Testing Peers
Testing Peers is a growing community of ~60 peers in testing, software quality, agility, test leadership, engineering management, and broader software development. We’re united by a shared goal: to drive quality in everything we do within our workplaces and beyond. Through collaboration, accountability, and mutual support, we strive to elevate one another both professionally and personally.
The Testing Peers podcast is now expanding beyond its original four hosts, David Maynard, Chris Armstrong, Russell Craxford and Simon Prior, striving to represent the voices of a diverse and thriving community. Our inaugural in-person conference, PeersCon, launched in Nottingham in March 2024 and will return in March 2025, further solidifying Testing Peers as a not-for-profit, by testers, for testers initiative.
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Testing Debt
Hello and welcome to episode 66 of the Testing Peers podcast.
This week we have a special guest Ugne Litvinaite who joins, David, Russell and Chris as we discuss Testing debt.
Before we delve into the main subject we first explore our favourite Dinosaurs.
Chris explains what we mean by debt and references back to a blog he wrote in 2020 "It's all just a little bit of history repeating..." and the different types of debt: culture, document, shortcut, later, and process debt. He also quotes from Abraham Lincon "Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most"
The Peers move on to discuss intentional vs unintentional debt, discipline, good habits, biases and predisposition to new shiny things before we move to talk about Ugne's gut.
We go on to talk about the debt we've seen and dealt with sharing some of our past experiences.
We hope you found the discussion useful and would love to hear your feedback.
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