What would you do when you are asked to provide estimations on “How long it will take to test” something, without getting much more than the title of a feature or an Epic. Sounds made-up? Believe it, it is not!

E32 - Frustrations In Testing And What To Do About Them

Apr 29th, 2020 32m 42s

Ever felt like testers have a frustrating job? I have had my share of places and times when I found myself working with people and testing in organizations and products that were really annoying!What are the most common frustrations in testi

E31 - Testing From Home, Pitfalls & Tips

Apr 15th, 2020 35m 45s

If you are listening from somewhere in the Civilized world (with some exceptions around China and the Scandinavian countries) you are probably listening to this podcast from home. You are keeping social distance, and coping with new work & lif

E30 - Continuous Improvement - Sounds Good, But How Do You Go About It

Apr 1st, 2020 31m 36s

What does Continuous Improvement have to do with Testing? Good question.This topic is not only related to testing, but it is definitely needed in every team, and testers are specially positioned to drive change and especially improvements, a

E29 - Metrics - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Mar 18th, 2020 33m 17s

Is there a more controversial topic in testing? Yet a tool more widely used by testing teams?We count everything - how many tests have we run, how many bugs, what is the relationship between developers and testers, how many minutes before lu

E28 - Testing Success is Reliant On Good Storytelling

Feb 12th, 2020 32m 24s

In today’s podcast episode we’re going to talk about how to tell better stories

E27 - Why do we have test ops?

Jan 29th, 2020 26m 14s

Let’s try to analyze together what Test Ops means, or what it may mean, and get an idea of what practical things we can get from it in order to improve the value we provide as testers in our teams.

E26 - What’s The Deal With Regression Testing

Jan 2nd, 2020 34m 38s

E26 - What’s The Deal With Regression Testing by Rob Lambert & Joel Montvelisky

E25 - How Did Rob And Joel Get Started In Testing?

Dec 18th, 2019 33m 38s

Today we review how we became testers in the first place. How was the world back then, and then try to understand if the world today is so different from what it was back then.

E24 - Do I Need To Write My Test Cases Before I Run Them?

Oct 30th, 2019 29m 13s

I’ve had many chats with testing peers who chose to invest (or maybe waste) their time explaining why writing down test cases upfront is a waste of good testing efforts, and why it is simply better to test and then choose what to report or comm

E23 - Agile "not Done By The Book"

Sep 23rd, 2019 24m 59s

A theme that you hear all the time is that, Development adopted Agile, but everyone forgot to think about testing as part of this adoption.So today, let’s talk about this, what happens when your team adopts Agile, but they do not do it “by th

E22 - How To Get Started In Testing When You Do Not Have Any Previous Experience

Aug 7th, 2019 25m 36s

It is a fact the fact is that many companies are looking for junior testers with some testing experience, but then again how can you get that initial experience to get started in testing?

E21 - What To Include In A Training Program For New Testers

Jul 25th, 2019 26m 29s

We all have new testers joining our teams and it is always a question what should we include in the initial training program for a new tester?

E20 - How To Share Data Generated By Users In Testing?

Jul 11th, 2019 21m 37s

E20 - How To Share Data Generated By Users In Testing? by Rob Lambert & Joel Montvelisky

E19 - Can We Help Developers Test?

Jun 27th, 2019 27m 32s

How can we help our developers to test and to test better? We all have been asking ourselves for a long time if developers can test. What can we do to help our developers?

E18 - testing an application used by people from many countries and backgrounds

May 29th, 2019 23m 42s

When we think about an application, we need to first of all think about the users who will be interacting with it, and how their context, cultural baggage, constraints, etc will influence the way they use it.

E17 - Managing And Reporting Exploratory Testing

May 15th, 2019 32m 27s

There is an approach to testing called Exploratory Testing and it is important to know how to use it, when to use it, how to manage it, what are its strengths and some of its weaknesses and we want to talk about this today

E16 - Managing Global Testing Teams

Apr 23rd, 2019 30m 51s

The world is now a Global Village, and this is bringing many good things, but also quite a lot of challenges.

E15 - Bug Bug Bugs P2

Apr 9th, 2019 28m 40s

[Part 2 from Joel and Rob all about software testing bugs.]Bugs are an important part of the work of testers, but for some reason, we tend to take them for granted and don’t invest the proper value and thoughts to them.

E14 - Bugs..bugs...bugs [Part one]

Mar 26th, 2019 29m 51s

Bugs are an important part of the work of testers, but for some reason we tend to take them for granted, and don’t invest the proper value and thoughts to them.

E13 - How to hire testers

Mar 13th, 2019 46m 30s

Some tips for hiring managers and testers both seeking the next best thing. Get the other side's perspective to help move forward.

E12 - Master Test Plan

Feb 26th, 2019 34m 1s

Joel and Rob discuss the current meaning of creating a master test plan in the age of Agile and DevOps. "The fact we moved to Agile and that we are working more on the UserStory level should not mean that we do not need to plan our testing".

E11 - How to Drive Quality in Your Organisation, Regardless of the Organisation You’re In?

Feb 12th, 2019 43m 35s

Testers or Quality Assurance?Can we influence or drive quality? Should we?People can and should, but not everyone can. And some organisations do not welcome it. We can and should, but not everyone CAN right now.It’s all about communication

E10 - Quality Culture

Jan 29th, 2019 29m 23s

Culture is nothing more than group habit - it’s what people do every day. So in order to change a culture to one of a “quality” one, you must identify the behaviors that lead to good outcomes and encourage these throughout the organization.

E9 - Is Software Testing More About Testing Or Programming

Jan 15th, 2019 30m 54s

Is Software Testing More About Testing Or Programming?As the testing world evolves, the lines between tester and developers are starting to fade. Testers now need to have some programming abilities as well.