Testers' Island Discs

By Ministry of Testing

Welcome to Testers' Island Discs, a podcast focused around software testing and storytelling hosted by Neil Studd.

The concept is straightforward: each episode, Neil interviews a different member of t... more

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The podcast currently has 63 episodes available.

Testers' Island Discs episodes:

December 26, 2022Testers' Island Discs EP63 - Vernon Richards
Podcast Links:
Vernon Richards & Stu Day - What is Quality Coaching (TestBash UK 2022)
Vernon Richards - The Time I Became Will Smith's Virtual Stunt Double
LinkedIn: Wanda Hawkins-Kavanagh
Twitter: Emma Keaveny
YouTube: Will Smith doing the Carlton Dance on the Graham Norton Show
LinkedIn: Amy Phillips
Toby Sinclair
Barefoot Coaching
Vernon Richards - Myths and Legends of Software Testing (TestBash 2015)
Wikipedia: Socratic method
ORSC (Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching)
ICP-ACC Agile Coaching Certification
Throwcase: That 'Five Monkeys Experiment' Never Happened
Manchester Tech Festival
Ship 30 for 30
Vernon Richards: 3 Things I Learned Writing Online Every Day For 36 Days In A Row
Advent of Code
Yeah But Does It Work? - Vernon's weekly newsletter
YouTube: Alex Isley & Jack Dine - Under The Moon
YouTube: Loyle Carner ft John Agard - Georgetown
YouTube: The Weeknd x DAWN FM Experience (Amazon Prime)
YouTube: Avril Lavigne ft Machine Gun Kelly - Bois Lie
Romanian Testing Conference
Agile Testing Days USA
Testing United Conference
Vernon on Twitter: @TesterFromLeic
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1h 4min
November 28, 2022Testers' Island Discs EP62 - Clare Norman
Podcast Links
TestBash UK 2022: Clare Norman - Quality Coaching: Level 1
Aquafresh
Daily Record: Tesco website crashes as thousands lose spot in queue for Christmas delivery slots
Amazon: Kate Murphy - You're Not Listening
Twitter: Vernon Richards (@TesterFromLeic)
Amazon: Forsgren, Humble & Kim - Accelerate
YouTube: Neha Datt - OKRs: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (AOTB22)
Slate: Elon Musk's Delusional Fixation on Code at Twitter
Amazon: Edgar Schein - Humble Inquiry
Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit
TestBash UK 2022: Vernon Richards & Stu Day - What is Quality Coaching?
Kim Morgan & Geoff Watts - The Coach's Casebook
Mastodon
ReTestBash UK 2022 (1st December 2022)
Clare on Twitter: @ClareCatherine6
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52min
October 31, 2022Testers' Island Discs EP61 - Conor Fitzgerald
Podcast Links:
Poppulo
Ministry of Testing Cork
Cork Toastmasters Club
Powerpoint Karaoke
YouTube: Super Voice series
Ministry of Testing Meetups
Lena Wiberg - Would Heu-Risk It?
Amazon: Kate Murphy - You're Not Listening
Slideshare: Conor Fitzgerald - As testers, do we do more harm than good? (2021 version)
Modern Testing
Conor Fitzgerald - Guiding Principles blog post
Ronald Cummings-John & Owais Peer - Leading Quality
Elisabeth Hendrickson - Explore It!
Kim Scott - Radical Candor
Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit
Conor on Twitter: @ConorFi
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48min
September 26, 2022Testers' Island Discs EP60 - TestBash UK 2022 Special
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41min
August 29, 2022Testers' Island Discs EP59 - Nicola Lindgren
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Nicola's blog
Nicola's new YouTube channel
Leanpub: Starting Your Software Testing Career
Amazon: Starting Your Software Testing Career
House of Test
The Culture Trip: Why High School Celebrations Are So Big In Sweden
YouTube: LifeLikeJosie - What Graduation Is Like In Sweden
Mojovation Consulting - the "germ of an idea" that Neil referred to!
Amazon Direct Publishing: Proof Copies
Google Docs to Markdown converter
Leanpub: Markua manual
Leanpub: How Can I Test This?
YouTube: Nicola Lindgren - The CV that Got Me My First Testing Role
Wiktionary claims that "nicheness" is a word
Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky - Make Time
Gary Keller - The One Thing
Testit 2022 (Malmo, 13 September)
SANAE 2022 (Bratislava, 28-29 September)
Nicola on Twitter: @NicolaLindgren
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44min
July 25, 2022Testers' Island Discs Ep58 - Callum Akehurst-Ryan
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
Callum's interview with Nicola Lindgren
Callum on Twitter: @CAkehurstRyan
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1h 1min
April 07, 2022Testers' Island Discs Ep57 - Gwen Diagram
Podcast Links:
Leeds Testing Atelier
Tech Team Weekly podcast
The Jesus and Mary Chain
YouTube: The Music - Jag Tune (Live at Big Day Out, 2003)
YouTube: (EXTREME STROBE WARNING) The Music's farewell gig in Leeds, 2011
The Simpsons: Wang Computers
StepChange
Sky - Technology Careers
TestBash Manchester 2016: Gwen Diagram - Is Test Causing Your Live Problems?
Twitter: Stephen Mounsey
Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Leeds Testing Atelier 2017: Jurassic Park panel discussion
YouTube video for Gwen's second song selection (as it's not on Spotify)
Neil's talk "How Testers Can Shape the Next Normal"
LinkedIn: Ministry of Testing Returns to Profit (and What it Means)
Monzo
Guide Dogs UK
LinkedIn flashback photo to 2012 on the London Underground
Meri Williams on the Humans+Tech Podcast
LeadDev Conferences
Glean Careers
LeadDev Berlin 2019: Kevin Goldsmith - How does salary work?
YouTube: Trailer for Filmage - The Story of Descendents
The Phoenix Project
Gwen's website: Diagram Industries
Gwen on Twitter: @gwendiagram
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53min
February 25, 2022Testers' Island Discs Ep56 - Lewis Prescott
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Cera Care
TestSphere Roulette Episode (with Lewis Prescott & Karo Stoltzenburg)
TestSphere Roulette Episode (with Neil Studd & Dan Billing)
Ministry of Testing workshop: Introduction to Contract Testing with Pact
Pact documentation (including 5-minute Getting Started guide)
Swagger
Vulture: Jim Carrey not only steals but IS the show on The Weeknd's "Dawn FM"
Pactflow Blog: Proving E2E tests are a Scam
Officelovin: Asos office tour
Pact terminology
Pactflow
Ministry of Testing: Consumer Driven Contract Testing - Raquel Bautista-Garrido
Test Automation University: Contract Tests with Pact - Rafaela Azevedo
Lewis's GitHub profile
Lewis's website: Pactman Consulting
Lewis on Twitter: @WuigPrescott
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34min
January 20, 2022Testers' Island Discs Ep55 - Simon Rigler
Podcast Links:
IQVIA
Neil's attempt to record an episode with tonsillitis
YouTube: Jack Peñate - Second, Minute or Hour
Elucidat
Ministry of Testing: Test.Bash() 2021: 99-Second Talks
YouTube: Mary and Max trailer
YouTube: Live video of Simon's fourth selection
Peter James
Simon on Twitter: @The_Rigler
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1h
December 20, 2021Testers' Island Discs EP54 - Community All-Request Spectacular
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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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35min

FAQs about Testers' Island Discs:

How many episodes does Testers' Island Discs have?

The podcast currently has 63 episodes available.