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 testing and how test automation will change in the New Year.
Dec 30, 2018•24 min
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 effectively to deliver quality software? That's what we'll be test talking about in this episode with Katrina...
Dec 16, 2018•33 min
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.
Dec 09, 2018•29 min
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 are loving it." So I asked Casey if he would be open to being interviewed about his experiences with c...
Dec 02, 2018•36 min
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 better than it ever was before.
Nov 25, 2018•31 min
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 anyone who is embarking on or is already developing automation testing scripts. Get clarity and actionab...
Nov 18, 2018•23 min
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.
Nov 11, 2018•36 min
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, 2018•23 min
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, 2018•26 min
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, 2018•27 min
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, 2018•34 min
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, 2018•37 min
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, 2018•35 min
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, 2018•28 min
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, 2018•29 min
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, 2018•37 min
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, 2018•40 min
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, 2018•27 min
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, 2018•31 min
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, 2018•29 min
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, 2018•33 min
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, 2018•31 min
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, 2018•35 min
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, 2018•33 min
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, 2018•35 min
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, 2018•27 min
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, 2018•28 min
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, 2018•29 min
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, 2018•27 min
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, 2018•31 min
