TestGuild Automation Podcast

Are you or your team struggling with automation testing? Do you have a hard time getting automation buy-in from your teams? In this episode, you'll get a sneak peek of what you'll discover at the 2018 Automation Guild Online Conference and Community. Listen in and find out how you and your team can accelerate your test automation efforts in 2018. Register for Automation Guild now : https://automat...

Are you looking to expand your tester's toolbox with automation but don't know where to start? Are you unsure what the benefits of automation are, or whether it's even worth it? In this episode , Corina Pip will share tips, tools, and libraries you can use to help you get up running with automation. Sound boring? No way! Corina shows how much fun test automation can actually be.

Everywhere you look today, folks are talking about Artificial Intelligence. Will AI be the next big thing in automation testing? In http://www.testtalks.com/182 this episode we'll get a sneak peak into a brand new, AI-based test tool, Mabl, which was founded by a bunch of ex-Google employees. Today we'll be test talking with Mabl co-founder Dan Belcher as he shares his views on AI/machine learning...

We're still early in VR, and there's not a lot of competition. Just like in the early days of mobile, it's a goldmine ready for you to jump into. But figuring out how to get started with testing and developing VR is definitely the hardest part. In this episode , Jason Weimann, author of the Virtual Reality Developer course will discuss some of his experience in testing and developing VR games. Dis...

Whether you're just getting started with BDD using Cucumber--or have been using it for years--you're in for a treat. In this, episode we'll be test talking with the creator of Cucumber, Aslak Hellesøy, about his thoughts and reflections on ten years of Cucumber. Listen up and discover how and why Aslak created Cucumber, as well as ways to improve your BDD efforts. Prepare to break the chains of BD...

There are a lot of Selenium WebDriver-based testing frameworks out there. A relatively new one is Webdriver.io. In this episode , we'll be Test Talking about it with Kevin Lamping , author of the course Learn WebDriver.io . Kevin shares some of the pros and cons of using WebDriver.io as well as things to keep in mind when creating a WebDriver.io-based framework. So listen up and discover why WebDr...

When I look back at my career in test automation, there are three distinct periods, or "waves" that come to mind. In this episode , you'll discover eight newer "AI"-based tools that I think they will take us to the next stage of test automation–the Third Wave. Is AI/Machine learning test automation all hype? Listen and find out.

Are you or your developers struggling with test automation? Is Selenium not working for you? In this episode , we'll be test talking with the founder and VP of engineering at Cypress.io . Cypress.io is a developer-focused tool that helps other developers write tests for the web. It was designed to avoid some of the bad practices Brian has seen in the past when writing test automation and was devel...

In this episode, we'll be test talking with dark arts wizard Paul Grossman. Paul will share his six-step process for decomposing tests that can translate into an automation framework. So get ready to discover how to create a reusable, maintainable BPT automation framework and how to avoid some classic test automation mistakes.

In this episode, we'll be test talking with Rhian Lewis about Blockchain application testing. I assume that you've been hearing a lot about Blockchain and Bitcoin (I know I have), but how many of us have actually begun to roll up our sleeves and tried to determine what we need to do to get started testing these types of applications? Rhian is a trailblazer in this space and shares what you need to...

What if there was a way to make your tests more reliable with less manual maintenance involved on your part? Something like a record and playback solution with built-in machine learning that creates self-improving, stable test runs? Sound like science fiction? Well, listen up and discover the second wave of AI-powered test automation with the creator of TestIm.io Oren Rubin. Oren shares his 20 yea...

In this episode , Danny McKeown of Paychex test talks about how his small tools group supports nearly one hundred Agile teams in their automation efforts. Danny will share how his team is able to lead other teams to implement and succeed with their automation testing. You'll also discover how Paychex assesses progress with their maturity model.

Do you struggle to decide when to use a browser emulation (in case of hybrid apps), mobile simulators/emulators and real devices? In this episode , Kwo Ding will review his mobile test pyramid approach and discuss best practices about when to use what. Kwo will also reveal his tips for how to best structure and execute mobile test and more!

In this episode , we'll be Test Talking with Greg Sypolt about Automation, CI and DevOps. You'll discover how to transform your new or existing automated tests in order to speed up development and reduce maintenance impact. Greg will also share some ways in which his team is working towards achieving Continuous Integration (CI) and DevOps excellence through their test automation efforts.

In this episode , we Test Talks all about All Day DevOps . All Day DevOps is a FREE online community responsible for creating the world's largest DevOps conference. Our 2016 inaugural, 15-hour live online conference attracted 13,500 registered attendees. All Day DevOps 2017 will offer over 100, 30-minute sessions across six tracks in all time zones, simultaneously. Tracks include CI/CD, Modern Inf...

Automation testing is awesome. But sometimes using a little old fashioned critical thinking is the only thing way you can achieve a test that actually finds the bugs in your application. In this episode , JeanAnn Harrison will share how critical thinking has aided her in her testing efforts, and how she has applied it throughout her long and successful career. You're going to discover some great t...

Learn the what, why and how of testing with concurrency. In this episode , Mike shares his automation journey from in-house machine testing to cloud-based testing. You'll also discover some lessons Mike learned while working on the HealthCare.org project.

Today we'll be Test Talking with Cassandra Leung about her upcoming presentation at Agile Testing Days on 5 Ways Automation is Like Sex and Why your Careers Isn't Doomed Without it. Cassandra shares her experience with automation and addresses many of the false claims, and misunderstanding managers and testers may have about automation. So get ready to discover how to have more pleasurable testing...

Is your automation test suite taking hours to run? Are you having issues with debugging and analyzing automated test failures? In this episode , we'll Test Talk with Nikolay Advolodkin, the founder of UltimateQA about the pros and cons of a few test cloud providers as well and some other test automation awesomeness.

In this episode , I'll recap some of the top questions and answers I received during the PerfGuild Conference. PerfGuild was the first ever-online conference 100% dedicated to performance testing. So if you're involved with performance testing in any way, you'll definitely benefit from this episode.

I've recently have been getting lots of request from test talks listeners asking about newer advanced test automation capabilities. So that's what will be Test Talking about today with Amir Rozenberg. In this episode , you'll discover how some emerging technologies are going to affect your digital mobile testing efforts.

In this episode, we Test Talk with Lubos Parobek all about the brand new feature recently announce by Sauce Labs --Test Analytics. Test Analytics is the latest addition to the Sauce Labs Automated Testing Cloud. Whats awesome about the Test Analytics feature is that it will help you to reduces the time spent on analyzing test results by providing users trends on key metrics so that they can track...

Over the years, most testing efforts have been steadily shifting left to earlier in the development lifecycle. For web apps, testing and test automation have been gradually shifting into the development, design, and requirements phases of our software development lifecycles. But what about mobile development and testing? That's what we'll be Test Talking about today with Satyajit Malugu: How to Sh...

As software engineers, we need to stay up to date with our technical skills and more. If you're like me, you sometimes wish there was a manual on how to stay ahead. If you feel the same way as I do listen up because In this episode we Test Talk with John Sonmez author of the new book The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming In...

Are you or your team struggling with performance testing or are you afraid to release your application the wild because you simply don't know how it's going to perform under load? In this episode, you'll discover how PerfGuild can help you. PerfGuild is the first ever 100% online conference dedicated solely to performance testing. We're bringing together 15 plus of some of the best experts in the...