

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.
Episodes
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Nov 18, 2018 • 23min
229: A Journey through Test Automation Patterns with Seretta Gamba
Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to find the Rosetta stone—the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics? In this episode, we'll be Test Talking with Seretta Gamba about her new book, A Journey through Test Automation Patterns: One team's adventures with the Test Automation Patterns Wiki that she co-authored with Dorothy Graham. This book is like a testing Rosetta stone for anyone who is embarking on or is already developing automation testing scripts. Get clarity and actionable advice on test automation patterns to improve any automation testing situation you might find yourself in.

Nov 11, 2018 • 36min
228: Information Not Automation with Ingo Philipp
What is Continuous Testing? What does it mean to you and your team's testing efforts? That's what we'll be test talking about today in this episode with Ingo Philipp, a Distinguished Evangelist at Tricentis. Prepare to discover what the fundamentals of testing are, and why it's all about information and not automation.

Nov 4, 2018 • 23min
227: Fuel Your Performance Testing Using Loadster with Andy Hawkes
In this episode discover how to fuel up your performance testing efforts as we test talk with Andy Hawkes. Andy is the creator of a new performance test tools called Loadster. So listen up and discover how using Loadster can help you lower the barrier or entry for newbie performance test engineers and help find performance risk in your application before your customer does.

Oct 28, 2018 • 26min
226: Acceptance Testing Using Gauge with Zabil Maliackal
In this episode, we'll be Test Talking with Zabil Maliackal, Gauge Product Manager at ThoughtWorks, about acceptance testing. If you're looking for an open-source automation framework that requires less code and less maintenance, and want to focus more of your efforts on the acceptance piece of testing, you don't want to miss this episode.

Oct 21, 2018 • 27min
225: WEKA Machine Learning Automation Testing with Bhavani R
As you know, the number of tools that leverage machine-learning algorithms to help with UI based software automation testing keeps increasing. But what about leveraging AI for helping in other areas, like test data management? That's what we'll be test talking about today with Bhavani R. In this episode Bhavani will share her insight on to how her team uses an open-source tool called WEKA to help her make predictions for her team's test data activities, including test estimation, test coverage, and issue forecasting.

Oct 14, 2018 • 34min
224: The Need For Velocity with Eran Sher
In this episode we'll be test talking with Eran Sher, CEO and co-founder of SeaLights.io, about software quality analytics and why analytics are so important in today's fast-paced software developing and testing world. Discover actionable tips on how to track and optimize your testing efforts to increase your team's velocity without sacrificing quality.

Oct 7, 2018 • 37min
223: Testing Dream Journaling (Smashing Sand Castles) with Noemi Ferrera
Did you enjoy smashing sand castles when you were a kid? If so, it might explain why you're about to listen to this podcast. In this episode we'll test talk with computer scientist Noemi Ferrera about AR/VR/AI machine learning and game testing using the AirTest Project. Get ready to discover a bunch of actionable testing tips for newer technologies.

Sep 30, 2018 • 35min
222: AI-powered Test Automation Dashboard with Dzmitry Humianiuk
In today's episode get ready to discover ReportPortal.io, an open-source, AI-powered Test Automation dashboard. We'll be test talking with Dzmitry Humianiuk, Product Manager at EPAM. Dzmitry will explain how ReportPortal.io can help you with acquiring, aggregating and analyzing test results to quickly determine the health of your test runs using machine learning.

Sep 23, 2018 • 28min
221: Tester in Your Pocket with Evan Wiley
In this episode, we'll be Test Talking with Evan Wiley a Quality Engineer for a large financial company all about his experience on how to get that automation culture into sprint teams. So listen up to discover a whole bunch of real word experience around automation testing in action.

Sep 16, 2018 • 29min
220: VR and AR in Mobile Apps Testing with Bj Aberle
With the ability to experience VR on mobile devices and WebVR on the horizon, the potential for VR to go mainstream is huge. But what does this mean for testing? That's what you'll discover in this episode as we TestTalk with BJ about VR and AR in Mobile Apps Testing. Prepare to discover how to deal with new test environments, configurations, and interfaces for testing virtual reality and augmented reality mobile apps.


