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:

November 19, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep53 - Kelly Kenyon
Podcast links
Testers' Island Discs Episode 48 - Beth Marshall
The Peace Artistes
The Coders Guild
Netflix: Coded Bias
Ady Stokes: Introducing a 7th Thinking Hat
Kelly's blog (including Software Testing Bootcamp Showcase video)
Kelly's Software Testing portfolio on Trello
Trello Power-Ups: List Limits
IFTTT
Zapier
Trello for Gmail Add-on
Kelly on Twitter: @KellyKenyon14
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40min
October 15, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep52 - Gabbi Trotter
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Searchability
Meetup.com: Ministry of Testing Manchester
Meetup.com: QA Beginners Club
TestBash Manchester 2020: Gabbi Trotter - How to Build Your Personal Brand
BBC News: Scotland to trial a four-day week
Tech Team Weekly: Talking Openly About Pay
Netflix: Taylor Swift - Miss Americana
LinkedIn: Chris George post about CV length
Ministry of Testing: The Club
Gabbi on Twitter: @Gabbibility
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52min
September 26, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep51 - Chris Armstrong
Podcast links
Testing Peers podcast
IMDb: Kinect Disneyland Adventures
Last.fm Kinect announcement
Wikipedia: California Department of Fair Employment and Housing v Activision Blizzard
Polygon: Cyberpunk 2077 [CD Projekt Red] has involved months of crunch, despite past promises
Football Manager
Championship Manager 01/02: Tapani patch and its successors
Neil's favourite Championship Manager 2 cheat
Wivenhoe Town FC
Cabinteely FC
Visit St. Neots
Wikipedia: John Bellingham
Chris's "Self-Retrospective" blog post
The Club: Google hangout for testers
The Club: 24 Hours of TestBash Home Charity Marathon
TestBash Home 99-Second Talks (beginning with Chris' song!)
Chris' blog post featuring lyrics from his final song choice
Geordie Test Atelier
Tech Team Weekly
Chris on Twitter: @christovskia
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1h 10min
August 25, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep50 - Sam Connelly
Podcast links
Sams' personal website (BugHunterSam.com)
Twitch: BugHunterSam
Twitch: noopkat
Twitch: NeilStudd
YouTube: Sam Connelly
YouTube: Neil Studd (Let's Explore)
Sam's blog: Time zone testing considerations
YouTube: Video demonstrating Sam's range of audiovisual equipment
YouTube: Matt Parker - Why are Talk-Show Hosts So Bad at YouTube?
Calendly
Sam' "About" page, which lists her personal values
BogLogger: Tracking Your Poo
Kirsten Schultz: Spoon Theory
Wikipedia: Confirmation bias
YouTube video for Sam's fifth selection (featuring the violumpet!)
Tech Team Weekly podcast
Sam on Twitter: @BugHunterSam
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57min
July 13, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep49 - Thomas Rinke
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SWR3
Ministry of Testing: The Club
Richard's posts about the Future of TestBash
Wikipedia: Scaled agile framework (SAFe)
YouTube: AgileTD: Janet Gregory - Testing is a Team Problem
Wikipedia: Behaviour-driven development (BDD)
James Bach: Exploratory Testing 3.0 ("All testing is exploratory")
Alex Schladebeck on Twitter: @alex_schl
Exploratory Testing: What are microheuristics and how can you find and use them? with Alexandra Schladebeck
Exploratory Testing Week 2021: Video of Thomas's experience report
Exploratory Testing Week 2021: Thomas's Club thread with mind maps
99-Minute Workshops: Lena Wiberg: Speed-testing Using Mind-maps
Berlin Marathon
Netflix: Coded Bias
Better Allies on Twitter: @betterallies
Cucumber Podcast: Sexual Harrassment in Tech
Ben Dowen on Twitter: @FullSnackTester
Tester of the Day on Twitter: @TesterOfTheDay
Tester of the Day nomination form
Agile Testing Days
Thomas on Twitter: @thomrinke
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57min
June 25, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep48 - Beth Marshall
Podcast links:
Twitter Spaces
The story of Beth's first internet search
TestBash Home 2021
FailQonf
TestBash Manchester 2020: Beth Marshall - The Average Tester
Beth's Reputation Audit blog post (with template)
The Coders Guild
Twitter: Ady Stokes
Ministry of Testing Essentials
Simon Prior - #MakeATester
Testing Peers podcast
Ministry of Testing: 99-Minute Workshops
YouTube: How Sky Sports hijacked Beth's third song choice
Angie Jones: 10 portfolio projects for aspiring automation engineers
Test Automation University
Postman
TAU: Amber Race - Exploring Service APIs through Test Automation
Postman Galaxy conference
The Guilty Tester podcast
Twitter: Julia Pottinger
The Testing Panda - Andy Knight
Wikipedia: Illusory superiority (reference to "driving ability" opinions)
Beth on Twitter: @Beth_AskHer
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1h 1min
May 21, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep47 - Simon Tomes
Podcast Links:
YouTube: Simon's Exploratory Testing Conversations series
YouTube: Simon's conversation with Lee Hawkins
Simon's blog: Encourage new voices
Tim's Twitter Listening Party
Explore Galore: 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
Wikipedia: Pomodoro Technique
YouTube: Prince - Batdance
Categorising notes with PQIP (Problems, Questions, Ideas, Praise)
Twitter: Rajit Singh
YouTube: Let's Explore, Episode 4: Neil explores with TestBuddy
Simons' "bold boast": Welcome to Adventures in Community Building
YouTube: Bernard Purdie explains the Purdie Shuffle
Simon on Twitter (@simon_tomes)
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1h 5min
April 20, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep46 - Lee Hawkins
Podcast Links:
Leanpub: An Exploration of Testers
AST: Navigating the World as a Context-Driven Tester
World Time Buddy (Cross-timezone meeting planner)
YouTube: Jonathan Coulton - Mandelbrot Set
YouTube: Status Quo opening at Live Aid, 1985
YouTube: Bula Quo trailer
Wikipedia: Exploratory Testing
James Bach & Michael Bolton: Exploratory Testing 3.0
Agile Manifesto
Ministry of Testing: Websites to Practice Testing
TestBash Australia 2018: Adam Howard - Exploratory Testing Live
YouTube: Neil's Let's Explore! Video series
YouTube: Sam Connelly Let's Test paired exploratory testing series
YouTube: Simon Tomes’ TestBuddy Conversations series
James Bach & Michael Bolton: Testing and Checking Refined
[PDF link] Tea Time with Testers, March 2021 (featuring Rob Sabourin's "Simple Experience-Based Test Estimation" article)
Francis Rossi autobiography - I Talk Too Much
YouTube: Douglas Adams telling the "biscuit story" to David Letterman
Association for Software Testing on Twitter (@AST_News)
YouTube: Lee's exploratory testing discussion with Simon Tomes
Lee on Twitter (@TheRockerTester)
Lee's website
Dr Lee Consulting
Dr Lee's Status Quo website
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1h
March 15, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep45 - Lina Zubyte
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Lina Zubyte: 2020 - The Year of Discovering What Actually Matters
Wikipedia: Yes Man
Screen Testing: Episode 14 - Yes Man (feat. Leigh Rathbone)
Shona Rhimes - Year of Yes
Slack: Donut app
Filter Magazine: Johann Hari's Journey of Discovery About Depression (featuring the cow story)
TestBash Netherlands 2020: Lina Zubyte - A Tester's Guide to Managing Biases
Ministry of Testing Dojo: Lina Zubyte - Inclusivity in the Time of Corona
Jennifer Brown - How to be an Inclusive Leader
Beyond the Status Quo #4 - Diversity Hiring
Lina article series about inclusion
Jennifer Brown - The Will to Change podcast
YouTube: A&A Days 2018 - Lina Zubyte - It's Tricky: Chatbots & QA
Caroline Criado-Perez - Invisible Women
YouTube: Racist hand dryer
Wikipedia: The meaning behind the song title of Lina's fourth choice
Huffington Post: Jia Jiang's 100-day "Rejection Therapy" (doughnut story with video)
YouTube: TestFlix 2020 - Lina Zubyte - The Secret Must-Know Best Practice
Wikipedia: The story behind the recording of Lina's fifth choice
Lina on Twitter: @buggylina
Lina's website: qualitybits.tech
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52min
February 18, 2021Testers' Island Discs Ep44 - Viv Richards
Podcast Links:
The other Viv Richards, if you don't know what the intro is all about
Leonardo Giroto - Visual Regression Testing overview
Selenium
Martin Fowler - The Practical Test Pyramid
Happo and Percy (other tools are available!)
Viv's self-built C# visual testing tool on GitHub
Ministry of Testing: Web API Automation Experience Report - Beth Marshall and Viv Richards
The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Testers podcast series
GitLab - Embracing Asynchronous Communication
Postman
Leanpub - Around the World with 80 Software Testers
Viv on Twitter: @11vlr
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46min

FAQs about Testers' Island Discs:

How many episodes does Testers' Island Discs have?

The podcast currently has 63 episodes available.