TestGuild Automation Podcast

Rex Black, the founder of RBCS, author of more than 13 books and one of the first testing thought leaders I ever began following way back in the 90's joins us in this episode of TestTalks. Rex shares a bunch of tips and tricks to help you improve your testing efforts.

Almost every company I know is currently going through some sort of digital transformation. The speed with which QA is getting builds from development teams is increasing. But how do you know that the changes introduced by a new build are actually covered by your regression tests? In this episode Eran Sher, the CEO and co-founder of SealLights.io, shares some ways in which to deal with these issues (and more!) to greatly improve the quality of your unit and regression tests.

In this episode Joe Colantonio - the founder and host of Automation Guild, the first ever online conference dedicated 100% to test automation - will take a look back at the event, highlighting the sessions, speakers and top takeaways. Joe will cover the following topics: "The difference between Applitools and Galen "21 Free Visual Validation Tools "How testing vendors are embracing open source "How to grade your Selenium Tests "PageObjects vs Screenplay pattern "Is BDD just for Collaboration? "TestOps – how automation fits into CI

In this episode we'll be test talking with Danny McKeown, a test automation architect at Paychex, about Staying Ahead of the Mobile and Web Test Maturity Curve. Learn how Paychex iteratively built a well-defined web and mobile app test automation architecture. Listen in to hear some of Danny's lessons learned about the strategy and structure of their "wicked cool" automation solution.

With all the different mobile platforms available today, responsive design testing has become critical. Your website needs to look awesome -- not only on a luscious, 27'" Retina iMac, but also on netbooks, iPads, iPhones, smart watches & Blackberries. Your apps also need to scale to all those different screen resolutions. So how do we tests these UI based scenarios in an automated fashion? That's what we'll be test talking about today with the creator of the Galen Framework, Ivan Shubin. Galen Framework is an open-source tool for responsive and cross-browser layout testing. Listen up and discover how to automate your UI-based test cases.

Are you a tester who wants to get started with Selenium and C#? Or are you an automation engineer and want to learn more about Page Object or running your tests in parallel testing? In this episode Nikolay Advolodkin, founder of UltimateQA and the #1 Selenium WebDriver instructor in the world as rated by Udemy.com, shares with us some tips, tricks and more from his popular video courses on test automation.

Have you ever dreamed of making the transition from salaried automation development engineer or tester consultant? Or have you recently been laid off and feel now is the time to embrace the freelance consulting lifestyle? I've thought about it a few times myself, so I thought it would be fun to discover what it takes to actually make the transition and become a full time consultant. In this episode Zack Burt, author of Code for Cash and 30 Days to your First Freelance Programming Client shows the way. So listen up to learn how to take control of your life and never have to work in a cubicle again!

Have you even wondered how you could bring agile acceptance test driven development to the front of your development cycle? Sure ATDD and BDD sound great, but how is it really implemented in the real world? In this episode Jeanine Rust a software architect-developer in test shares with us how to bring acceptance testing into our organizations from the ground up. So listen up and hear how Jeanine put test into Dev-Test-Ops

Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process. However, the industry is changing and load testing should adjust to these changes. A stereotypical, last-moment performance check is not enough anymore. In this episode Alexander Podelko will share with us his views on how to align performance testing to these new industry trends. Listen up and discover how performance testing can still add value in an Agile world.

Do you have a hard time of getting historical data for your test runs? Do you have flaky test, but not sure which test are consistently flaky? In this episode Hugh McCamphill a Principle Software Engineer in Test with Liberty IT in Belfast shares with us how you can instrument your test result information to provide actionable data, paving the way for more robust, reliable and timely test results. Listen now to discover how you can move away from the 're-run' culture and better support your continuous integration goals of having quick, reliable, deterministic tests.