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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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This Is The Way
Thank you for joining episode 111 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time Chris, David, Dermot & Sanne talk on the theme of 'This is the way', otherwise known perhaps as the gospel according to....
Before the main discussion, Sanne asks the group about any new to the Peers recipes or restaurants, so now I'm a little hungry.
*good time to pause for a snack*
Chris then introduces the Mandalorian theme. What are those absolute truths that we see some follow.
Is it testing/checking? The testing pyramid? Given, when then?
A couple of blog posts referenced from 2016:
Dan Ashby: https://danashby.co.uk/2016/10/19/continuous-testing-in-devops/
Del Dewar: https://findingdeefex.com/2016/05/20/the-testing-checking-synergy/
Should models be rigidly and explicitly followed or are they useful tools to achieve a common understanding.
As ever, we discuss not only the value of context, but also of pragmatism as well as the appreciation of the etymology.
We speak to experience bias and theory vs reality.
The conversation closes with Chris referencing Leigh Rathbone's 10 leadership lessons from Ted Lasso talk.
https://prezi.com/p/ja_fnx4qvujy/ted-lasso/
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