The Evil Tester Show - Software Testing and Development with Attitude
Episodes
Agentic AI Software Testing and Development with Dragan Spiridonov
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode is a chat with Dragan Spiridonov who created the Agentic QE fleet. Agentic AI for Quality Engineering. It can work with code, or ...
AI Optimism and Pessimism
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Based on my experience with AI, am I optimistic or pessimistic. I gain huge value from AI during development, but have I managed the same in Testing? ...
Mastering Automatability for Test Automation
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The answers given during a Browserstack Community AMA session held on Discord on the 11th of December 2025, following a live LinkedIn video stream. Th...
Test Code Migration not Test Cases
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Should you use AI to help you migrate test automation code? And what should you actually migrate, the tests coverage hasn't changed. In this episode w...
Building a Job-Hunting Portfolio for Software Development and Testing
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Should you have an online portfolio showcasing your Software Development and Testing skills to help get a job? It really depends on the recruitment p...
Respect in Software Testing and Development
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing deserves respect. Doesn't it? But so does every role in Software Development: managers, testers, QA, programmers, Product, Everyone. ...
Software Testing Strategy vs Planning The Strategy Episode
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing typically confuses a Test Strategy Document with the process of strategising. Alan Richardson simplifies the over complicated world o...
Software Testing Job Market with Jack Cole
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you trying to figure out how to break into the software testing job market or make your next big move? This episode of the Evil Tester Show dives ...
Practicing Software Testing - Guest James Lyndsay
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is a skill and like all skills require practice, that's what makes you a practitioner of Software Testing. In this episode we're divi...
Context in Context Driven Software Testing
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Effective Software Testing is highly contextual: we adapt what we do to the project and the process. In this episode of The Evil Tester Show, host Al...
The Test Automation Pyramid Episode
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing and Development professionals often mention the Test Automation pyramid when describing Test Autoamtion. Let's do a deep dive and exp...
The Test Cases and Scripts Episode
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is often taught with a focus on Test Cases and Test Scripts. But this is the 2025, we don't test like it's 1984 any more. Let's revi...
The Manual Testing Show
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing often looks at the exactitude of language. We look for ambiguity in Software Requirements, we find gaps in Specifications, so it's no...
Manual QA is Dead
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is going through a time of change. This episode explores how we can adapt. Manual QA is dead. Companies are getting rid of their QA ...
Test Automation Biases
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is highly contextual and requires flexibility in our approach and thinking. But we are only human and sometimes we have beliefs and b...
Exploratory Testing Government Guidance
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is often a proprietary process where we never share how we are doing it. Governmens are an exception because they make public a lot o...
Recruiting Testers
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is a hard activity to recruit for,.Recruiting Testers is hard. What we want to do is minimise the friction and barriers. In this podc...
How to Get a Job In Software Testing
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What can someone in Software Testing do to improve their chances of getting a job? That's what we consider in Episode 013 of The Evil Tester Show cove...
Tips for Talking at Online Conferences
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wanted to talk at a Software Testing conference? Or even just be effective when you present over Zoom. This episode is for you. More and more co...
What Should I Be? Programmer or Tester?
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing often doesn't get the respect it deserves so people wonder if a career in Software Testing is worth it. I do receive a lot of emails ...
The Automate or Die Special - do you have to automate to survive in testing?
15 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is not the same as Test Automation. But so many people seem to think so. I receive a lot of concerned emails and messages from teste...
The Why Special - do you ask why? How else can you ask questions that get results?
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing can be seen as the art of asking questions to Software. So we have to learn how to ask effective and targeted questions. That's the f...
What is Software Testing? A look at definitions, my definitions, models and why you should create your own.
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is Software Testing? A Hard Question. But many people want easy answers. In this episode we look at: - popular definitions for interview an...
The Finding Tools Special - tactics and strategies for choosing testing tools
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When I'm Software Testing I use tools. We all do, even if it is just a keyboard and mouse. But we need specialised Software Testing tools to help us i...
The Workarounds Special - how to bend the rules rather than break them
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is the art of not folowing the rules. No-one else treats the software the way we do. This has a knock on effect on manyt workplace pr...
The Rejection Special - strategies and tactics for when you get pushback
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing isn't easy. We say hard things. And we get push back. In this podcast we talk about Rejection. You will receive rejection in many pa...
New Year Special 2018 - setting goals and following through rather than resolutions
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing skills have a wider reach than we think. In this episode we look at how to use your Testing Skills to define goals and plans - The Ev...
Black Friday Special - thoughts on automating, confidence and options
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing a retail site becomes really important at specific peak times of the year. In this Black Friday Special of The Evil Tester Show Podca...
Provocative Therapy and Quality Coaches - getting to the root of Agile Testing
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing often means challenging beliefs and changing minds. Where can we learn those type of skills? The book Provocative Therapy has had a b...
Halloween Special 2017 - seeking out and dealing with anomalous phenomena
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Software Testing is the act of entering into the unknown, we don't know what we will find. We are in the Uncertainty Business. We find and investigat...