

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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Apr 30, 2017 • 30min
150: Functional Programming Property Based Testing with Eric Normand
In this episode we'll be Test Talking about Functional Programming and Property- Based Testing. As a tester, I feel it's important to understand the latest trends and techniques in software development. Especially if it's a developer-based testing technique that we can educate our programmers about to help create better quality software. Eric Normand is the founder of PurelyFunctional.tv, where he develops Clojure training materials as well as on-site and in-person training in Clojure-related technologies. He also consults on software architecture, development practices, DevOps, and functional programming.

Apr 23, 2017 • 28min
149: Moving From Selenium Grid to the Cloud with Anshul Sharma
In this episode Anshul Sharma, a lead automation engineer, discusses how Emmi Solutions made the move from testing on an in-house Selenium Grid to the Cloud. She also shares her top tips on how to expand test coverage while moving toward a full, continuous integration workflow.

Apr 15, 2017 • 47sec
Happy Easter - No Episode This Week
Happy Easter - No Episode This Week. See you all next week.

Apr 9, 2017 • 43min
148: Foundations of Modern Software Testing with Rex Black
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.

Apr 2, 2017 • 31min
147: Continuous Testing Management Made Easy with Eran Sher
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.

Mar 26, 2017 • 45min
146: Top 12 Takeaways - Automation Guild Conference Recap
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

Mar 19, 2017 • 39min
145: Automation Testing Maturity Curve with Danny McKeown
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.

Mar 12, 2017 • 28min
144: Automated Responsive Design Testing using Galen with Ivan Shubin
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.

Mar 5, 2017 • 33min
143: Selenium with C# with Nikolay Advolodkin
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.

Feb 26, 2017 • 36min
142: Automation Code for Cash with Zack Burt
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!


