TestGuild Automation Podcast

Do you love python? Want to use a python based automation framework for your entire web UI testing needs? In this episode, we speak with Michael Mintz creator of SeleniumBase, all about his Python automation framework. Discover all the features of Seleniumbase that can help you with your selenium, UI testing, visual validation needs & more. Listen up.

We all know that excellent testing practices will help maximize your project quality and delivery speed. In this episode, Vladimir Khorikov, author of Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, shares his best practices for designing and writing unit tests. Even if you're a tester and not a developer, you'll need to listen in to know what to look out for when working with your scrum team. Don't miss it!

Would you like to save 20-30% of the time it takes to create automation tests? Feeling frustrated while writing unique locators? In this episode, Sanjay Kumar, creator of ChroPath, will share how to do this and more. Discover how you can use ChroPath to not only generate unique locators for your tests but also how to leverage it as a complete script-writing platform. Don't miss it!

Even if you test your microservices in isolation, it's challenging—and potentially dangerous—to test a live microservices system that's changing and growing. In this episode Brandon Byars, author of Testing Microservices with Mountebank, shares how service virtualization can help imitate the components of a distributed microservices application. Discover tips on how this approach can take your microservices testing efforts to the next level.

Automated testing best practices are critical if you want to succeed with test automation! Just as important is knowing what works is what doesn't work as well. In this episode, Nikolay Advolodkin, founder of Ultimate QA and a solution architect at SauceLabs will share his top automation best practices and things to avoid (hint: BDD). Discover some red flags to look for in your team's automation efforts. Listen up!

In this episode, discover what the Triangle Software Quality Association (TSQA) is and why you need to join it. Susan Marie and Jenny Bramble will share their experience with organizing a conference, and preview some of their top sessions for this year's event. If you dig testing communities, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen up!

In this episode, discover an end-to-end solution that requires low code with the ability to run your test on an infinite amount of browsers, OS, and real device combinations. Kevin Dunne, an SVP of Strategic Initiatives at TestProject, and Kristian Meier, Technical Director of Business Development at SauceLabs, will share their take on this exciting new initiative. Don't miss it!

Are you or your team struggling with automation testing? Do you have a hard time getting automation buy-in from your teams? In this episode, you'll get a sneak peek of what you'll discover at the 2020 Automation Guild Online Conference and Community. Listen in and find out how you and your team can accelerate your test automation efforts in 2020. Register for Automation Guild now: http://automationguild.com

Many automation engineers spend most of their time worrying about flaky tests, reducing runtime, etc. But what about trying to optimize where and how they run their automation tests? In this episode, Adam Goucher will share his view on why automation infrastructure is so crucial to any automation effort. Listen up and discover tips on how to bring Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Operational Excellence to your automation infrastructure.

Is this the decade that you finally start your automation in testing efforts? Or are you looking for a way to improve your currently failing automation project? In this episode, Jim Hazen author of the book Before the Code – First Steps to Automation in Testing explains a tool-agnostic approach to help. Automation in testing is a lot more than just recording a test or writing code, it takes planning and lots of other front-end tasks in order for it to be successful. Listen up to learn about the things you need to do first before writing a line of code.