Continually Improving our processes!
  • Ministry of Testing Dojo: Neil Studd: Supercharging Your Bug Reports
  • POST/CON Postman user conference
  • GitHub Blog: A bright future for GitHub (acquisition announcement)
  • Microsoft Blog: Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers
  • Meetup.com: South West Test
  • SwanseaCon
  • TestBash Manchester 2018
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