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.
Sep 03, 2017•36 min
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 experiences with or without automation....
Aug 27, 2017•33 min
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.
Aug 20, 2017•40 min
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.
Aug 13, 2017•32 min
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.
Aug 06, 2017•29 min
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 down failures faster! So listen up and discover how to speed up your test automation debugging effor...
Jul 30, 2017•24 min
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 Shift-Left Mobile Application Testing. Listen and learn about mobile testing, mocking tools, emulators...
Jul 23, 2017•32 min
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 Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job . My only issue is that I wish John named it the...
Jul 16, 2017•36 min
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 world when it comes to performance testing. Listen up to hear why performance testing is more import...
Jul 09, 2017•31 min
In this episode , Paul Grizzaffi explains responsible ways to approach automation, as well as some of the knowledge we need in order to be responsible. He also shares insights into automation responsibility from his own career, including how to use proper judgment with all our testing efforts. So listen up and learn how to avoid test automation forays into irresponsibility.
Jul 02, 2017•34 min
After attending a test conference do you sometimes wish a presentation or workshop could have been better? If you're like Greg the answer is yes. In this episode Greg shares his thoughts on his latest experience at STAREAST as well as some key takeaways and related thoughts he found himself pondering about automation after his experience. ring about automation after his experience.
Jun 25, 2017•36 min
Today we'll to be test talking with Maciek Konkolowicz about automated delivery channels. In this episode you'll discover what automated delivery channel actually is, as well as what bottlenecks to avoid, why refactoring is not always the right choice, how to get a quicker feedback loop, how to set up consistent environments and much, much more. Listen up and discover how to take your automated test execution to the next level....
Jun 18, 2017•35 min
In this episode Andreas Grabner will discuss how to get started monitoring the performance of your application using tools like Dynatrace's free Appmon . Discover some key performance indicators you need to know when analyzing your application performance logs. Andy will also share some of the common performance patterns he has seen after helping hundreds of folks analyze their performance issues....
Jun 11, 2017•34 min
Are you looking for an automation alternative to open source that's easy to work with for non-developers? Are you also looking for a solution that is easy to design and scale? If so, TestArchitect by LogiGear might be the perfect fit for your team. And after you hear the big announcement near the end of this episode, you'll be surprised at just how easy it is to get started. Check it out and discover how TestArchitect can help everyone on your team get started with test automation....
Jun 04, 2017•34 min
In this episode we'll test talk with Eran Kinsbruner, author of the brand new book The Digital Quality Handbook – a guide for achieving continuous quality in a DevOps reality . As mobile and web technologies continue to expand in almost all industries, it's critical to understand how to take existing practices for mobile and web apps to the next level. So listen up and discover how to successfully implement digital transformation for your company in an ever-changing technical landscape....
May 28, 2017•30 min
In this episode we'll test talk with Edaqa Mortoray , creator of the Leaf programming language. Edaqa currently works at Fuse , where he's in charge of layout and animation and helps drive much of the firm's testing efforts. He'll cover testing from a developer's perspective as well as topics as far and wide as "Will the automator be replaced by the automated?" You don't want to miss it!...
May 21, 2017•32 min
Are you still unsure about whether automation is really software development? In this episode Andrew Krug, founder of LazyCoder.io, shares some test automation techniques as well as some reasons why you should considers yourself a developer. Andrew asserts that if the main program you're leaving open on your computer all day is an IDE, you're a developer. Still not convinced? Listen up and discover how to take your automation developer skills using Fluent Testing Techniques to a higher level. Ch...
May 14, 2017•25 min
In this episode you'll discover how to say goodbye to traditional, script-based frameworks as we Test Talk with Jeff Fillegar, a DevOps and QA consultant for Tricentis . Jeff was an automation engineer long before he began working for software tool vendors like HPE and Tricentis, so he really knows his stuff. And with his experience as an automation engineer, he knows some solutions vendors can offer to truly benefit testers in the real world....
May 07, 2017•29 min
In this episode we'll be Test Talking about Functional Programming and Property- Based Testing. As a tester, I feel it's important to understand the latest trends and techniques in software development. Especially if it's a developer-based testing technique that we can educate our programmers about to help create better quality software. Eric Normand is the founder of PurelyFunctional.tv , where he develops Clojure training materials as well as on-site and in-person training in Clojure-related t...
Apr 30, 2017•30 min
In this episode Anshul Sharma, a lead automation engineer, discusses how Emmi Solutions made the move from testing on an in-house Selenium Grid to the Cloud. She also shares her top tips on how to expand test coverage while moving toward a full, continuous integration workflow.
Apr 23, 2017•28 min
Happy Easter - No Episode This Week. See you all next week.
Apr 15, 2017•47 sec
Rex Black, the founder of RBCS , author of more than 13 books and one of the first testing thought leaders I ever began following way back in the 90's joins us in this episode of TestTalks . Rex shares a bunch of tips and tricks to help you improve your testing efforts.
Apr 09, 2017•43 min
Almost every company I know is currently going through some sort of digital transformation. The speed with which QA is getting builds from development teams is increasing. But how do you know that the changes introduced by a new build are actually covered by your regression tests? In this episode Eran Sher , the CEO and co-founder of SealLights.io , shares some ways in which to deal with these issues (and more!) to greatly improve the quality of your unit and regression tests....
Apr 02, 2017•31 min
In this episode Joe Colantonio - the founder and host of Automation Guild , the first ever online conference dedicated 100% to test automation - will take a look back at the event, highlighting the sessions, speakers and top takeaways. Joe will cover the following topics: "The difference between Applitools and Galen "21 Free Visual Validation Tools "How testing vendors are embracing open source "How to grade your Selenium Tests "PageObjects vs Screenplay pattern "Is BDD just for Collaboration? "...
Mar 26, 2017•45 min
In this episode we'll be test talking with Danny McKeown, a test automation architect at Paychex, about Staying Ahead of the Mobile and Web Test Maturity Curve. Learn how Paychex iteratively built a well-defined web and mobile app test automation architecture. Listen in to hear some of Danny's lessons learned about the strategy and structure of their "wicked cool" automation solution.
Mar 19, 2017•39 min
With all the different mobile platforms available today, responsive design testing has become critical. Your website needs to look awesome -- not only on a luscious, 27'" Retina iMac, but also on netbooks, iPads, iPhones, smart watches & Blackberries. Your apps also need to scale to all those different screen resolutions. So how do we tests these UI based scenarios in an automated fashion? That's what we'll be test talking about today with the creator of the Galen Framework , Ivan Shubin. Ga...
Mar 12, 2017•28 min
Are you a tester who wants to get started with Selenium and C#? Or are you an automation engineer and want to learn more about Page Object or running your tests in parallel testing? In this episode Nikolay Advolodkin, founder of UltimateQA and the #1 Selenium WebDriver instructor in the world as rated by Udemy.com, shares with us some tips, tricks and more from his popular video courses on test automation.
Mar 05, 2017•33 min
Have you ever dreamed of making the transition from salaried automation development engineer or tester consultant? Or have you recently been laid off and feel now is the time to embrace the freelance consulting lifestyle? I've thought about it a few times myself, so I thought it would be fun to discover what it takes to actually make the transition and become a full time consultant. In this episode Zack Burt , author of Code for Cash and 30 Days to your First Freelance Programming Client shows t...
Feb 26, 2017•36 min
Have you even wondered how you could bring agile acceptance test driven development to the front of your development cycle? Sure ATDD and BDD sound great, but how is it really implemented in the real world? In this episode Jeanine Rust a software architect-developer in test shares with us how to bring acceptance testing into our organizations from the ground up. So listen up and hear how Jeanine put test into Dev-Test-Ops
Feb 19, 2017•28 min
Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process. However, the industry is changing and load testing should adjust to these changes. A stereotypical, last-moment performance check is not enough anymore. In this episode Alexander Podelko will share with us his views on how to align performance testing to these new industry trends. Listen up and discover how performance testing can still add value in an Agile world.
Feb 12, 2017•33 min