TestGuild Automation Podcast

Quality is an integral part of Digital Transformation. The number one goal of Digital Transformation in any DevOps/ IT organization is to improve the end-user experience. In this episode, Chris Rowett, Vice President of Customer Success at SeaLights, will share his insight on what he has seen work for teams involved in such transformations. He'll explain how to make smarter release decisions, tactics and execution advice, and real-world examples. Listen up!

What's the future of AI-based testing? In this episode, Shani Shoham, founder of 21labs, shares his experience with AI-based testing. Discover what AI can and cannot do, as well as some relevant developments you need to know about. Listen up!

Do you have test automation in place, but it's continually breaking and causing endless headaches? In this episode, Kevin Lamping, author of the new book The Web App Testing Guidebook, shares the reasons he created this resource and how it can help you by providing examples of UI testing of real-world websites using WebdriverIO. Discover how this guide will teach you everything you need to know to get off the ground with UI testing. Listen up.

Are you in the market for a new test tool? Or are you frustrated with your current one and want a change? In this episode, Darrel Farris a Solutions Architect at mabl, shares what you should look for when choosing the right tool for your team. Discover how to decide how you want your tests to look and build your list of "requirements" and much, much, more. Listen up!

Want to know the current trends in open source automation, performance, and BDD testing? In this episode, Kevin Dunne, GM of TestProject, Matthias Rapp, GM of SpecFlow, and Ivan Vanderbyl, Head of Product at Flood, share the results from Tricentis' first-ever State of Open Source Testing Survey. Discover the latest trends and developments across the industry gleaned from over 2,000 responses. Listen up to learn the latest in the Behavior Driven Development, Functional Testing, and Load Testing domains. Check it out!

Software teams are shipping software faster than ever before. On top of this, web apps are becoming increasingly sophisticated and need to run against multiple devices. In this episode, Arjun Attam, a Program Manager on Playwright at Microsoft, shares a new E2E framework called Playwright. Discover how it differs from Puppeteer as well as how it can help you create more reliable cross-browser automation tests that are fast, reliable, and capable.

Do you use Selenium, but have Cypress envy? What if you could have the same "Cypress" experience using Selenium WebDriver? In this episode Carlos Kidman, creator of Pylenium, will share his wrapper around the Selenium WebDriver Python API, which provides a more Pythonic interface. If you're new to automation and/or are looking for an easier way to create automation tests, listen up!

Do you know that there is another design pattern you can follow besides page objects that make your test more readable and maintainable? In this episode, Jan Molak, creator of Serenity/JS, shares his thoughts on test automation using the Screenplay pattern. Discover how Serenity/JS and the Screenplay Pattern can help you break the chains of UI-only automation and write high-quality acceptance tests interacting with any interface of your system.

Everyone is looking for ways to automate as many things as possible — not just tests. To achieve this goal, one tool more folks are turning to is RPA. In this episode, Sune Engsig, a Senior Product Evangelist at LEAPWORK, shares automation insights and productivity tips for RPA. Discover what is RPA, when it should be used, and some tips to get started. Listen up.

Are you an Appium automation engineer? Or do you need to automate mobile applications? In this episode, the main leader and contributor at Appium, Jonathan Lipps, will share his vision, technical possibilities, and changes you need to know about for Appium 2.0. Jonathan will also share his involvement with a new must-know resource for Appium testers—HeadSpin University. You don't want to miss this episode!