TestGuild Automation Podcast

Want to know the best way to increase the visibility of your test automation? In this episode, Nikita Sidorevich shares why automated test reporting is critical to the success of your project. Discover how to analyze and debug your failing tests quicker, and detect flaky tests earlier. Also, hear how to get your whole team involved using flexible, team-specific automation test results dashboarding.

Want to know how testers' jobs changed during the Pre-Covid, Covid, and Post-Covid eras? In this episode, Raj Subrameyer, author of the book Skyrocket Your Career, shares what you need to know to succeed in this new reality we now face. Discover why your Social Media Footprint is critical to your personal and career growth, what skills are currently in demand, and tons of actionable advice on how to bulletproof your career under any circumstance. Listen up!

As teams continue to shift left, testers will need to be familiar with all kinds of testing techniques. One skill that is essential to have is performance engineering. In this episode, join software tester Dave Westerveld as he shares the basics of performance testing. Discover the fundamentals of performance testing, including tests and tools to use, monitoring, types of performance tests, and more. You don't want to miss it. Listen up!

Want to develop a diverse testing program that gets your whole team involved in ensuring quality? If so, this episode is for you as testing expert Mark Winteringham discusses his upcoming book Testing Web APIs. Discover how to design and implement a web API testing strategy, a risk-driven approach to API testing, and more. Listen up!

In many ways, API testing is faster and far superior to automated UI Testing. Find out why In this episode. Kristin Jackvony, a software tester, blogger, and soon-to-be-published author, will share some key takeaways from her LinkedIn course on Postman Essential Training. For all you testers and developers that need to do API testing, you're in for a treat. You'll learn all about Postman, a popular (and free) solution, and how it can help you with all your API testing needs. Listen up!

Running automation testing across the enterprise is hard. There must be a better way. In this episode, Oren Rubin, founder of TestIm.io, and Maor Frankel, a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, share how to scale testing using TestOps principles. Discover how to leverage control, management, and insights to unjumble your automation's growing complexity. This is not theory. Moar shares how he successfully implemented TestOps at Microsoft with his team. Listen up!

Did you know that RPA is the fastest-growing area of Robot Framework adoption? In this episode, Antti Karjalainen, Founder and CEO of Robocorp, explains why and how to create an open-source stack for RPA. Discover how to simplify and streamline the RPA development process, and how it can enable anyone to share and distribute robots seamlessly. Listen up and find out how to focus on automating instead of configuring.

As testers, we need to change with the times. What may have made sense to automate ten years ago may not still apply today. In this episode, Gojko Adžić will share five universal rules for test automation. Discover why the test pyramid may no longer apply to modern test automation, and learn about some newer approaches to testing. Listen up and find out how to automate non-deterministic tests.

When should you consider using a low-code test automation solution? In this episode, Diana Oks, an Automation Engineer at Vulcan Cyber, explains the benefits of using a low-code solution and how it can simplify your workflow. Discover what low-code automation tools are, how to choose one and how they can make your life easier. Listen up!

When it comes to software development, it's not always easy to articulate what we want from the software. That's where Behavior Driven Development (BDD) comes in. In this episode, Seb Rose and Gaspar Nagy, authors of the new book Formulation: Document examples with Given/When/Then, explain how all stakeholders need to be involved in creating a product's specification. Discover BDD tips for your entire development process, including the specific technical practices required to drive development using collaboratively authored specifications and living documentation successfully. Listen Up!