Summary: <p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d69459e1-7fff-1285-bcee-f7feee7e9f55"><span>We’re doing it live! For our five-year anniversary, Neil throws caution (and editing) to the wind as he roams The Lowry in Manchester during TestBash UK 2022, contending with challenges including a tea service, a hotel restaurant, tannoy systems, outside broadcasts and interviewing multiple guests at once.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>Betwixt the background buzz, we talk to speakers and attendees about the return of face-to-face events, the novelty of a multi-track TestBash, and the common themes that we observed during the two-day conference, including quality engineering, culture, coaching and cognition.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>There are music selections as usual, with a mixture of new and old, and a first appearance for possibly the quintessential 90s one-hit wonder (even though Neil is aware that they actually had multiple follow-up singles).</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>With thanks to all of our guests who volunteered their time for this episode: Yanir Taflev, Alex Reynolds, Simon Prior, Vernon Richards, Stuart Day, Diana Dromey, Julia Förster and Steve Moss.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span>Podcast Links:</span></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><span>Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on</span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ministry-of-testing/id1046372364?mt=2"><span> </span><span>iTunes</span></a><span> and</span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ministryoftesting"><span> </span><span>SoundCloud</span></a></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSff4S2TMvBY-kCH0ILeU0BNykHv7adQJ6izHK7AuDP8XhO5tw/viewform"><span>Sign up to be a guest on the show</span></a></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/studleyuk/playlist/5bBsHd7Se0ZUtC7penIXPc"><span>Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify</span></a></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/428032-testers-island-discs---castaway-recommendations"><span>Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads</span></a></p> </li> <li dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/TestersIsland"><span>Follow us on Twitter</span></a></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p>
