Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub – it’s episode 56 where we talk about Assessing Testing and Deployment with Amy Phillips. In this episode Steve and Amy talk about how to assess a team or company’s testing and deployment activities, whether you are new to the company or looking to improve an existing … Continue reading Assessing Testing and Deployment – Episode 56 →

Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub, Episode 55 – Leading Quality. In this episode we sit down with Ronald Cummings-John to chat about his new book Leading Quality, and how we can all help to change the quality narrative in organisations. You can learn more about the new book, written with Owais Peer … Continue reading Leading Quality – Episode 55 →

Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub, its episode 54 – Code Coverage and Test Coverage. How do you measure your testing effort? And how do you report on it? Is it as valuable as it could be, and adjusted for the audience who will read it? Listen to Dan and Steve chat about … Continue reading Code Coverage and Test Coverage – Testing In The Pub Episode 54 →

Welcome to Episode 53 – Cultures, another podcast from Testing In The Pub. In this episode we have a chat about cultures. Are cultures forward or backward looking? Can you build a culture or does a culture just evolve? Who is responsible for a culture? What’s this “Culture of Quality” thing that’s so trendy at … Continue reading Cultures – Testing In The Pub Episode 53 →

Welcome back to another Testing In the Pub, Episode 52 – Communities. In this episode we talk about communities. Inclusive vs exclusive,  internal vs external and how the communities have helped us. Is the  industry is in trouble because external communities don’t mix? And what are we doing to try and solve that? We then … Continue reading Episode 52 – Communities →

Welcome back to another Testing In the Pub – Episode 51 – More On Hiring. In this episode we finally continue our chat about hiring. Sorry it’s been so long coming. In it we talk about a lot of things hiring related, including portfolios. The blog post Steve mentions is this one.

Yes, it’s episode 50 – Hiring. In this episode we talk about hiring, both from the perspective of someone wanting to be hired, and someone hiring. It’s the first part of a two part episode. As you may notice we ‘may’ have forgotten that we’ve reached the landmark of 50 episodes. Oops

Welcome to this episode of Testing In the Pub, it’s Episode 49 – Leadership vs Management. In this episode we sit down and discuss the differences between leaders and managers. Can everyone be a leader or a manager? What are the common misconceptions in managerial and leadership skillsets? How does coaching and mentoring fit in? … Continue reading Episode 49 – Leadership vs Management →

Welcome back to another Testing In the Pub, Episode 48 – More Psychology In Testing. In this episode we expand on our previous discussion about Psychology In Testing and talk more about ignorance, biases and emotions. There’s some great resources out there if you want to find out more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases http://www.developsense.com/presentations/2013-05-STAREast-EmotionsInSoftwareTesting.pdf https://www.slideshare.net/sjanaway/testing-your-emotions http://www.corvusintl.com/CACM002-5OI.htm And lots of great … Continue reading Episode 48 – More Psychology In Testing →

Welcome back to Testing In the Pub Episode 47  – AI and Ethics and Quality In this new episode we talk about AI and how it’s being used particularly in virtual assistants, how ethics are important, and how all of those presents opportunities for those of us involved in software quality. Thanks to Hindsight Software, … Continue reading Episode 47 – AI and Ethics and Quality →