Testers' Island Discs

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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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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