Testers' Island Discs Ep30 - Leigh Rathbone

Mark is joined by one of his favourite people to have a good old chat about testing, Leigh Rathbone. Leigh shares some interesting (and terrifying - Mark) insights into future challenges for software testers and how that is going to impact how we test. The new skills and technologies our industry will face brings the two onto discussing how to keep yourself relevant by learning new technologies and skills and why it’s important to make time to learn. Thanks to WonderProxy who make it easy to test your website from around the world. If you're showing different content to users depending on where they are in the world stop using hacks to see if it's working, and start seeing exactly what your users see with WonderProxy. References: Fail is not a dirty word Atmosphere music video Liverpool Tester Gathering Meetup Ecstasy of Gold (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly scene) - Ennio Morricone Testers' Island Discs Good reads Submit to join Testers' Island Discs Testers' Island Discs - Spotify playlist Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud