TestGuild Automation Testing Podcast

Have you ever wondered how gaming companies test their video games? If so, this episode is for you. Amber Race, a senior test developer at Big Fish Games, gives us an insider’s peek at how she approaches game testing.

Amber shares some of her favorite testing techniques and tools like Postman, which helps her to leverage APIs to automate many back-end testing activities. So if you ever wanted to know what it takes to become a tester at a gaming company you won’t want to miss this episode.

Direct download: ttAmberRaceGameTesting121.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:01am EDT

Metasploit is a cool open-source framework for conducting penetration tests. Not only does it help you conduct your tests, but it has a bunch of modules that can help you scan a target system looking for vulnerabilities.

In this episode Keith Watson, author of the Introduction to Penetration Testing Using Metasploit Pluralsight course will give us a high-level overview of how to get started with Metasploit, as well as some best practices for penetration testing.


Get your white hats on and listen up!

Direct download: ttKeithWatsonMetasploit120.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Are you looking for an awesome mobile grid solution like Sauce Labs, but don’t yet have a budget for this type of service? Although using an existing Cloud-based service is optimal, there are times when -- and reasons why -- having your own in-house mobile grid setup can be useful.

In this episode Justin Ison, a senior software engineer at Microsoft, will walk us through the tools, best practices and pitfalls to avoid when setting up your own Selenium mobile grid.


You’ll want to listen up, because Justin works on the popular and cool app Wunderlist -- a simple task management app that can be used across loads of devices -- so he knows how to get mobile automation done.

Direct download: ttJustinIsonMobileGrid119.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:53am EDT

Feeling hungry? Have you ever binged on tacos? Do you remember how the first one tasted and thought it couldn’t get much better? But by the time you got to your third and fourth you may have started to tire of the tacos. (You’ll have to listen to this show to find out how this analogy translates to testing!) In this episode, Gregory Schmidt serves up some testing tamales in the form of optimum marginal utility as applied to test value that will help you take your testing “YUM” factor all the way to 100.

Direct download: ttGregorySchmidtTacoTesting118.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:40am EDT

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