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:

September 05, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep23 - Elizabeth Zagroba
Podcast Links:
WNYC - New York Public Radio
Wikipedia: Ys (mythical French sunken city)
The Reddit thread Neil referred to (sadly now with deleted posts)
Wikipedia: Mellophone
Elizabeth's website
Elizabeth's profile on Goodreads
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38min
August 23, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep22 - Michele Playfair
Podcast Links:
YOW! Conferences & Workshops
Gov.UK: Get Into Teaching
First Avenue, Minneapolis
Dan Ashby tweet which I falsely attributed to Stephen Janaway!
Leanpub: Gerald Weinberg - Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method
Leanpub: Gerald Weinberg - Tester's Library
Problem Solving Leadership
Wikipedia: Hearts and minds (Iraq)
Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
YouTube: CukeUp AU 2016 - Amigos Apart (Michele Playfair & Donella Fardoulis)
Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association
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48min
August 14, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep21 - Matthew Bretten
Podcast Links:
Let's Talk About Tests, Baby
Screen Testing - Hackers
Football Manager
YouTube: Frank Klepacki - Hell March
Let's Talk About Tests: Episode 94 (TestBash Manchester 2017 retrospective)
Twitter: Marton Hipszki
Twitter: Liz Keogh
Twitter: Swarnim Kumari
Ministry of Testing: Tester Types e-book
IFTTT (If This Then That)
Ministry of Testing: How To Use Python To Automate Almost Anything
Twitter: Kristoffer Nordström
Wikipedia: Music of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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35min
July 31, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep20 - Mark Winteringham
Podcast Links:
Automation in Testing
Ministry of Testing Dojo course: Introduction To HTTP (by Mark Winteringham)
Ministry of Testing Dojo course: Let's Build an API Checking Framework (by Mark Winteringham)
Ministry of Testing Dojo course: The Building Blocks of the Internet (by Mark Winteringham)
Screen Testing Ep6: Swordfish (featuring Mark Winteringham)
Bandcamp: Biases
Bandcamp: The Wub
Mind
Twitter: Simon Prior
Meetup.com: Ministry of Testing Aylesbury
Meetup.com: South West Test #12 with Neil Studd
Twitter: Abby Bangser
Ministry of Testing Dojo: TestBash 2018: Emily Webber - Communities of Practice, The Missing Piece of Your Agile Organisation
Amazon: John Timpson - Upside Down Management
mi.mu Gloves
YouTube: Richard Bradshaw - Automation in Testing (SoftwareTestPro podcast)
Satisfice.com: Rapid Software Testing
Ministry of Testing Dojo: TestBash 2015: Automation in Testing
MW Test Consultancy
Hindsight Software
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47min
July 16, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep19 - Maaike Brinkhof
Podcast Links:
Journey Into Quality (Maaike's blog)
Sensibly
Bluedot Festival 2018
Maaret Pyhäjärvi: Learning through Osmosis
Mob Testing: An Introduction & Experience Report
Maaike's mob programming slide deck for her team
Neil's mob programming slide deck
Woody Zuill: Mob Programming
Hanselminutes podcast: Mob Programming with Woody Zuill
Rich Rogers: Q&A with Neil Studd
Wikipedia: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Maaike's blog series: Mapping Biases to Testing
David McRaney: You Are Not So Smart (website)
You Are Not So Smart podcast
Wikipedia: Confirmation bias
Wikipedia: Cognitive dissonance
Wikipedia: Loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy
Wikipedia: Hindsight bias
Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing (DEWT)
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47min
July 09, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep18 - Paul Maxwell-Walters
Podcast Links:
Paul's Testing Rants blog
Meetup.com: Sydney Testers Group
Twitter: Troy Hunt
Wikipedia: Huntsman spider
Australian Government: Temporary Work (Skilled) visa #457
Australian Government: Current visa programs
WeTest Conference, New Zealand
BBC iPlayer: HyperNormalisation
YouTube: HyperNormalisation (for those who can't access iPlayer)
Testing Rants: On Simulations, HyperNormalisation and Distorted Reality in Software Teams (Part 1)
Wikipedia: Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation
BBC Sport: World Cup 2018: Sweden 0-2 England
YouTube: Bitter Lake
Wikipedia: Death march (project management)
Wikipedia: Korean Air Flight 801
Gerald Weinberg: Agile and the Definition of Quality
YouTube: Sydney Testers Official
Australian Testing Days
Twitch: TestingRants live streams
YouTube: Paul Maxwell-Walters (Twitch stream archive)
The Guilty Tester podcast: Episode 2 - Neil Studd - Bugs
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42min
June 21, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep17 - Claire Reckless
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MoneySuperMarket
Nordic Testing Days
YouTube: Nordic Testing Days 2018 presentations
Manchester Evening News: BBC's Salford move key to Northern Powerhouse
MediaCityUK
NWEWT (North West Exploratory Workshop on Testing)
Liverpool Tester Gathering
Twitter: Jit Gosai (@JitGo)
MoT Dojo: TestBash Manchester 2017 - Claire Reckless: The Fraud Squad
Let's Talk About Tests, Baby: Episode 94 - Sound Effects and Overdramatics: The retrospective (featuring Claire)
Cambridge Folk Festival
Agile Manchester 2018
Daily Mail: Female doctor locked out of gym after computer assumed she was a man
Agile Testing Days
Aylesbury Tester Gathering - August Meetup
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42min
June 07, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep16 - Danny Dainton
Podcast 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!
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
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40min
May 21, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep15 - Dan Billing
Podcast Links:
Screen Testing podcast
YouTube: On Her Majesty's Secret Service opening theme (John Barry)
Wikipedia: List of music featured on Doctor Who
IMDB: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Ian Dury movie)
Chailey Heritage Foundation
Brittany Hunter: Of Software Designers & Broken Combs
Rob Lambert: T-Shaped Testers and their role in a team
TestBash Brighton 2013: Bill Matthews - Context Driven Security
Dan Billing: Introducing... Ticket Magpie
Twitter: David Hatanian
Twitter: Franzi Sauerwein
GitHub: Danny Dainton - All Things Postman
OWASP Juice Shop Project
Meetup.com: Liverpool Tester Gathering
Troy Hunt
YouTube: Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
TestBash Philadelphia 2017: Dan Billing - How To Be A Redshirt And Survive
YouTube: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - What Are Midichlorians?
YouTube: Coldplay - Midnight
Spotify: Dan's "Security" playlist
Spotify: Dan's "Testing Soundtracks" playlist
Hacker Typer
IMDB: High Fidelity
Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones
James Bonding podcast
Wikipedia: General Data Protection Regulation
Twitter: Richard Bradshaw: "If you don't mention risk at least once a day..."
YouTube: South Park - Kyle's Mom's A B****
YouTube: The Simmertones - Dr Who
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49min
May 10, 2018Testers' Island Discs Ep14 - Amber Race
Podast Links:
Amber's session at Agile Testing Days 2018
Richard Bradshaw: Launching Automation in Testing
Eater.com: Inside Seattle's new Amazon Go store
BBC News: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Cassandra Leung: I Downloaded My Facebook Data - Here's What I Found
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34min

FAQs about Testers' Island Discs:

How many episodes does Testers' Island Discs have?

The podcast currently has 63 episodes available.