

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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Sep 17, 2017 • 36min
170: All Day DevOps with Derek Weeks & Mark Miller
In this episode, we Test Talks all about All Day DevOps. All Day DevOps is a FREE online community responsible for creating the world's largest DevOps conference. Our 2016 inaugural, 15-hour live online conference attracted 13,500 registered attendees. All Day DevOps 2017 will offer over 100, 30-minute sessions across six tracks in all time zones, simultaneously. Tracks include CI/CD, Modern Infrastructure and Monitoring, DevSecOps, Cultural Transformations, DevOps in Government, and the newly created "Tech Crawl" where companies will invite you to a sneak peek of what it's like to work on DevOps in their organization. All sessions are practitioner-led with a "no vendor pitch" policy strictly enforced.

Sep 10, 2017 • 36min
169: Critical Thinking in Testing with JeanAnn Harrison
Automation testing is awesome. But sometimes using a little old fashioned critical thinking is the only thing way you can achieve a test that actually finds the bugs in your application. In this episode, JeanAnn Harrison will share how critical thinking has aided her in her testing efforts, and how she has applied it throughout her long and successful career. You're going to discover some great techniques as well as some questions to ask yourself when creating your tests in order to identify risk areas and hard-to-find bugs. So listen up and prepare to level up your test-thinking skills!

Sep 3, 2017 • 36min
168: Testing @ the Speed of Concurrency with Mike Millgate
Learn the what, why and how of testing with concurrency. In this episode, Mike shares his automation journey from in-house machine testing to cloud-based testing. You'll also discover some lessons Mike learned while working on the HealthCare.org project.

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.


