Testers' Island Discs Ep19 - Maaike Brinkhof

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. Our latest special guest is Maaike Brinkhof, one of our most musically adept castaways so far, for some discussion about the connections between learning to play an instrument and striving for self-improvement as a tester. We discuss human biases (part of Maaike's upcoming talk at TestBash Manchester), the joy of mob programming, helping teams to uncover unknown unknowns, and the benefits of utilising "analog time" to recover from the madness of the world. On the music front, Maaike's selections are a mixture of metal and classical, with some interesting symphonic and folk-infused subgenres between the grunting! For those who'd like to explore metal some more, Maaike has created a communal playlist "Testers Metal top songs" on Spotify. If you'd like to get in touch with Maaike, her Twitter account is @Maaikees. Maaike's Links: Journey Into Quality (Maaike's blog) Sensibly TestBash Manchester 2018 Bluedot Festival 2018 YouTube: ATD2017 - Maaret Pyhäjärvi: Learning through Osmosis (Mob Programming) MoT Dojo - Maaret Pyhäjärvi: Mob Testing: An Introduction & Experience Report Maaike's mob programming slide deck for her team Neil's mob programming slide deck Woody Zuill: Mob Programming Hanselminutes podcast: Mob Programming with Woody Zuill Rich Rogers: Q&A with Neil Studd Wikipedia: Thinking, Fast and Slow Maaike's blog series: Mapping Biases to Testing David McRaney: You Are Not So Smart (website) You Are Not So Smart podcast Wikipedia: Confirmation bias Wikipedia: Cognitive dissonance Wikipedia: Loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy Wikipedia: Hindsight bias Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing (DEWT) Agile Testing Days 2018: Maaike Brinkhof & Göran Kero: Mind Busters - Test Your Mind 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