TestGuild Automation Podcast

What is the true meaning of quality? In this episode, Ronald Cummings-John, author of Leading Quality: How Great Leaders Deliver High-Quality Software and Accelerate Growth, will share how to influence and align your company's definition of quality so that you can deliver the best possible experience to your clients. Discover the techniques successful leaders use to make their strategic decisions. You'll also learn which tools will ensure that your team is in alignment for achieving common goals.

The education of our future generation of testers is critical! In this episode, Simon Prior will share some ways to coach up your teams to become testing leaders in your organization. Discover the skills you need to grow, and how hiring with Neurodiversity in mind can help in numerous ways. Don't miss it!

Most testers I know complain about using BDD. In this episode, Kamil Nicieja, author of Writing Great Specifications Using Specification by Example and Gherkin, will talk about using BDD correctly. Discover how to capture executable software designs in Gherkin following the SBE method. Listen in to learn to choose the best scenarios, write them in a way that anyone can understand, and ensure anyone can easily update them.

If you're a tester, you might be wondering why you should care about security testing. In this episode, I'll discuss why having security testing skills is more important than you might think. Discover some security topics that can help advance your career, and get a preview of some of the actionable sessions and speakers on the docket of this year's SecureGuild online conference.

Tests break. When they do, you need to find the root cause quickly. In this episode, Bnaya Peretz, a developer at Testim, will discuss an open-source tool to help troubleshoot Puppeteer and Playwright tests. Discover how to save time troubleshooting failed tests, speed up your release cycles, and increase your ROI.

Not many things are more annoying to an automation engineer than a UI with dynamic elements that change their locators with every test script run. In this episode, Eldar Kravetsky, co-founder, and CTO of TestProject, will share how their AI-enabled test recorder can help with dynamic elements and more. Discover how the AI-Powered, Self-Healing capabilities in TestProject's Smart Recorder can automatically handle test maintenance and debugging, and keep your tests running smoothly.

I love real-world automation success stories. In this episode, Dave Martin will share how he created a Robot Framework from scratch that regularly runs about 50,000 tests and has a dozen contributors. Discover features and best practices for implementing Robot Framework in your organization. Listen up!

How can AI help with end-to-end testing? In this episode, Bertold Kolics, a Software Quality Manager at mabl, shares his thoughts on AI as well as the danger of generalization in software testing. Discover the functionality of mabl beyond browser testing, and sone vendor-agnostic tips for end-to-end testing in general.

Creating reliable automation is hard, especially at scale in a startup. In this episode Priyanka Halder, Head of Engineering at GoodRx will share her highly-successful automation strategy. Discover how to overcome some of the biggest automation challenges, advice on what to avoid, and how her team has one of the industry's lowest fail rates. You don't want to miss this one!

If you are on social media, you've probably seen folks discussing the free TestProject automation framework. With the release of their new OpenSDK, there's, even more, to be excited about. In this episode, Kevin Dunne will talk about the most recent version of their OpenSDK. Discover what's new in this significant milestone that can make your Selenium and Appium automation efforts easier.