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What If We Started a Testing Consultancy?

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Russell, Chris, Tara, and David explore what a testing consultancy could look like if you stripped it back and built it around values...

International Womens Day

06 Mar 2026

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This episode of Testing Peers is published in recognition of International Women’s Day (8 March).International Women’s Day is a global moment to r...

Bring your hobbies to work

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.In this episode, Veerle, Chris, Russell and Tara explore how hobbies influence the way we lear...

Change for Good

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Chris Armstrong, Rachel Kibler, Tara Walton, and Russell Craxford d...

Flow, Friction, and Value

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hello friends, and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.In this episode, Chris, Dan, David, and Russell come together for a wide-ra...

Spending Your Training Budget Wisely

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year, Peers!!Welcome to the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast, this time panel explores how testers and quality professionals can ...

12 Bugs of Christmas 2025

21 Dec 2025

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High Performing Teams Playbook

07 Dec 2025

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Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. In this episode, Simon, David, Chris and returning host, Dan Ashby explore what makes a high-...

Testing Rants II

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 139 of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, the Peers dive into the sequel to episode 39, for Testing Rants part 2. Hosting this e...

Quality Career Beginnings

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 138 of the Testing Peers PodcastIn this episode, Chris, Rachel, David and Russell discuss how people begin their careers in testing...

Personal Branding and Social Media

28 Oct 2025

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Welcome to episode 137 of the Testing Peers podcast!This time, join  Callum Akehurst-Ryan, Russell Craxford, Chris Armstrong and David Maynard as we ...

Strategy: Test X Quality

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 136 of the Testing Peers podcast.In this episode, David, Chris, Russell and Tara dig into a question from #PeersCon25 speaker, Stua...

Testing in the Age of AI

19 Sep 2025

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Welcome to episode 135 of the Testing Peers Podcast. This time join Chris, Russell, David and the returning Jon Robinson as we talk all things AI in t...

Sharing Quality with Non-Testers

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Episode 134 of the Testing Peers podcast. This week, join Simon, David, Tara and Chris.How do we explain testing and quality to people who ...

Influencing Quality

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 133 of the Testing Peers podcast.In this episode, the Peers (Chris, Callum, David and Russell) explore the complex and often subtle...

Software That Cares

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 132 of the Testing Peers Podcast.This time, joining David and Chris are the returning Rachel Kibler and first-time host Vanessa Zet...

PeersCon 26 Programme Committee and Theme Launch

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a special episode of the Testing Peers to announce our Programme Committee and Theme for PeersCon 26, which is happening on 12th March 2026...

Knowledge Resilience

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 130 of the Testing Peers Podcast.This time join David, Russell, Chris and Dermot as we talk Knowledge Resilience.After an ice break...

Bad Quality By Design

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, join David, Chris, Sanne and Beth as we discuss Bad Quality By Design (a more SF...

Making Work Visible

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast. On this episode, Chris, Simon and David are joined by first time co-host Rachel Kibler. The P...

Getting Quality a Seat at the Table

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast. On this episode, Chris, Russell, David and Simon talk about how we can ensure Quality has a s...

Storytelling

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris, Russell and David are joined by the returning Sam to talk about a topic close to all testers h...

Testability

20 Feb 2025

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Hello and welcome to episode 125 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, joining Chris, Russell and David is the returning guest host, Al Goodall.Befo...

Transformations

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This week join Chris, David, Shey and Russell as the Peers talk about transformat...

Professional Development

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. David, Russell and Chris are joined by Sergio Friere to talk about all things Professional De...

Holiday Season Backlog Refinement

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Seasons Greetings! Thank you for joining us for our fifth annual podcast at Christmastime, this year's festive cheers with the Testing Peers brin...

Tools for Testers

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us for episode 121 of the Testing Peers Podcast.This time, join Chris, Tara, Russell and David as we discuss tools for testers.B...

Does the role of the SDET have a future?

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another Testing Peers podcast episode.This time, join Chris, David, Richard Bradshaw and Al Goodall (whose surname Chris had some real issu...

What's Next? (Careers)

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, Chris is joined by Vernon Richards, Heather Carter and Richard Hinton to talk about ...

Authenticity at work

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Letting Go

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 117 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, join Chris, David, Russell and Heather as we discuss closure and letting go!Heather kic...

Single Points of Failure

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, Jesper Ottosen joins Russell, David and Chris as we discuss single points of failur...

No Testers, No Problem

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, join Chris, Russell, Callum Akehurst-Ryan & Leigh Rathbone as we talk on the t...

Learning Fast

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks for joining us for episode 114 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, Ben Dowen joins Russell, David and Chris as we dive into the topic of le...

Emotional Intelligence

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us for episode 113 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, Sanne Visser & Vernon Richards join Chris & David to discuss ...

Building Testing Teams

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us for episode 112 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time around we are talking on the topic of building testing teams, with Sim...

This Is The Way

17 Jul 2024

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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&...

Quality Engineering

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast. Chris, David, Russell and Simon talk about one of the big buzzwords in the industry at presen...

Presentations

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello friends, thank you for joining us for the latest episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, join Russell, David, Chris & Dermot as we d...

Emergent Requirements

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 108 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, join Russell, David, Callum & Dermot as they talk requirements, emergent ones at th...

Square Peg, Round Hole

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris, David and Russell are joined by Bruce for this one to discuss the topic of "Square Peg, R...

#PeersCon24 Retrospective

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, Simon, Chris, David and Russell look back at the huge success that was the first Tes...

Linguistic Gatekeeping

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. Simon, David, Chris and Sam spend some time discussing the topic of linguistic gatekeeping an...

Owning Your Career

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 104 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time around we have a special trio of Callum Akehurst-Ryan, Russell Craxford & Ben Dowen,...

Saying No

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. Beth Marshall joins Chris, David and Russell to discuss the topic of saying no.Chris starts w...

Measuring

10 Mar 2024

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Welcome to episode 102 of the Testing Peers podcast.This time around join Tara Walton, Chris Armstrong, Russell Craxford & David Maynard, as the P...

Changing Face of Automation

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Rich Bradshaw, Simon, David and Chris talk all things automation.Banter this week is brought to by Rich as we discover TK Maxx is the ...

Testing Peers 100

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Testing Peers podcast has reached 100 episodes!Beth Marshall (10 episodes), chairs this special look back and forward episode, joined by Simon Prior (...

Failures

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One away from the big 100, what better way to celebrate than talking about our experience with failures? Simon, Chris, Russell and David share stories...

Meetings

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. On this episode, Chris, Russell and David are joined by a new guest, Jon Robinson. The topic ...

Collaboration

31 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year from the Testing Peers!In this episode, the FullSnackTester, Ben Dowen joins Russell, David and Chris as we talk collaboration.Before t...

Would Heu-risk it? at Christmas

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Merry Christmas, season's greetings and happy holidays from the Testing Peers!Welcome to our fourth annual festive episode.Steve Watson, Tara Wal...

Do we Need Managers?

03 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining the Testing Peers for another episode. On this one, Chris, David, Simon and Russell discuss the role of the manager and whether ...

Being Not Doing - #PeersCon24 Programme Theme

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, join Chris, David, Vernon and Russell as they discuss the topic of 'being not ...

Fighting Fires

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. The Awesome foursome back together again with the topic of fighting fires and some of the additional ...

First Impressions

22 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the latest edition of the Testing Peers podcast. This time, David and Chris are joined by Dermot and also brand new host Sanne. The peers a...

Flow Work

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers, this week David, Beth, Chris and Russell. This week we focus on flow workRussell is on banter duty th...

Testing Misconceptions

24 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers and in what is fast becoming a rare event, the band are back together, with Russell, Chris, David and ...

Risk Appetite

09 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris and Simon are absent again so David and Russell are joined by 2 new guest hosts in Dermot Canni...

Feedback

27 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, join Chris, David, Tara and Callum as we discuss the topic of feedback.Be...

Testing as a career: is it worth it?

13 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This week join Russell, David, Chris and first-time host, Beth Clarke, as the Peers discuss ca...

Content Creation

30 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.Tara Walton and Vernon Richards join Chris on this week's episode as we talk about conten...

Red Flags

16 Jul 2023

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Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This time, join David, Chris, Simon and guest-host, Steve Watson, as we talk about red flags.B...

Deadlines

02 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 84 of the Testing Peers podcast.This week, Sam Nitsche joins regular hosts David, Russell and Chris as we discuss deadlines.After i...

Delegation

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. A fully stacked panel for this episode with Simon, Russell and David being joined by Shey and Beth (s...

Healthy Workplace Expectations

03 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome, this week, join Russell, David, Chris and special guest host, Vernon Richards as we discuss healthy workplace expectations and if we're ...

Anxiety - Mental Health Awareness 2023

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back for another episode of the Testing Peers. We are releasing this on the back of Mental Health Awareness Week 2023, which has the theme of ...

What do testers do?

07 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast, and this release falls almost three years after episode one. Thank you for joining us on this...

Quality Shift

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Regular hosts Chris, David and Russell are joined by the Semi-Regular host Shey to discuss all about ...

Testers' Growth

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This week, join Russell, David, Simon and special guest host, Dan Ashby as we discuss growth a...

Testing Leadership

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers!This week, join Simon, David, Russell and (semi-regular) Shey as they talk about leadership in testing...

Testing Opportunity Knocks

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the new episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, the peers talk about experience with moving onto new opportunities. For this we had ...

Strategies for Testing

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Regulars Chris, Simon, Russell and David this week talk all things strategies. Before diving into th...

Building Team Resilience

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris, Russell and David are joined by a special guest and artist of the amazing Testing Peers logo, ...

Glue Work

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to episode 73 of the Testing Peers podcast, where this week we are talking about glue work.This week, regulars Chris, David and Russ...

30 Things Every New Tester Should Learn - 6 Years On

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

elcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast, this time we have a slightly different show for you.Regular host, Chris is joined by the wonde...

Testing Market Trends

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Happy new year! We hope all our listeners have a great 2023. Thank you for being with us on the journey, we hope you all continue to enjoy the podcast...

Christmas Past, Present and Future

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to episode 70 of the Testing Peers podcast.As we're drawing toward Christmas this week we thought we'd do a special. Takin...

Staying Connected

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. The original crew (Chris, David, Russell and Simon) are discussing how we can stay connected in the t...

Planning and Estimation

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.Join David, Simon, Russell and Chris as we talk about planning and estimatio...

Testing Conferences

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to episode 67 of the Testing Peers podcast.This week we have special guests Beth Marshall and Steven Warburton who joins regulars, D...

Testing Debt

09 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Switching Off

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to episode 65 of the Testing Peers podcast.This week, join Simon, David, Russell and Chris as we discuss Switching Off.Prior to the ...

Test Cases

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast - and sorry this one is a little late.This week, join Simon, Russell, David and Chris as we di...

Hybrid Working

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast.Join Shey, David, Russell and Chris as we discuss hybrid working.We begin with Russell asking ...

Communication

14 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast.In this episode we're joined by two special guests, Shey Crompton and Steven Warburton in...

Complacency

31 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers Podcast.Before diving into the topic of complacency, the newly crowned 'Mr. Bantz' asks the ...

How Testing Impacts Business Goals

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Chris, Simon, David and Shey are here to discuss another great topic. This time it is one that was su...

Toxicity in Testing

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers.Chris and Russell have returned from their EuroSTAR adventures, to join the other regulars to talk tox...

#MakeATester Update

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. With Chris and Russell galavanting off at EuroStar 2022 in Copenhagen, Simon and David drafted in som...

Testing Models

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, we talk about our experience with models for testing. This takes us down the journey...

Public Speaking

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. On this episode, we will discuss our experiences around Public Speaking. This covers everyt...

Loneliness - Mental Health Awareness Week Special

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 55 of the Testing Peers podcast.This episode falls on the same date as the start of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, and this yea...

Testing in Agile

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. Today we talk Agile and our experiences around itThis week Simon banter borrows his banter id...

Experience

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 53 of the Testing Peers podcast!In this episode, the Peers are talking about Experience – what it means to us in the workplace, h...

Testing Job Titles

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. On this episode, we discuss the important and often talked about topic of Job Title...

Persuasion

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. On this episode, the peers discussion the topic and the ‘art’ of persuasion. Covering wha...

Testing Community

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us once again, especially this special episode as the Testing Peers podcast reaches the milestone of 50 episodes published!This ...

Testing Mindset

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and thank you for joining us for another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.This episode, the Peers are exploring the oft-spoken testing minds...

Semantics - Manual Testing

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Testing Peers this episode we discuss the term manual testing. Does the term simplify our craft? Is manual testing writing step by ste...