Testing In The Pub

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 team. We mention the concept of four key metrics; lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to restore (MTTR) and change fail percentage and the book Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim. It’s well worth buying The post Assessing Testing and Deployment – Episode 56 appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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 at https://leadingqualitybook.com, and read a free chapter from the book or pre-order the whole thing The post Leading Quality – Episode 55 appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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 all things code and test coverage related and discuss how they’ve reported on quality and testing efforts in the past. As always, we’d love to hear about your experiences and how you do things. So drop us a line at testing@testinginthepub.co.uk, leave a comment on the website or contact us on Twitter or Instagram (@testinginthepub). The post Code Coverage and Test Coverage – Testing In The Pub Episode 54 appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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 the moment actually all about? As always, if you’ve got ideas, things you want to share, suggestions for future episodes or feedback on this one then we’d love to hear from you. Either leave a comment or tweet us @testinginthpub. The post Cultures – Testing In The Pub Episode 53 appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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 finish up talking about how people can get involved in the community. The post Episode 52 – Communities appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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. The post Episode 51 – More On Hiring appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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 Thanks to everyone who’s listened so far, we’ve got lots more great episodes planned to stick around for what comes next. The post Episode 50 – Hiring appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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? Hopefully this episode starts to answer these questions. There’s more to come so listen to future episodes where we’ll delve into all of this in more detail. The post Episode 49 – Leadership vs Management appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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 links on Huib Schoots site: http://www.huibschoots.nl/wordpress/?page_id=441#science   The post Episode 48 – More Psychology In Testing appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

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, the BDD specialists for their continued support of Testing In the Pub. The post Episode 47 – AI and Ethics and Quality appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to Testing In The Pub, Episode 46 – APIs At ATD. In this episode Steve sits down with Mark Winteringham and Eddy Bruin at Agile Testing Days 2017 to talk about API testing. We also mention a whole bunch of tools and resources including; Postman Pact Swagger SoapUI If you want to try out API testing and need an API to test then Resftful Booker, written by Mark, is a great one to start with. The post Episode 46 – APIs At ATD appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub where we continue the series on Psychology In Testing and talk about Ignorance. We talk about: What is ignorance and what’s it’s relationship to information? What is the value of understanding ignorance? Being unaware of ignorance Why we can never know everything The 5 orders of ignorance How ignorance grows faster than knowledge How when we answer one question and gain knowledge, that knowledge causes us to learn about more ignorance The Dunning Kruger effect and the lemon juice bank robbery. How do we actually discover more? Processes/activities Investigation Testing The post Episode 45 – Psychology In Testing – Ignorance appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub, the first of a series on Psychology In Testing, where we talk about Information. What role does information play in a software delivery team and how should you approach discovering and sharing information? The post Testing In The Pub Episode 44 – Psychology In Testing – Information appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub and it’s time for Testing In The Pub Episode 43 – What Makes A Good Manager? In this episode Steve and Dan talk about management, what makes a good manager and give some examples from their experiences of management of teams. The post Testing In The Pub Episode 43 – What Makes A Good Manager? appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to another episode of Testing In The Pub – Breaking Into Agile Testing. In this episode we talk about how to get started when testing in an agile team, we discuss the challenges that testers face, and give some hints and tips on how to succeed. When working in, and running, agile teams […] The post Testing In The Pub Episode 42 – Breaking Into Agile Testing appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub – At UKStar. Me and Dan were lucky enough to be selected to speak at the first UKStar conference in London. Dan talked about setting up the software clinic and I talked about the view of testing from outside of the testing industry. But more importantly we were in the same place for once, and able to record a Testing In The Pub! And here it is – a simple chat about testing and being technical. Hope you enjoy it. The post Testing In The Pub Episode 41 – At UKStar appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to another Testing In The Pub, recorded this time at the Software Testing Clinic in London. In this episode Dan sits down with Paul Holland, Ben Kelly, Vernon Richards, Mark Winteringham, Alex Wolff, Evan Holland and probably a couple of other people as well Over a few beers they talk about Rapid Software Testing, context driven testing, their experiences of testing in different circumstances and cultures, and how to test products for different markets. There’s some great tips on how testing can really bring customer value as well. You can follow Paul, Ben, Vernon and Mark on Twitter so if you want to continue the conversation with them then that’s the best place to go. As always, if you’ve got feedback on this episode or any of the other ones then it’d be great to hear from you. Just leave a comment against this post or find us on twitter @testinginthepub The post Testing In The Pub Episode 40 – At The Software Testing Clinic appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome to Testing In The Pub Episode 39 – Live From TestBash Philadelphia. We were lucky enough to be invited over to TestBash in Philadelphia to record a live episode in front of the conference crowd. And even better, we were given an actual pub to record in! In this episode we talk about the future of testing and community. Listen to us and special guests talk about where we think testing is heading and why. We also talk about why we started Testing In The Pub and why starting a podcast or any other sort of community activity is extremely personally rewarding, as well as being an important part of what keeps the testing community as vibrant and useful as it is. Have a listen and hopefully we’ll you want to do the same.   The post Testing In The Pub Episode 39 – Live From TestBash Philadelphia appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to episode 38 of Testing In the Pub – Making Better Testers with Keith Klain. In part two of a two part episode we talk to Keith about how we can help testers and the testing community to improve and keep learning. Keith spends a lot of his time promoting and educating people about better testing practices such as Context Driven Testing and the transition to better testing, particularly in the enterprise. Have a listen as we discuss this and our experiences of older and more traditional ways of working. Be sure to listen to part 1 as well You’ll also be pleased to hear the Keith is on Twitter @keithklain and he has a blog: www.qualityremarks.com. Keith works at Tekmark You can also catchup with Keith at: TestBash Philly: http://www.ministryoftesting.com/training-events/testbash-philadelphia-2016/ Agile Testing Days: http://www.agiletestingdays.com/session/tbd-02/ Copenhagen Context: http://copenhagencontext.com The post Testing In the Pub Episode 38 – Making Better Testers With Keith Klain – Part 2 appeared first on Testing In The Pub.

Welcome back to episode 37 of Testing In the Pub – Making Better Testers with Keith Klain. In part one of a two part episode we talk to Keith about how we can help testers and the testing community to improve and keep learning. Keith spends a lot of his time promoting and educating people about better testing practices such as Context Driven Testing and the transition to better testing, particularly in the enterprise. Have a listen as we discuss this and our experiences of older and more traditional ways of working. If you like what you hear then you’ll be pleased to know that this is only the first part of our discussion. Check back soon for part 2. You’ll also be pleased to hear the Keith is on Twitter @keithklain and he has a blog: www.qualityremarks.com. Keith works at Tekmark You can also catchup with Keith at: TestBash Philly: http://www.ministryoftesting.com/training-events/testbash-philadelphia-2016/ Agile Testing Days: http://www.agiletestingdays.com/session/tbd-02/ Copenhagen Context: http://copenhagencontext.com The post Testing In the Pub Episode 37 – Making Better Testers With Keith Klain – Part 1 appeared first on Testing In The Pub.