TestGuild Automation Podcast

When it comes to performance testing, sometimes the best thing you can do is Just Do It. With open-source performance testing options, it’s never been easier to get started. And the best place to start is in CI. In this episode , Michael Sage from BlazeMeter shares which tools and techniques you should use to get started with your Continuous Performance testing efforts. You’ll discover how to get...

I’ve been involved with test automation for over 15 years, and I’m amazed that to this day there are misconceptions about test automation that most managers are not even aware of. In this episode you will discover my top 5 things your boss probably doesn’t understand about test automation , and why you need to educate him or her ASAP.

How can we deliver what we’ve made to our customers as early as possible, as well as get faster feedback from our product users? To achieve this, more and more companies are moving toward a continuous delivery process. How does automation fit into this paradigm shift? In this episode Sahas, shares tons of real world experience with us about how to make our CI/ automation testing efforts awesome.

We are currently living in what some are calling the API economy. With mobile app development, modern DevOps practices and newer architecture like micro-servers, API’s are everywhere. They might even be in your shower. So it’s important that we have a process in place to help us monitor and test all our APIs. In this episode, Neil Mansilla, head of developer relations at Runscope, shares with us h...

Today we’ll be test talking with Brian Okken, author of Python Testing with UnitTest, Nose & Pytest , and host of the new Python Test Podcast . Get ready to discover some cool Python testing techniques, including how to use Python for embedded testing and more.

Want to take your mobile app development and testing CI efforts to the next level? Does it take you a long time to deploy your apps? Ship.io can help.  Ship.io  was developed specifically for Continuous Delivery or native iOS and Android mobile apps to help you easily build, test, deploy and ship quality apps faster. Tim Rosenblatt , an engineer at Ship.io, shares with us how to improve our mobile...

Not sure if you should test your mobile app against a simulator, emulator or real device? Testing against a real device would be optimal, but do you really have the budget or time to set up your own mobile testing lab? No worries  SauceLabs  just got even better with their  announcement  of a new feature that allows customers to test their mobile apps across the full spectrum of simulators, emulat...

Is QA dead? You might be surprised by the answer. Today we test talk with Jess Sussna, author of  Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy , who shares with us his view of Cybernetics and 21st century IT, and what happens to QA in a DevOps world. The book covers how service quality is about more than designing capabilities, but is about making -- and keeping --promises to c...

In my experience, one of the most significant improvements to my team’s automation code has been due to the inclusion of all our test artifacts in our code reviews. Also -- if you’re a developer doing code reviews, you should be involving your QA resources to help gain fresh perspective for things that you may not have thought of. Everyone on your development team benefits from code reviews, becau...

With more and more companies making the shift-left in their development process there is increase pressure on development teams to be able to run their automated test quickly and reliably. Peter Kim shares with us his modern automation approach that allows his team to quickly scale their test coverage against rapidly changing applications with minimal refactoring and code changes to their test scr...

In this episode you’ll discover how to orchestrate your testing/Agile efforts to run in automation harmony with QASymphony’s qTest platform as we Test Talk  with Kyle Cochran, VP of Product at QASymphony. Test Management is a key tool in any Agile automation effort in order to succeed in today’s fast-paced development environment. Kyle shares why he believes test management can help teams collabor...

Ross, the author of the Pluralsight course  Introduction to Wireshark  shows us how Wireshark can help bridge the gap between network engineers, developers and testers to ensure we are developing high-performing, secure software application awesomeness. In this episode you’ll discover how to use WireShark to attack hard to find bugs!

This episode is all about how HP's new test tool LeanFT can help you and your company with your Shift-left efforts. LeanFT was developed to handle the modern automation demands of things like continuous testing and dev-ops. You'll discover the top features of LeanFT and how to accelerate your LeanFT scripting efforts

In this episode you’re going to find out how to test your software better, easier and faster with Gojko Adzic, author of   Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your Test . Gojko reveals some of his favorite ideas from his book, all of which can be applied to many different contexts -- from small web start-ups to the world’s largest companies. This episode will improve your team members’ collaboration on d...

How many of you have been on projects where you ended up building the wrong thing? Or worked for a company that tried a process that was currently in vogue, only to see it fail? And of course, we’ve all felt the frustration of finding all types of bugs in our software that cause us to delay releasing it. How can we reduce these common risks associated with developing software? Matt Heusser, founde...

Do you work for a large enterprise company and are struggling to create an automation strategy that will meet all the needs of your company? Want to know what the number one factor people forget when getting started with test automation? In this episode we're going to pick the brain of Kalayana Rao Konda, President of Gallop -- one of the largest companies that specialize in providing testing serv...

Today, mobile apps must meet rigorous standards of reliability, usability, security, and performance. However, many mobile developers have limited testing experience, and mobile platforms raise new challenges even for long-time testers. In this episode the Author of  Hands-On Mobile App Testing – Daniel Knott  shares his end-to-end blueprint for thoroughly testing any iOS or Android mobile app.  h...

One of the biggest challenges I’ve seen for large teams all across the globe is a lack of collaboration. In this episode you’ll discover how to break down some of the barriers that separate your project management group, development group, business, and especially your QA group, and ensure that those teams are working as a unit with Sanjay Zalavadia, VP of Client Services at Zephyr.

How often have you found yourself doing a long, manual, repetitive administrator task on a Windows box and thinking that there has to be a better way? Well, you’re right -- and PowerShell may be exactly what you’re looking for. Don’t be a “click next” admin! Listen to Adam Bertram, author of the Pluralsight  PowerShell Toolmaking Fundamentals  course, as he shares a bunch of tips on using PowerShe...

Discover new and existing functionality to make your Sauce Labs automation tests even  more  awesome. Steve Hazel, CTO and co-founder of Sauce Labs, shares his deep development knowledge of how to make your tests run reliably in Sauce. Steve also reveals some cool new UI features recently added to Sauce Labs to make your Sauce automation experience even better.

In this episode, discover my top takeaways from this year’s HP Discover conference, and get a sneak peek of the new HP automation tool that is going to blow your mind.

In this episode, Al Sweigart shares how easy it is for someone with little-to-no programming experience can get started automating some of the most boring tasks that fill our days.   Whats great about this is you’ll find automation can be used for much more than your typical end-to-end functional testing scenarios. So if you’ve struggled in the past to learn a programming language for test automat...

There is nothing worse than sour BDD. You know -- the kind that is unreliable, unreadable and unmaintainable yet still need to be maintained somehow. Discover a better way with Seb Rose, the author of  The Cucumber for Java Book , as he shares some of the best ways to create robust, sweet BDD (Behavior Driven Development) that will leave you satisfied and your customers delighted.

As the dawn of the Internet Of Things Era begins testers and developers need a better way to test the functionality of their growing API, cloud based software applications. One of the new tools/techniques developed for this purpose is the concept of Service Virtualization. Find out why Service Virtualization is so important and why you need it to have confidence that your modern application will w...

My  mother passed away  in December after fighting a progressively debilitating disease for many years. The past months have been a time of reflection for me. My mother taught me many things about life, instilling principles that have made me not only a better person but also a better test automation engineer. In this episode, I’d like to share a few of those things with you.