Testing Peers

About Testing Peers

Testing Peers is a community-driven initiative built by testers, for testers. We are a not-for-profit collective focused on supporting each other across software testing, quality, leadership, and engineering. This group is peer-led, values-driven, and passionate about shaping a more thoughtful, collaborative testing culture. 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, returning for #PeersCon25, with #PeersCon26 already scheduled - further solidifying Testing Peers as a not-for-profit, by testers, for testers initiative.

Publisher

Testing Peers

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 May 2020

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

15 of 154 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Getting a Seat at the (AI) Table

   Host Chris, Russell, and Tara interview Richard Hinton about how testing and quality engineering skills evolve in the AI era.

2. 

   8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why We Still Love Testing

   Host Chris, Russell, and Tara interview Linda van der Vooren about the enduring joys and fulfilling aspects of software testing, even amidst challenges.

3. 

   11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Intellectual Territory

   What are you known for? Is it what you want to be known for? And how much control do you have over either? In this episode of the Testing Peers, Chris Armstrong, Russell Craxford, Dan Ashby and Tara Walton explore intellectual territory: the ideas, problems and patterns of thinking we repeatedly return to. Against a backdrop of AI, changing roles and questions about future relevance, the Peers discuss whether intellectual territory is something we choose, discover or have placed upon us by ot...

Inside a recent episode

Getting a Seat at the (AI) Table

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] They produce an AI sales agent and had spent I think it was a good 18 months basically scaling up the company from an existing product to an AI centric sales agent. And they get a lot of lessons there learned very deep into how to engineer something with AI built in at the core. And one of the hardest things is integrating data engineers who had been working at a very different pace in a very different sort of environment, into fast-paced, product-led, agile at first, then it moved into a more product-led environment. And I've got to say, it was interesting, but also a big eye-opener, because shift left, which everyone keeps talking about, was something that was needed. […]

Who has been a guest on Testing Peers

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Richard Hinton
• Linda van der Vooren
• PeersCon 26 Programme Committee
• Al Goodall

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

4.9 / 5

16 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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