Episode 139: The Genius of Tangents
We talk more about Lencioni's working genius model, and attempt to attach it to a mailbag question about how projects get done in a modern testing world.
10 Mai 202152min
Episode 138: So you want to "get into automation"
We discuss one of the age-old questions of software testing. How does a "manaual tester" 'get into' automation.
26 Apr 202148min
Episode 137: Personality Types
We dive into our history of personality type tests. Starting with the classic MBTI, we move to Insights, Strengths Finders, and then Working Genius (we also briefly mention our Harry Potter houses). Meyers Briggs Insights Strengths Finders Working Genius
5 Apr 202150min
Episode 136: Learning stuff, and why testing isn't quality
This time we talk a bit about learning (including an upcoming webinar from alan - https://www.meetup.com/Pacific-NW-Software-Quality-Conference-PNSQC/events/276239634, and talk about quality vs. testing - which is just another framing of principle 5 of the modern testing principles.
22 Mar 202147min
Episode 135: Record, Playback, and Personality
We talk a bit about personality types (more on this in 136), touch on some thoughts on record & playback automation, and a few other tangential topics. Books mentioned on this podcast include: Accelerate (Forsgren et al) Radical Candor (Scott) Where Good Ideas come from (Johnson) How to Measure Anything (Hubbard) Lean Startup (Ries) The Leaders Guide to Radical Management (Denning) Drive (Pink) One more for the bookshelf that we didn't call out is Principles of Product Development Flow (Reinertsen)
8 Mar 202149min
Episode 134: Easier, Faster, Safer
It's a bit of a meandering discussion this time, but we dance around the role of teams that support other teams success. Here's the blog post link Brent refers to in the podcast - Test Doesn't Understand the Customer
22 Feb 202149min
Episode 133: Test Ownership and Test Automation
We reflect a bit on Alan's recent article (inspired by episode 132), and then talk quite a bit about the correlation of test automation ownership and quality. We hope you enjoy the show.
1 Feb 202148min
AB Testing - Episode 132: Mindsets and Metrics
It's our first episode of 2021 - where we talk (a little) about the US political situation, then discuss mindsets and skillsets - and then wrap things up with a discussion on estimation metrics.
11 Jan 202152min