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Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. Simon, David, Chris and Sam spend some time discussing the topic of linguistic gatekeeping and how sometimes our language can exclude people from conversations
Chris starts us off with the banter topic of our experiences of "I Told You So" moments, after discussing several scenarios from our childhood, with everything from beach balls in the sea to broken bones as the outcome, it seems we have definitely learned the hard way.
The key to this discussion is certainly that language and how we use it can be power. Within the world of software, there are lots of examples where we have used language as a way to block progress in the conversation, whether this is down to deliberately trying to exclude others by going into too lower level of detail or using politics to prove a point.
Where have you come across this kind of gatekeeping and how did you overcome it?
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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, as the Peers talk about owning your career.
Callum starts us off with important banter on snackage, before we head into sharing our own career stories and discussing what owning your career means along with our own challenges and some words of wisdom. 
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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 with the banter, asking the peers which films they have turned off or left the cinema because they were rubbish, various films mentioned, although the northerners on the recording seem to never walk out on anything.
On the main topic, the discussion around what we've said no to in the work/community environment, from not doing talks or taking on too much extra curricular activities and putting yourself first. Getting overwhelmed is never a good thing to allow happen too often and knowing your limits should be seen as a positive.
The key message here is that it is OK to not say yes to everything asked of you. What can you say no to, to protect your mental health or wellbeing?
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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 Peers talk about measuring.
On the week of our first #PeersCon event, Tara breaks the ice, asking us our favourite and least favourite parts of conferences.
Then we dive in.
The team discussed the traps of bad metrics, gamification, toxic culture and talk about the importance of value and relevancy in what we report on with a few tales from Chris (as per usual).
We do share other tips and tricks, Russell mentions DORA metrics.
What struggles have you had with metrics? Better yet, what success stories have you had?
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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 perfect way to explain exploratory testing.
We dive into our first experiences of automation, going back a while, talking about different tools, tech debt and the frustration. We talk about the joys of source control.
We talk about going full circles from automation to aid us to focusing on the UI automation then end to end testing then back to using automation to help make life easier again. We ponder is automation about making testing more effective, and quality better or saving money?
Discussions move on to talk about creating automation tests and understanding the risks to decide what to test and how both are now common requirements in testers. 
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Testing Peers podcast has reached 100 episodes!

Beth Marshall (10 episodes), chairs this special look back and forward episode, joined by Simon Prior (78 episodes), Russell Craxford (88), Chris Armstrong (93) and David Maynard (96).
Beth skillfully guides the conversation to talk about the podcast and beyond, what are we most proud of?
A few little peeks behind the curtain, including some insight into how long the editors typically take per episode. Many thanks to you David and Russell 3
The Peers talk about successes and failures, which leads to us discussing tips for those who want to create their content.
The group then close by looking forward to March 14th 2024, with the inaugural Testing Peers Conference.
Thank you for joining us on this journey so far, please continue to provide feedback, we only improve thanks to you.
Finally, to all our co-hosts and episode contributors......in addition to the five in this episode, we have another 21 wonderful humans joining us to date:
Dave Shorter, Bruce Hughes, Shey Crompton, Steve Watson, Ugne Livinaite, Dan Ashby, Steven Warburton, Emna Ayadi, Neil Studd, Heather Reid, Vernon Richards, Sam Nitsche, Tara Walton, Beth Clarke, Callum Akehurst-Ryan, Dermot Canniffe, Beren van Daele, Sanne Visser, Lena Nyström, Ben Dowen & Jon Richardson.
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