Hello friends - in this episode we have an in-depth conversation with Cathy Huang from long-time sponsor and supporter of STP, Applause ( www.applause.com ). Specifically we learn from Cathy's customer feedback and experiences around automation strategy, artificial intelligence and some possible new capabilities coming to the Applause solutions. Thank you for listening and please consider giving us a rating and review online wherever you listening to this podcast....
Apr 09, 2020•44 min
We welcome back to the show the co-founder and CEO of PinkLion.AI Jennifer Bonine to discuss her upcoming trifecta of a workshop, a session, and a keynote at STPCon in San Diego, California - March 30 - April 2. But please, don't be surprised if you hear Jennifer talk about her world-wide participation in global development projects, socially responsible initiatives, and the future of what we do as testers and quality analysts in the 4th industrial revolution. Learn more about Jennifer's partici...
Mar 06, 2020•51 min
Paul Merrill is CEO and Principal Software Engineer in Test of Beaufort Fairmont Test Automation Services. He is also an incredibly ingenious tester, developer and teacher on the subjects of quality and test automation. We had a far-reaching conversation on topics from testing, DevOps, woodworking, and shoes. Learn more about Paul's upcoming keynote, session, and workshop at https://www.stpcon.com/speaker/paul-merrill/ .
Mar 03, 2020•48 min
STP Radio welcomes Nancy Kelln back to the show, where we chat about her upcoming workshop and session at the Spring 2020 Software Test Professionals Conference in San Diego at the end of March. Nancy is a fantastic teacher and speaker, and this year she's going to include robots in her workshop. Real, honest-to-goodness, robots. Don't miss it! Learn more at www.stpcon.com .
Feb 21, 2020•31 min
Leandro Melendez (a.k.a. Señor Performo) joins us for a pretty in-depth conversation about his upcoming performance workshop in which he helps people to learn one of the hardest and most complex part so performance test scripting: transport level data correlation. Wow! Leandro has been a lead consultant for Qualitest ( www.qualitestgroup.com ) for more than 10 years and travels the world-over assisting their customers with performance testing and engineering initiatives. Register for STPCON here...
Feb 13, 2020•39 min
In this episode of STPRadio I catch up with agile testing guru Melissa Tondi at the recent STPCON Conference held in Boston, MA. Melissa shares some insights about her fantastic workshop on agile testing management and strategy, her session on modern testing and even the future of her session proposals for STPCON Spring 2020 in San Diego. New England clam chowder for the win! Visit softwaretestpro.com to learn more!
Oct 31, 2019•27 min
At the recent STPCON in Boston, MA I had a chance to catch up with Kirk Walton of tapQA - a fantastic bunch of test consulting gurus from my home state of Minnesota here in the Mid-west of the USA. We chatted about hot trends in customer demands of testing, the future of our practices and approaches and we both agreed that broomball is not actually a sport. Learn more about tapQA at their website: https://www.tapqa.com/
Oct 10, 2019•36 min
It's happened again, on this time Señor Performo Leandro Melendez joins us as we celebrate 10 years of STPCON here in Boston. In this episode, as usual, we have audience participation sharing testimonials from the conference, a heart-warming New of The Damned story, celebration of Dot Graham's lifetime achievement and planes flying overhead! Learn more at www.stpcon.com !
Sep 26, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Hola Software Test Professionals! This is an interview with attendee Diego Molina from Sauce Labs with our guest host Leandro Melendez. They had a great conversation about general test automation, new innovations from Sauce Labs and the STPCON conference here in Boston. The entire interview is in Español (Spanish) so for the English speaking audience, you might skip this one! Estamos en la #STPCon y nos topamos a nuestro amigo Diego Molina! Aprovechamos para platicar con el literalmente secuestr...
Sep 25, 2019•59 min
Returning to STPCON this Fall 2019 is Robin Goldsmith, the president of the SQGNE - one of the longest running communities in New England. Robin is going to share the teachings from his forthcoming book "Write Right Agile User Story and Acceptance Test Requirements Right" - we had a delightful conversation packed with information for anyone visiting the Boston area for the first time. Learn more about Robin's session here: https://www.stpcon.com/speakers/robin-goldsmith/...
Sep 19, 2019•46 min
In this episode, long-time Software Test Pro contributor and supporter Dawn Haynes joins me to share some insights....and when I mean insights, I'm serious. The connections she makes for the personal and professional experiences of software testers is as unique as it is profound. She's teaching a workshop around testing stakeholders and a session on being more agile in your work as a tester. Learn more about her attendance here: https://www.stpcon.com/speakers/dawn-haynes/...
Sep 18, 2019•36 min
What planet are you from? Did you say Jupiter? Well, let hang on there downward dog, you've gotta tune into what Brendan Connolly is teaching at STPCON this Fall. If you've never heard of Jupyter Notebooks - you're probably not alone. If you've never seen how to apply them to mob testing and automation, then Brendan can help you transport your skills to a whole new planet. Learn more about his workshop and session here: https://www.stpcon.com/speakers/brendan-connolly/...
Sep 17, 2019•21 min
Joyce Lin is a Developer Advocate with Postman - one of the most popular API testing and development tools used across thousands of test practitioners across the industry. In this episode she shares a bit about the introduction workshop and potentially some of the advanced tips-n-tricks she's been teaching a developer conferences in the past few years. Learn more about her session at the website: https://www.stpcon.com/sessions/workshop-test-automation-with-postman/...
Sep 16, 2019•25 min
Paul Merrill is Principal Software Engineer in Test and founder of Beaufort Fairmont Automated Testing Services. Frequent writer and international speaker, Paul works with clients every day to accelerate testing, mitigate risks, and increase the value of testing processes with test automation. Paul has a unique perspective on launching and maintaining quality products. Learn more about test automation at https://beaufortfairmont.com/webinars . Register for the STPCON conference at https://www.st...
Sep 12, 2019•39 min
In this episode, we catch up with Jennifer Bonine, the CEO, and co-founder of PinkLion.AI a new company in the artificial intelligence tech space working on integrations and wholistic solutions to help the customer overcome hidden challenges to building effective ML/AI solutions. In addition to her session on Test Data and AI - she's also teaching a workshop on Agile Leadership that you won't want to miss. Find out more at https://www.stpcon.com !
Sep 05, 2019•30 min
On this episode we take a dive into the AI automation pool with Kevin Surace the CEO & CTO of Appvance.ai - the inventor of AI-driven testing, which is revolutionizing the software QA process. Kevin shares his vast experience in tech innovation and insights into the current challenges for testers in fast-paced, modern software development contexts. We chat about drywall, open source tooling, the Empire State building windows and HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Register at https://www.stpcon.c...
Aug 29, 2019•49 min
Welcome a community favorite back to the podcast to chat with us about her intriguing keynote at the upcoming STPCON conference which is entitled: “A Tale of Testing the Un-Testable." Angie Jones is an accomplished inventor, programmer, thought-leading automation guru and all-around one of the most passionate techies we know. Visit https://www.stpcon.com to register today!
Aug 22, 2019•31 min
Please welcome STPCON newcomer Sue Jagodzinski to our show today where in our first conversation, she packs a whole bunch of great ideas about her recent year's agile change experience into a seemingly short amount of time. Sue has been with Paychex for 27 years in several different roles at the organization: tester, developer, project lead, development manager, and test manager. In her latest role, Sue is the development manager for the test automation tool that is utilized across the entire de...
Mar 28, 2019•27 min
Our time-traveling friend Raj Subramanian is back on STPRADIO to share some insights on paired testing and acceptance test driven development (ATDD). After years in many different organizations, Raj currently works as a Developer Evangelist for Testim.io, that provides stable self-healing AI based test automation some of the top tech companies in the world. He actively contributes to the testing community by speaking at conferences, writing articles, blogging, making videos on his youtube channe...
Mar 26, 2019•27 min
In this episode we hear from the one-and-only Brendan Connolly who is a Software Tester, Developer and blogger based out of Santa Barbara, California with nearly a decade of testing experience in a variety of different roles. He writes tests at all levels from unit and integration tests to API and UI tests and is responsible for creating and executing testing strategies while using his coding powers for developing tooling to help make testers lives easier. His session "Panoramic Quality – The Fe...
Mar 19, 2019•27 min
You've probably heard of this guy named Michael Bolton who has flown over a million miles to teach Rapid Software Testing in 35 different countries, who has tweeted more than 62,000 times almost always on software testing subjects and who enjoy's rare whiskies, asian food and playing bluegrass music. For the last 18 years of his nearly three decades in software testing, he has been the leader of DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development consultancy. We had a greatly voluminous conver...
Mar 14, 2019•43 min
Jason Arbon is the CEO of Test.AI - his company which is the product of his passion for AI-Powered Test Automation. Jason will be joining us at www.stpcon.com to give a workshop, a session and a keynote talk on machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to the software testing disciplines. In our talk he shared a very memorable quote: “Machine learning is fundamentally an automated way to teach a machine to recreate human judgements and behaviors. If you look at it the testing problem ...
Mar 12, 2019•28 min
Mary and I met almost 10 years ago on project to optimize email marketing campaign automation. So I will now formally apologize for the volume and speed of spam in your inbox. Regardless, Mary is an absolute agile testing guru, author, teacher, leader, manager and mentor. Mary has held VP, director, and manager level positions in various software development organizations. Her expertise is a combination of agile scaling, agile testing, and DevOps that her clients find incredibly valuable. We spe...
Mar 07, 2019•41 min
In this episode of This Week in Software Testing (TWiST) we hear from Michael Larsen and his plans for both a workshop on automation frameworks and inclusive design for the upcoming www.stpcon.com conference. If you don't know Michael (@mkltesthead) already, he has been a software tester or worked in software testing capacities for over 25 years. He is a prolific writer, live blogger and podcast producer for “The Testing Show”, a podcast sponsored by QualiTest. He is active as a founder/facilita...
Mar 05, 2019•51 min
After just 30 minutes of interview with Nancy Kelln, you might start asking: "what the hell kind of podcast is that!?" No, not really. Nancy is a passionate Test Manager with 16+ years of diverse IT experience working with teams that are enhancing their exploratory and context-driven testing practices. She has coached test teams in various environments and facilitated numerous sessions, international workshops and presentations. She's an active member of the Calgary Software Quality Discussion G...
Feb 28, 2019•31 min
Stacking the Automation Deck is yet another great talk from Paul Grizzaffi, who is a Principal Automation Architect at Magenic ( www.magenic.com ). Paul and I have a brief chat about the layers of automation framework design and a few architectural patterns that he will describe in detail at his talk. Paul is also an accomplished keynote speaker and writer, having spoken at both local and national conferences and meetings. He is an adviser to Software Test Professionals and STPCon ( www.stpcon.c...
Feb 26, 2019•19 min
Dead, testing is not. In this episode I get to chat with Rex Black who has been thriving in the industry for 35 years of software and systems engineering experience. Rex is the President of RBCS ( www.rbcs-us.com ), a testing leader, providing consulting, training, and expert services. He has worked with clients from small start-ups to Fortune 20 global enterprises. He has experience helping clients apply testing best practices in a wide variety of development lifecycles, including Kanban, Scrum...
Feb 21, 2019•37 min
What a great conversation with Melissa Tondi who is the founder of Denver Mobile and Quality (DMAQ), a board member of Software Quality Association of Denver (SQuAD) and the lead of the Professional Services at Rainforest QA ( www.rainforestqa.com ). We chat about how NOT to test and Testing in DevOps and getting out on the water in San Francisco.
Feb 19, 2019•36 min
Joel has been in testing for 20+ years as tester, a manager, a consultant and now a speaker. He has worked for companies in Israel and the USA and he is now the Chief Solution Architect at PractiTest ( www.practitest.com ). Joel supports various industry projects such as the OnlineTestConf ( http://www.onlinetestconf.com/) , the State of Testing Report and a few secret projects he can't tell you about.
Feb 14, 2019•24 min
Angie Jones is a Senior Developer Advocate who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world, as well as writing tutorials and blogs on angiejones.tech.
Feb 07, 2019•25 min
