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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Authenticity at work
Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast.
This time, join Chris, David, Simon and first-time host, Butch Mayhew.
Ahead of the main topic, Butch asks the group about their ideal superpower. We discuss controlling time, teleportation, flying, awareness (we'll come back to that later in the episode) and Butch's idea to have mustard and ketchup fly out of his fingers, because why not?
The Peers then dive in the topic of authenticity - inspired as a topic by Simon's post on LinkedIn.
What does being authentic at work mean to you?
Values, where I stand, hills that I will die on, credibility, ethics, boundaries.
What does that look like in terms of safety at work? Boundaries? Respect? With different audiences?
Naturally, this can all be influenced by context (it's a Peers pod, of course context comes into it).
We discuss accountability and feedback, as well as mental health, privacy and more.
The Testing Peers Conference 2025 has now launched the CFP open until November 2nd: https://testingpeerscon.com/collaboration-2025/
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