

TestGuild Automation Podcast
Joe Colantonio
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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Mar 24, 2019 • 30min
246: Chaos Engineering with Tammy Butow
Do you want to build more resilient software systems? Do you like to break things on purpose? If so, this episode is for you. We'll be Test Talking about Chaos Engineering with Tammy Butow, a principal site reliability engineer at Gremlin. Tammy will explain how to test the ways in which your system responds to stress so you can identify and fix failures before they impact your customers—saving you and your company the embarrassment of software downtime, bad publicity and lost revenue. Listen up!

Mar 17, 2019 • 34min
245: Performance Testing in 2019 with PerfGuild
Unfortunately, not many software engineering organizations are familiar with the needs of performance testing or even have the expertise to do so. One major roadblock that prevents teams from successfully executing performance testing is a lack of training. Sometimes, just knowing where to start can be a challenge. One place to start is PerfGuild so in this episode, we'll be talking all about the online conference dedicated 100% to helping you succeed with performance testing. Listen up.

Mar 10, 2019 • 37min
244: Fast Forward Your Entire Development Cycle with Israel Rogoza and Avishai Moshka
In today's episode, we'll be Test Talking with Israel Rogoza and Avishai Moshka from IncrediBuild about how you can fast-forward your entire development cycle. Discover how to reduce your builds, tests and other tasks leveraging grid computing. So if you're looking for ways to accelerate your software development efforts without reducing the quality, listen up.

Mar 3, 2019 • 29min
243: Creating Klassi Frameworks with Larry Goddard
In this episode, we'll be Test Talking with Larry Goddard about how to create a "Klassi" automation framework. Larry will discuss some JavaScript-related test tools that have helped him create tests for UI, APIs and visual validations, as well as generate reports and run tests in CI. So listen up and discover how to improve your JavaScript-based automated testing efforts.

Feb 24, 2019 • 35min
242: Front-end Architecture Making a Way For Testing with Fabio Nolasco
There are many things that can disturb the perfect flow of front-end development and testing. However, for some reason, most people are led to believe that, whatever the answer is, it might involve new technology. But what if that was not true? What if what we actually need is a new approach, or better yet, a new methodology to guide us? In this episode, Fabio Nolasco gives a glimpse in his book Professional Front-end Architecture, explaining how front-end architects have an opportunity to act as catalysts so that good front-end code and testing can actually happen as it should in our organizations.

Feb 17, 2019 • 30min
241: Automate The Planet with Anton Angelov
Today we'll be test talking with Anton Angelov, the CTO and co-founder of Automate The Planet Ltd, inventor of both the BELLATRIX Test Automation Framework and MEISSA Distributed Test Runner. In this episode prepare to discover more about automation frameworks and how to run your tests in parallel.

Feb 10, 2019 • 30min
240: How to Listen to Your Tests with Alex Schladebeck
Today we'll be test talking with Alex Schladebeck about her views on Software Testing. Discover what linguistics has to do with testing, how to stop hating your UI tests and much more. If you're interested in software testing, you don't want to miss this episode.

Feb 3, 2019 • 22min
239: Clean Selenium Code Using Linting with Kwo Ding
Today we'll be test talking with Kwo Ding all about his new Sonar WebDriver Plugin which is a static code analysis tool that helps you to follow best practices for writing WebDriver tests. If you're interested in writing clean Selenium code, you don't want to miss this episode.

Jan 27, 2019 • 32min
238: Karate API Testing with Peter Thomas
Karate is a popular open-source project for web-service API testing. Inspired by Cucumber – it combines BDD syntax with a DSL carefully crafted to deal with HTTP. In this episode, Peter will walk through some of the features of Karate, and how it can be effectively used for testing web-service APIs. You get to hear straight from the creator of Karate the motivations for creating this framework in the first place, how it differs from the competition, and how it helps accelerate the development and quality-assurance of web-services of all kinds

Jan 20, 2019 • 24min
237: Sneak Peek of AutomationGuild 2019
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 2019 Automation Guild Online Conference and Community. Listen in and find out how you and your team can accelerate your test automation efforts in 2019. Register for Automation Guild now: https://automationguild.com


