Neil draws 2021 to a close by welcoming calls (and emails, and Rackets) from across the testing community. Our magnificent seven guests share a festive retrospective on their accomplishments of this year, and set themselves some targets for 2022. And Neil answers the same questions for the sake of balance.

Among the bumper crop of songs featured in this round-up, there are tracks with Danish, Spanish and German lyrics; four songs which were actually released this year; two returning guests pick songs by artists that they’ve chosen before; and we get a light dusting of metalcore for good measure. Plus, a lot of the songs seem to be swearier than usual!

We hope that you enjoy this little slice of something different, and look forward to welcoming you back to our regular service at the end of January.

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Ministry of Testing: TestBash UK announcement

Racket

YouTube: Sheppard - On My Way (Live From Eurovision Australia Decides)

Test Automation University: API Test Automation with Postman (Beth Marshall)

The Coders Guild

YouTube: Official video of Beth’s pick, with some 80s special guests

Beth’s blog posts about Postman Flows

YouTube: Software Testing And Quality Talks channel by Venkat

CNN: The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet

Testers Rage! playlist on Spotify

Testing Peers podcast

Simon Prior on the More Than Work podcast

Neil’s blog: PIVOT! (Job update)

Twitter thread about Neil’s favourite German pop songs

YouTube: Piano acoustic version of Neil’s song selection

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