TestGuild Automation Podcast

"Want to know an excellent way to generate selenium python tests automatically? In this episode, Michael Mintz, the creator of SeleniumBase, shares a new feature that does just that — Recorder Mode. Discover how it lets you record & export browser actions into test automation scripts. Also, find out when and, more importantly, when not to use it. Listen up!"

Don't let your testing efforts fall behind — it's time to prepare for the New Year. In this episode, I'll share my insights about upcoming test automation trends gleaned from my popular Test Guild podcasts interviews, as well as my yearly Automation Guild survey. Discover the skills, best practices, and frameworks you need to know to stay employable in the ever-changing dev/test world in 2022. Don...

It's no secret that suboptimal web and mobile user experiences can negatively impact the bottom line. The problem is that many organizations' UX, accessibility, security, and performance testing occur separately from functional testing. Often, this type of testing is done until after the code is complete. Rick Broker, a Solutions Architect at Digital.ai, shares why this needs to change in this epi...

As a tester, one crucial skill that will make you and your team successful is influence. But how do you influence your whole team to be excited about quality? In this episode, Parveen Khan, a senior quality analyst consultant at Thoughtworks, will share some ways to become a quality influencer. Discover how to impact a new team, Agile and DevOps tips, the What, not How, of testing, and much more....

How does automation work on your team with developers and testers? In this episode, Ramiro Millan, a Director of Product Development for Test Studio, shares how collaboration works from his experience leveraging tools to help the process. Discover some of the gray areas of development that could leverage automation, tooling to help C#/.Net developers, and the planning, design, and development of a...

Everyone's test automation journey is different. In this episode, Nalin Parbu, founder of Infuse and useMango, and James Johnson, Head of Development, will share their journey to making codeless test automation a reality. Discover how a test tool vendor tests their tool(s), the automation jobs skills that are currently in demand, RPA, AI/ML, predictions for the future of automation, and how useMan...

As you know, accessibility is important and often requires manual checks. But did you also know that you can leverage Cypress to help automate some of your accessibility tests? In this episode, Pragati Sharma, a Senior Business Consultant at ThoughtWorks, will share how she automates accessibility tests using Cypress and Axe. Learn the basics of accessibility, how to set up Cypress and add accessi...

Want to know how to scale your automation tests using AWS Lambda? In this episode, Patrick Döring, a chief architect for test automation, shares an open-source automaton framework he created called 7Facette. Discover how to scale automation testing using Playwright, AWS lambda, an unlimited number of machines for parallel testing, and much more. Listen up!

How do you build a software quality process from the ground up? In this episode , Evan Niedojadlo, an engineer at Peddle, shares his real-world experience of how he did it. Discover how to get leadership and team buy-in, where to begin with testing, know what to automate, what metrics he used, what he would do differently today, and much more. Listen up! Never miss another episode! Join the Guild...

Are you considering adding visual validation testing to your automation, but not sure where to start? In this episode, Surat will share an open-source solution called Visual Regression Tracker to achieve awesome results. He'll also share his use of it with his Fitness framework, which is an often-overlooked automation option. Discover what Fitness is, how Surat uses it, and learn about visual regr...

Are you considering using Playwright for your next automation project? In this episode , Sonja Leaf, Director of Engineering at Cloudburst, will share why her team chose Playwright and how it has worked for them so far. Discover why they moved on from Cucumberjs, some newer features of Playwright, visual test automation, and much more. Listen up! Never miss another episode! Join the Guild and get...

Paul is back to share some automation testing tricks and treats in our annual Halloween special. In this episode , Paul Grossman (AKA the DarkArtsWizards) conjures up some automation testing practices that will help ward off flaky automation like garlic to a vampire. Discover automation horror stories, whether codeless automation is the boogeyman, how to avoid zombie bad testing practices, and muc...

If you don't fix your security vulnerabilities, attackers will exploit them. As testers, we have a responsibility to help to secure our applications. In this episode, Ted Harrington, author of Hackable: How to Do Application Security Right, shares how to defend against attackers by learning to think like them. Discover how to eradicate security vulnerabilities, establish a threat model, and build...

Software development is moving faster than ever in a continuous delivery model, and traditional test automation is sometimes not enough to keep up. In this episode, technology leader Dushyant Acharya, will share how the engineering productivity paradigm helps expand test automation and make it more effective. Discover how to increase software development productivity with development workflow, inc...

The success of DevOps is intrinsically linked to test automation. But how do you quickly scale your automation effort to keep up with the speed of delivery?  In this episode , Ethan Chung, a Solutions Architect at  Keysight Technologies, will share a comprehensive DevOps strategy that he has seen work for other companies.  Discover the power of automation intelligence, team collaboration hacks, ha...

Want to know how to choose an automation tool? In this episode , Paul Grizzaffi will share how ignoring your company's automation ecosystem get you into trouble. Discover all aspects of the automation ecosystem (goals/strategy, audience, environment) in depth. Listen up to find out how to win at the game of automation.

Need to automate Salesforce applications? In this episode , Mala Punyani, an Engineering Manager Quality/Automation Architect at Splunk, will share some insights from her 14 years of automation experience. Discover differences in automating Salesforce applications, when to build vs. buy, test strategy, and much more. Listen up!   

It's game on in this episode , as Ru Cindrea, a senior test consultant and managing partner at Altom, shares success with game automation testing. Discover all about an open-source automation tool AltUnity Tester designed for Unity mobile automation for games. Listen up!  ** Selenium 4 *** Did you know that Selenium 4 has been officially released? Get a free video tutorial on all the new features...

Observability has been a topic I've heard more and more about the past few years. But what is it really, and how does it apply to testing? In this episode, Abby Bangser, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Duffel, breaks it down for you. Discover what observability & telemetry is, how to use observability in debugging, how observability is different from monitoring, and much more. Listen up! ** N...

Did you know that, on average, an application touches more than 50 external dependencies? How do you test in this scenario? In this episode , Sergei Egorov will explain how to handle tricky integration testing scenarios. Learn about TestContainers, a cool way to create throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container. This will hel...

Are your APIs secure? How do you know? Is security even part of your testing plan? In this episode , Mateusz Olejarka, a Senior IT Security Consultant at SecuRing, will share how to approach testing REST API from a Pentester's Perspective. Discover common API interface exploits and how to prevent them in your applications. Listen up!

So, you're getting ready to speak at a conference, and your flight is in the morning. Fever kicks in. It turns out you have Covid. What do you do? In this episode, Greg Paskal will share his story and lessons learned from his experience with Covid, and how it related to software testing. Discover why having a test plan is so important, the effect of isolation on team culture, the importance of qua...

Do you need to run some automated tests against desktop applications? As a testing community, we have been spoiled with many open-source automation testing tools for browser and API automation testing, but what about tools for desktop application automation? In this episode , I share some of the top options to help you with different desktop test automation technologies. Discover what open-source...

There are so many traps one can fall into when creating automated tests. In this episode , Ramona Schwering, a software developer with a passion for testing, shares her tips to help you avoid some of the most common testing traps. Discover strategies to prevent slow tests, painful-to-maintain-and-debug tests, and tests that have no value. Stop wasting valuable time debugging and maintaining flaky...

Want to know the best way to increase the visibility of your test automation? In this episode, Nikita Sidorevich shares why automated test reporting is critical to the success of your project. Discover how to analyze and debug your failing tests quicker, and detect flaky tests earlier. Also, hear how to get your whole team involved using flexible, team-specific automation test results dashboarding...