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TestGuild Automation Podcast

Joe Colantoniotestguild.com
TestGuild Automation Podcast (formally Test Talks) is a weekly podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio, which geeks out on all things software test automation. TestGuild Automation covers news found in the testing space, reviews books about automation, and speaks with some of the thought leaders in the test automation field. We'll aim to interview some of today's most successful and inspiring software engineers, and test automation thought leaders.
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Episodes

227: Fuel Your Performance Testing Using Loadster with Andy Hawkes

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.

Nov 04, 201823 min

226: Acceptance Testing Using Gauge with Zabil Maliackal

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.

Oct 28, 201826 min

225: WEKA Machine Learning Automation Testing with Bhavani R

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 her make predictions for her team's test data activities, including test estimation, test coverage, ...

Oct 21, 201827 min

224: The Need For Velocity with Eran Sher

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.

Oct 14, 201834 min

223: Testing Dream Journaling (Smashing Sand Castles) with Noemi Ferrera

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.

Oct 07, 201837 min

222: AI-powered Test Automation Dashboard with Dzmitry Humianiuk

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.

Sep 30, 201835 min

221: Tester in Your Pocket with Evan Wiley

In this episode , we'll be Test Talking with Evan Wiley a Quality Engineer for a large financial company all about his experience on how to get that automation culture into sprint teams. So listen up to discover a whole bunch of real word experience around automation testing in action.

Sep 23, 201828 min

220: VR and AR in Mobile Apps Testing with Bj Aberle

With the ability to experience VR on mobile devices and WebVR on the horizon, the potential for VR to go mainstream is huge. But what does this mean for testing? That's what you'll discover in this episode as we TestTalk with BJ about VR and AR in Mobile Apps Testing. Prepare to discover how to deal with new test environments, configurations, and interfaces for testing virtual reality and augmented reality mobile apps.

Sep 16, 201829 min

219: The State of Software Quality in 2018 with Shailesh Rao

As software continues to eat the world, it's important to recognize the impact of poor quality software devouring your business. Apple's bold step of identifying 2018 as the year of software quality is a call for other organizations to do the same. How is yours meeting this software quality challenge? In this episode , we'll Test Talk with Shailesh Rao, current COO of BrowserStack. Shailesh has previously worked with Google to help develop and scale their Cloud Platform, and also led groups at S...

Sep 09, 201837 min

218: Driving Innovation in Testing at Mabl with Lisa Crispin

Are you looking for ways to improve your continuous delivery testing process? Want to start incorporating new technologies like AI and machine learning to accomplish that? In this episode testing superstar and popular conference speaker Lisa Crispin, co-author of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, will share her views and tips on testing and continuous delivery as well as what she'll be doing in her new role ...

Sep 02, 201840 min

217: Selenium Above and Beyond with Andrew Krug

In this episode , we'll be test talking with the lazy coder Andrew Krug. Andrew just created a new resource called Selenium: Above and Beyond and that what well'' be covering today. Get ready to discover a learning package that takes you beyond beginner level automaton and to a new level of automation awesomeness. Listen up and find out how to leverage your existing selenium scripts for performance testing, securing testing and more. Check it out.

Aug 26, 201827 min

216: TestCafe to Automate Hard To Test Web Controls with Julian Bucknall

In this episode we'll be Test Talking with Julian Bucknall, the CTO at Developer Express about their open-source Web browser automation tool, TestCafe. Discover why TestCafe was created as well as how it can potentially help you and your teams with your test automation efforts.

Aug 19, 201831 min

215: Ruby Testing Culture with Jason Swett

I always hear about how most Ruby developers have embraced testing. So today we're going to test talk about the Ruby Testing Culture from a developers perspective with Jason Sweet from codewithJason.com. Jason has a bunch of courses and articles on his blog about ruby testing, and he shares his testing knowledge on a whole bunch of topics with us today in this episode . Check it out.

Aug 12, 201829 min

214: API Fortress Testing and Monitoring with Patrick Poulin

Enterprise software needs to innovate quickly to stay competitive. Manual testing of APIs is inefficient. But many teams struggle to understand how to programmatically tests APIs. There are many tools out there but which one is right for you? Today we'll be Test Talking with Patrick Poulin one of the founders of API Fortress a powerful API testing platform to help eliminate testing bottlenecks. In this episode , you'll discover why you should add API Fortress to your list of API testing tools to...

Aug 05, 201833 min

213: Automation in Testing Superfriends with Richard Bradshaw & Mark Winteringham

How do you educate the other members of your team about your automation? How do you talk to management about automation? We sometimes focus so heavily on the tooling that we lose sight of what it is we're trying to test. In this episode, we'll Test Talk with Richard Bradshaw and Mark Winteringham about their new, imitative website, automationintesting.com. Discover how to be truly successful with your testing efforts by leveraging the right tools to help you test the right things.

Jul 29, 201831 min

212: Value Stream Integration with Matt Angerer & Jeff Downs

With more and more companies moving away from centralization or standardization of their tools to conduct delivery of software it even harder to establish traceability for one artifact to the next across the entire organization That's where the power of value stream integration comes in. In this episode , we'll be Test Talking all about Value Stream Integration with Jeff Downs and Matt Angerer from Tasktop Technologies. Get ready to discover how you can dramatically improve the efficiency of you...

Jul 22, 201835 min

211: Lowering Performance Testing Barriers Using k6 with Robin Gustafsson

Want to lower the performance testing barriers to help get your developers involved in testing? K6 is an open source, modern load testing tool that provides a clean, approachable scripting API, local and cloud execution, with command and control through CLI or a REST API using JavaScript. In this episode , you'll discover developer-friendly performance tips as well as how k6 was developed to make the performance testing barrier to entry as smooth as possible for your developers....

Jul 15, 201833 min

210: Selenium WebDriver Past, Present & Future with Simon Stewart

In this episode , we test talk with the creator of Selenium Simon Stewart. Simon shares his view on the past, present, and future of the Selenium project. So get ready to discover how and why Selenium was created, AI, W3C, Simon's approach to automation and more. Simon also reveals his top actionable advice around succeeding with automation.

Jul 08, 201835 min

209: API Functional Testing with Klaus Neuhold & Dave Karow

Want a way to create quicker, more reliable functional tests without the overhead of a full-blown UI test? Do you want to develop functional tests that can also be used as performance tests later in the software development lifecycle? If so, this episode is for you. We'll be Test Talking with Klaus and Dave from Blaze Meter about API functional testing and the benefits you'll get by using this approach to software testing.

Jul 01, 201827 min

208: Dynamic Selenium Grid using Zalenium with Diego Molina

Are you looking for a way to quickly create a disposable, flexible, container-based Selenium Grid infrastructure that has features like video recording, live preview, basic auth & online/offline dashboards? If so than this episode is for you. Diego Molina, one of the Selenium core committers, official maintainer of the Docker-Selenium project and the creator of Zalenium, shares his automation knowledge.

Jun 24, 201828 min

207: Test Leadership in Agile with Anna Royzman

In this fast-paced world of Agile and continuous testing, the need for test leaders has never been higher. So if you are responsible for creating a testing practice for your company or team--and managing the process and people-- this episode is for you. Anna Royzman, founder of A Quality Leadership Institute and creator of the Test Leadership Congress and ConTest, will share some of the critical test leadership skills you'll need to help lead your team with testing. You'll discover how to influe...

Jun 17, 201829 min

206: Shift-left Your Teams QA Efforts with the Testing Guild

Facing Software Quality Issues? Announcing an Online Conference for Testers by Testers. 20 + Experts Reveal Their Top Software Testing & QA Secrets. Join the first-ever Testing Guild an online conference and community dedicated 100% to helping YOU with your Testing & QA efforts https://testingguild.com

Jun 10, 201827 min

205: .Net and Integration Testing Pitfalls with James Penning

Integration Testing is often one of the toughest parts of the software development lifecycle--so in this episode we'll test talk with James Penning of Get-Testy.com about the Top 5 Pitfalls when Writing Integration Tests, some tips for .NET testers, and more testing awesomeness.

Jun 03, 201831 min

204: Discover Katalon Studio for Test Automation with Raghav Pal

Finding the right testing tool from all the available automation testing tools is tough. I've interviewed over 200 testers and developers on my TestTalks and based on this treasure trove of test automation awesomeness; I created an Ultimate Testing Tools list. Since Publishing it, I've gotten a bunch of comments asking why Katalon Studio was not on the list. So I decided to create an episode all around Katalon Studio with automation testing expert Raghav Pal....

May 27, 201835 min

203: Performance Advisory Council with Henrik Rexed

In this episode , Henrik Rexed from Neotys joins us to test talk about how he's helping to spread the gospel of performance testing earlier on the development lifecycle. Discover what the Performance Advisory Council is all about as well as how to join the online PAC events to learn more about the latest in performance testing.

May 20, 201832 min

202: AI for User Flow Verification with Jason Arbon

The most significant challenge for an app team in today's Agile, Continuous Integration (CI), and DevOps-driven world is just making sure the app still works like it did yesterday. There isn't enough time to manually test each build, let alone craft test automation. Even when teams do try to test, it adds days of delay and thousands of dollars of cost, and yet the team is still not happy with the results. In this episode , Jason Arbon explains how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learnin...

May 13, 201833 min

201: Intelligent Process Automation with Jonathon Wright

In the digital economy of today, every business is a software business, and how we create software is forever changing. So if you're looking to learn where software development and testing is heading, listen up. In this episode Jonathon Wright (The Automation Cyborg) shares his vision of Intelligent Process Automation and how it has already helped numerous companies begin to make the shift towards the future he foresees.

May 06, 201843 min

200: Two Hundred Episodes Powered by Sauce Labs with Lubos Parobek

Welcome to the 200th episode of TestTalks. Thanks for your listening awesomeness! Rather than make this milestone episode all about me -- I wanted to talk more about Sauce Labs and all the innovation you've been up to. And remind folks that Sauce Labs' sponsorship is what enables me to continue doing this week after week. So listen up and discover why I'm proud to have Sauce as my exclusive sponsor.

Apr 29, 201830 min

199: Automating iOS Apps In the Apple Bubble with Shashikant Jagtap

Apple introduced it's UI Testing framework (XCUITest) at WWDC 2015. The XCUITest framework enabled UI Tests to be written in Swift, Apple's own programming language, which can be understood by both QA and Developers to bridge the technology gap. In this episode , Shashikant goes over why he thinks native automation for iOS apps might be a better option than Appium or Calabash. He also goes over other tips on automating in Apple's iOS ecosystem.

Apr 22, 201830 min

198: Testing and Planning For The Unknown with Kinga Witko

Developing software always involves dealing with unknowns. Unanticipated issues and changes always tend to creep in during development. But how do you deal with the unknown when planning your sprints? How do you handle unforeseen bugs? In this episode , we'll Test Talk with Kinga Witko, who'll offer some tips for dealing with the unknowns, accessibility testing and more.

Apr 15, 201830 min
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