Testers' Island Discs Ep16 - Danny Dainton

This episode of Testers' Island Discs was supported by TestRail, the test management tool that makes testing simpler - it works the way you test. Learn more and try it for free at www.gurock.com/testrail. You've heard him name-checked for the past few episodes, so now it's time to hear from the man himself, Danny Dainton! Danny talks to us about his unique journey to the island, including a ten-year spell in the military and a difficult first experience with testing. We get deep into a technical discussion about how to use the API development/testing tool Postman, and talk more broadly about discovery, applied learning, writing and helping others, including Danny's accolades on Stack Overflow - with some seriously varied songs along the way. If you'd like to reach Danny on social media, head over to @DannyDainton and/or @south_west_test! Danny's Links: Postman Postman for QA Teams TestBash Brighton 2018: Danny Dainton - Learning to Learn - My Struggles and Successes YouTube: Jim Carrey's parody of Danny's first song choice Neil Studd: Practical Automation: Cinema listings to my inbox Paw - API testing tool for Mac GitHub: Postman Labs YouTube: C'etait un rendez-vous - French short film Chai Assertion Library (used for tests in Postman) Danny Dainton: Hold on, wait a moment... (moment.js) Postman: Integration with Jenkins Postman: Command line integration with Newman Stack Overflow: Danny Dainton's profile Chrome Web Store: Advanced REST Client Neil Studd: Creating my first Slack bot with Heroku Danny Dainton: Hipchat Custom Commands - Continually Improving our processes! Ministry of Testing Dojo: Neil Studd: Supercharging Your Bug Reports POST/CON Postman user conference GitHub Blog: A bright future for GitHub (acquisition announcement) Microsoft Blog: Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers Meetup.com: South West Test SwanseaCon TestBash Manchester 2018 Regular Links: Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud Sign up to be a guest on the show Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads Follow us on Twitter