TestGuild Automation Podcast

Do you want to build more resilient software systems? Do you like to break things on purpose? If so, this episode is for you. We'll be Test Talking about Chaos Engineering with Tammy Butow, a principal site reliability engineer at Gremlin. Tammy will explain how to test the ways in which your system responds to stress so you can identify and fix failures before they impact your customers—saving yo...

Unfortunately, not many software engineering organizations are familiar with the needs of performance testing or even have the expertise to do so. One major roadblock that prevents teams from successfully executing performance testing is a lack of training. Sometimes, just knowing where to start can be a challenge. One place to start is PerfGuild so in this episode, we'll be talking all about the...

In today's episode , we'll be Test Talking with Israel Rogoza and Avishai Moshka from IncrediBuild about how you can fast-forward your entire development cycle. Discover how to reduce your builds, tests and other tasks leveraging grid computing. So if you're looking for ways to accelerate your software development efforts without reducing the quality, listen up.

In this episode , we'll be Test Talking with Larry Goddard about how to create a "Klassi" automation framework. Larry will discuss some JavaScript-related test tools that have helped him create tests for UI, APIs and visual validations, as well as generate reports and run tests in CI. So listen up and discover how to improve your JavaScript-based automated testing efforts.

There are many things that can disturb the perfect flow of front-end development and testing. However, for some reason, most people are led to believe that, whatever the answer is, it might involve new technology. But what if that was not true? What if what we actually need is a new approach, or better yet, a new methodology to guide us? In this episode , Fabio Nolasco gives a glimpse in his book...

Today we'll be test talking with Anton Angelov, the CTO and co-founder of Automate The Planet Ltd, inventor of both the BELLATRIX Test Automation Framework and MEISSA Distributed Test Runner. In this episode prepare to discover more about automation frameworks and how to run your tests in parallel.

Today we'll be test talking with Alex Schladebeck about her views on Software Testing. Discover what linguistics has to do with testing, how to stop hating your UI tests and much more. If you're interested in software testing, you don't want to miss this episode.

Today we'll be test talking with Kwo Ding all about his new Sonar WebDriver Plugin which is a static code analysis tool that helps you to follow best practices for writing WebDriver tests. If you're interested in writing clean Selenium code, you don't want to miss this episode .

Karate is a popular open-source project for web-service API testing. Inspired by Cucumber – it combines BDD syntax with a DSL carefully crafted to deal with HTTP. In this episode , Peter will walk through some of the features of Karate, and how it can be effectively used for testing web-service APIs. You get to hear straight from the creator of Karate the motivations for creating this framework in...

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 2019 Automation Guild Online Conference and Community. Listen in and find out how you and your team can accelerate your test automation efforts in 2019. Register for Automation Guild now: https://automati...

Have you ever watched SpongeBob SquarePants? If so, this episode is for you as we Test Talk with Michelle Macdonald about the SpongeBob-themed talk she gave at last year's SeleniumConf titled "Sleeping is not your best friend in automation." Discover why "sleeping" is not optimal, and learn better ways of using waits in Selenium. Are you ready? If so, listen up!

Are you hungry to learn more about an open-source framework? In this episode Adrian Theodorescua, a developer-turned-tester with over 17 years of experience shares his experiences with helping to create OpenTest . OpenTest is a free, open-source functional test automation tool for Web applications, mobile apps, and APIs. Based on Andre's description, it might be the perfect solution for your team.

Are you wondering what new automation and testing skills and tools you'll need to know in 2019? Before my Automation Guild conference each year I ask potential attendees to fill out a survey to give me an idea of what things they're struggling with. I also speak with a lot of testing thought leaders on my weekly Test Talks podcast. Based on this info we'll take a look at trends for automation test...

As organizations shift to a culture of intense collaboration and rapid delivery, the expectations for testers are changing. What does testing look like in an environment with automated build and deployment pipelines? How does appetite for risk change once a product can be tested in production? Who should testers look to connect with across the organization, and how can they work together effective...

There are many benefits of BDD, but most folks completely ignore them and just focus in on the automation piece of behavior-driven development. Living documentation, as well as communication, are often overlooked. In this episode  that's what we'll be test talking about today with Laurent Py, founder of HipTest. Listen up and discover how to take your BDD to the next level in 2019.

Today we'll be Test Talking with Casey Cantwell a Senior QA Architect about WebDriver.io Automation. This episode came about after I received an email from Casey who asked "In reading your blog post on "frameworks you need to know article" I was surprised to see a framework based on Node.js didn't get any love in your article. We chose Webdriver. IO as our product is all Node.js / JavaScript and a...

If you're like me you would have thought that Selenium IDE was long dead and buried. And to be honest, I was glad to believe it was. But in this episode , Dave Haeffner will Test Talk about the rebirth of Selenium IDE and why it's a good thing. Discover why Selenium IDE was resurrected and how it can help you. Listen up and learn about all of Selenium IDE's improvements, and how they have made it...

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to find the Rosetta stone—the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics? In this episode , we'll be Test Talking with Seretta Gamba about her new book, A Journey through Test Automation Patterns: One team's adventures with the Test Automation Patterns Wiki that she co-authored with Dorothy Graham. This book is like a testing Rosetta stone for anyo...

What is Continuous Testing? What does it mean to you and your team's testing efforts? That's what we'll be test talking about today in this episode with Ingo Philipp, a Distinguished Evangelist at Tricentis. Prepare to discover what the fundamentals of testing are, and why it's all about information and not automation.

In this episode discover how to fuel up your performance testing efforts as we test talk with Andy Hawkes. Andy is the creator of a new performance test tools called Loadster. So listen up and discover how using Loadster can help you lower the barrier or entry for newbie performance test engineers and help find performance risk in your application before your customer does.

In this episode , we'll be Test Talking with Zabil Maliackal, Gauge Product Manager at ThoughtWorks, about acceptance testing. If you're looking for an open-source automation framework that requires less code and less maintenance, and want to focus more of your efforts on the acceptance piece of testing, you don't want to miss this episode.

As you know, the number of tools that leverage machine-learning algorithms to help with UI based software automation testing keeps increasing. But what about leveraging AI for helping in other areas, like test data management? That's what we'll be test talking about today with Bhavani R. In this episode Bhavani will share her insight on to how her team uses an open-source tool called WEKA to help...

In this episode we'll be test talking with Eran Sher, CEO and co-founder of SeaLights.io, about software quality analytics and why analytics are so important in today's fast-paced software developing and testing world. Discover actionable tips on how to track and optimize your testing efforts to increase your team's velocity without sacrificing quality.

Did you enjoy smashing sand castles when you were a kid? If so, it might explain why you're about to listen to this podcast. In this episode we'll test talk with computer scientist Noemi Ferrera about AR/VR/AI machine learning and game testing using the AirTest Project. Get ready to discover a bunch of actionable testing tips for newer technologies.  

In today's episode get ready to discover ReportPortal.io, an open-source, AI-powered Test Automation dashboard. We'll be test talking with Dzmitry Humianiuk, Product Manager at EPAM. Dzmitry will explain how ReportPortal.io can help you with acquiring, aggregating and analyzing test results to quickly determine the health of your test runs using machine learning.