

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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Aug 27, 2017 • 33min
167: Automation Carnal Knowledge with Cassandra H. Leung
Today we'll be Test Talking with Cassandra Leung about her upcoming presentation at Agile Testing Days on 5 Ways Automation is Like Sex and Why your Careers Isn't Doomed Without it. Cassandra shares her experience with automation and addresses many of the false claims, and misunderstanding managers and testers may have about automation. So get ready to discover how to have more pleasurable testing experiences with or without automation.

Aug 20, 2017 • 40min
166: Running Tests in Parallel in the Cloud with Nikolay Advolodkin
Is your automation test suite taking hours to run? Are you having issues with debugging and analyzing automated test failures? In this episode, we'll Test Talk with Nikolay Advolodkin, the founder of UltimateQA about the pros and cons of a few test cloud providers as well and some other test automation awesomeness.

Aug 13, 2017 • 32min
165: Top 12 PerfGuild Q&A Performance Tips
In this episode, I'll recap some of the top questions and answers I received during the PerfGuild Conference. PerfGuild was the first ever-online conference 100% dedicated to performance testing. So if you're involved with performance testing in any way, you'll definitely benefit from this episode.

Aug 6, 2017 • 29min
164: Digital Mobile & Emerging Technologies with Amir Rozenberg
I've recently have been getting lots of request from test talks listeners asking about newer advanced test automation capabilities. So that's what will be Test Talking about today with Amir Rozenberg. In this episode, you'll discover how some emerging technologies are going to affect your digital mobile testing efforts.

Jul 30, 2017 • 24min
163: Sauce Labs Test Analytics with Lubos Parobek
In this episode, we Test Talk with Lubos Parobek all about the brand new feature recently announce by Sauce Labs --Test Analytics. Test Analytics is the latest addition to the Sauce Labs Automated Testing Cloud. Whats awesome about the Test Analytics feature is that it will help you to reduces the time spent on analyzing test results by providing users trends on key metrics so that they can track down failures faster! So listen up and discover how to speed up your test automation debugging efforts.

Jul 23, 2017 • 32min
162: Shift Left Mobile Application Testing with Satyajit Malugu
Over the years, most testing efforts have been steadily shifting left to earlier in the development lifecycle. For web apps, testing and test automation have been gradually shifting into the development, design, and requirements phases of our software development lifecycles. But what about mobile development and testing? That's what we'll be Test Talking about today with Satyajit Malugu: How to Shift-Left Mobile Application Testing. Listen and learn about mobile testing, mocking tools, emulators, Appium, Espresso, common mobile testing design patterns and more!

Jul 16, 2017 • 36min
161: The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide with John Sonmez
As software engineers, we need to stay up to date with our technical skills and more. If you're like me, you sometimes wish there was a manual on how to stay ahead. If you feel the same way as I do listen up because In this episode we Test Talk with John Sonmez author of the new book The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job. My only issue is that I wish John named it the complete software engineer guide because it applied to anyone in the software development field including testers. So we cover all kinds of QA related topics like how QA or Another Technical Role can transition to Development. How to get a developer to work with testers, testing, QA basics, TDD, Unit Testing, Debugging and much, much more.

Jul 9, 2017 • 31min
160: Online Performance Testing Conference with Joe Colantonio
Are you or your team struggling with performance testing or are you afraid to release your application the wild because you simply don't know how it's going to perform under load? In this episode, you'll discover how PerfGuild can help you. PerfGuild is the first ever 100% online conference dedicated solely to performance testing. We're bringing together 15 plus of some of the best experts in the world when it comes to performance testing. Listen up to hear why performance testing is more important now than ever for your software development projects.

Jul 2, 2017 • 34min
159: With Great Judgement Comes Great Responsibility with Paul Grizzaffi
In this episode, Paul Grizzaffi explains responsible ways to approach automation, as well as some of the knowledge we need in order to be responsible. He also shares insights into automation responsibility from his own career, including how to use proper judgment with all our testing efforts. So listen up and learn how to avoid test automation forays into irresponsibility.

Jun 25, 2017 • 36min
158: Test Conference Enlightenment with Greg Paskal
After attending a test conference do you sometimes wish a presentation or workshop could have been better? If you're like Greg the answer is yes. In this episode Greg shares his thoughts on his latest experience at STAREAST as well as some key takeaways and related thoughts he found himself pondering about automation after his experience. ring about automation after his experience.


