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Following up his lightning talk ("Automation is Just a Tool") at the recent Let's Test conference, Richard Bradshaw joins us to dig a little deeper into the subject of test automation, exploratory testing, automation frameworks, artificial intelligence, DevOps and Skynet. This is a great conversation for manual testers struggling with the challenges to automate their tests, developers adopting automation and managers trying to keep it all working smoothly.

Michael "TestHead" Larsen joined us for a long, long conversation about how you can become a great software tester and how his own career developed through ups and downs, turns and twists (no pun intended) to arrive at his current level of genuine guru. Michael is generous enough to share his pointers and advice about tester self-awareness and several modern-day resources to help you in your software testing career.

Directly from his home on the West Coast of the USA James Bach, the original self-proclaimed Buchaneer-Scholar himself joins us for "test" of his thinking about the recent STPCON keynote on the schools of software testing and how he might juxtapose his own opinion on ISTQB with a contemporary understanding of systems thinking. We chat about great books and movies to help learn about systems thinking, we talk about chickens who created gravity and how to add some windows and doors to the "silos" in your organization. Be sure to check more about James' teachings around the world on his website www.satisfice.com.

Join Rich as he interviews Rachel Obstler the Senior Director Product Management at Keynote. Rachel discusses the advantages of mobile testing by helping organizations through access to fully-equipped device labs to conduct interactive manual testing of any mobile app or website. She discusses some of the best ways to test the functionality, usability and performance of native or web-based mobile apps. The testing of mobile applications is complex due to the many combinations of devices, networks, and platforms. Rachel discusses the way Keynote helps organizations to become more effective at testing their mobile apps.

STPCon speaker Wayne Ariola, Chief Strategy Officer at Parasoft, discusses his new book "Continuous Testing." Wayne outlines the importance of bringing together business executives and the quality teams to maintain the important edge quality software has become for so many organizations. He talks about the importance of setting expectations with the business and reducing the risk of releasing software that fails. Listen now to find out how you can receive your free copy! Limited time only.

Mark Tomlinson host of PerfBytes, Performance Tester, Speaker, and all around Testing guru talks about the similarities of music and testing. Testing and music have many common attributes and it is fun to listen to Mark make the comparison! Mark talks about conferences in general but he gets specific about his upcoming role at STPCon in New Orleans. Mark talks about the mentoring program at the conference he and Mike Lyles are conducting on Thursday. If you are looking for the inside scoop on speaking at STP in the future, check it out now!

Mike Lyles, Senior QA Manager, Lowe’s Company Inc. talks about his upcoming Keynote “What the 80’s Taught Me About Testing”, his session on Metrics, and Service Virtualization along with a number of interesting topics. Mike shares his thoughts on the Industry debates and other random Testing thoughts. Mike talks about how speaking has changed his life, and how he hopes to give back in the session he and Mark Tomlinson are conducting Thursday of STPCon in New Orleans. Definitely take a listen!

Broadcasting live from the Expo hall at STPCON Spring 2014 in New Orleans, LA USA!! In this show, Mark Tomlinson and Rich Hand engage the sponsors in live rounds of question-and-answer so that we may learn more about the great organizations that support the STPCON conference. Learn more from HP Software, SOASTA, XBOSOFT, Orasi and SMARTBEAR. We get a quick chat with Rex Black about his opening keynote debate with Dr. Cem Kaner.

On behalf of the Software Test Professionals community, welcome to STP Radio! In this introductory episode of Software Test Professionals STP Radio podcast. Rich Hand and Mark Tomlinson disucss the recent years of audio podcasting at STP with shows such as TWiST (This Week in Software Testing) and PerfBytes. We chat about the future for podcasting at STP with an open invitation to new podcasters and shows sourced from the community on the subjects regarding software testing.