Are you or your team struggling with automation testing? Do you have a hard time getting automation buy-in from your teams? In this episode, you’ll get a sneak peek of what you’ll discover at the 2018 Automation Guild Online Conference and Community. Listen in and find out how you and your team can accelerate your test automation efforts in 2018. Register for Automation Guild now: https://automationguild.com

Are you looking to expand your tester’s toolbox with automation but don’t know where to start? Are you unsure what the benefits of automation are, or whether it’s even worth it? In this episode, Corina Pip will share tips, tools, and libraries you can use to help you get up running with automation. Sound boring? No way! Corina shows how much fun test automation can actually be.

Everywhere you look today, folks are talking about Artificial Intelligence. Will AI be the next big thing in automation testing? In http://www.testtalks.com/182this episode we’ll get a sneak peak into a brand new, AI-based test tool, Mabl, which was founded by a bunch of ex-Google employees. Today we’ll be test talking with Mabl co-founder Dan Belcher as he shares his views on AI/machine learning-based automation and gives a sneak peek at some AI-based features found in the soon-to-be-released AI test tool.

We're still early in VR, and there's not a lot of competition. Just like in the early days of mobile, it's a goldmine ready for you to jump into. But figuring out how to get started with testing and developing VR is definitely the hardest part. In this episode, Jason Weimann, author of the Virtual Reality Developer course will discuss some of his experience in testing and developing VR games. Discover what you need to know to get started learning the skills to help you develop and test VR games.

Whether you’re just getting started with BDD using Cucumber--or have been using it for years--you’re in for a treat. In this, episode we’ll be test talking with the creator of Cucumber, Aslak Hellesøy, about his thoughts and reflections on ten years of Cucumber. Listen up and discover how and why Aslak created Cucumber, as well as ways to improve your BDD efforts. Prepare to break the chains of BDD misconceptions and move into the light of Cucumber awesomeness.

There are a lot of Selenium WebDriver-based testing frameworks out there. A relatively new one is Webdriver.io. In this episode, we’ll be Test Talking about it with Kevin Lamping, author of the course Learn WebDriver.io. Kevin shares some of the pros and cons of using WebDriver.io as well as things to keep in mind when creating a WebDriver.io-based framework. So listen up and discover why WebDriver.io may be the perfect automation tool for you and your team.

When I look back at my career in test automation, there are three distinct periods, or “waves” that come to mind. In this episode, you'll discover eight newer “AI”-based tools that I think they will take us to the next stage of test automation–the Third Wave. Is AI/Machine learning test automation all hype? Listen and find out.

Are you or your developers struggling with test automation? Is Selenium not working for you? In this episode, we'll be test talking with the founder and VP of engineering at Cypress.io. Cypress.io is a developer-focused tool that helps other developers write tests for the web. It was designed to avoid some of the bad practices Brian has seen in the past when writing test automation and was developed with the philosophy of writing good tests in mind.

In this episode, we’ll be test talking with dark arts wizard Paul Grossman. Paul will share his six-step process for decomposing tests that can translate into an automation framework. So get ready to discover how to create a reusable, maintainable BPT automation framework and how to avoid some classic test automation mistakes.

In this episode, we’ll be test talking with Rhian Lewis about Blockchain application testing. I assume that you’ve been hearing a lot about Blockchain and Bitcoin (I know I have), but how many of us have actually begun to roll up our sleeves and tried to determine what we need to do to get started testing these types of applications? Rhian is a trailblazer in this space and shares what you need to know about Blockchain applications, as well as testing advice on how best to approach this technology.

What if there was a way to make your tests more reliable with less manual maintenance involved on your part? Something like a record and playback solution with built-in machine learning that creates self-improving, stable test runs? Sound like science fiction? Well, listen up and discover the second wave of AI-powered test automation with the creator of TestIm.io Oren Rubin. Oren shares his 20 years of experience in creating innovative solutions like his latest creation, Testim. In this episode, you’ll discover how Oren believes machine learning can help speed up the authoring, execution, and maintenance of your automated tests.

In this episode, Danny McKeown of Paychex test talks about how his small tools group supports nearly one hundred Agile teams in their automation efforts. Danny will share how his team is able to lead other teams to implement and succeed with their automation testing. You’ll also discover how Paychex assesses progress with their maturity model.

Do you struggle to decide when to use a browser emulation (in case of hybrid apps), mobile simulators/emulators and real devices? In this episode, Kwo Ding will review his mobile test pyramid approach and discuss best practices about when to use what. Kwo will also reveal his tips for how to best structure and execute mobile test and more!

In this episode, we’ll be Test Talking with Greg Sypolt about Automation, CI and DevOps. You’ll discover how to transform your new or existing automated tests in order to speed up development and reduce maintenance impact. Greg will also share some ways in which his team is working towards achieving Continuous Integration (CI) and DevOps excellence through their test automation efforts.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Are you or your team struggling with performance testing or are you afraid to release your application the wild because you simply don't know how it's going to perform under load? In this episode, you’ll discover how PerfGuild can help you.

PerfGuild is the first ever 100% online conference dedicated solely to performance testing.

We're bringing together 15 plus of some of the best experts in the world when it comes to performance testing. Listen up to hear why performance testing is more important now than ever for your software development projects.

In this episode, Paul Grizzaffi explains responsible ways to approach automation, as well as some of the knowledge we need in order to be responsible. He also shares insights into automation responsibility from his own career, including how to use proper judgment with all our testing efforts. So listen up and learn how to avoid test automation forays into irresponsibility.

After attending a test conference do you sometimes wish a presentation or workshop could have been better? If you’re like Greg the answer is yes. In this episode Greg shares his thoughts on his latest experience at STAREAST as well as some key takeaways and related thoughts he found himself pondering about automation after his experience. ring about automation after his experience.

Today we’ll to be test talking with Maciek Konkolowicz about automated delivery channels. In this episode you’ll discover what automated delivery channel actually is, as well as what bottlenecks to avoid, why refactoring is not always the right choice, how to get a quicker feedback loop, how to set up consistent environments and much, much more. Listen up and discover how to take your automated test execution to the next level.

In this episode Andreas Grabner will discuss how to get started monitoring the performance of your application using tools like Dynatrace’s free Appmon. Discover some key performance indicators you need to know when analyzing your application performance logs. Andy will also share some of the common performance patterns he has seen after helping hundreds of folks analyze their performance issues.

Are you looking for an automation alternative to open source that’s easy to work with for non-developers? Are you also looking for a solution that is easy to design and scale? If so, TestArchitect by LogiGear might be the perfect fit for your team. And after you hear the big announcement near the end of this episode, you’ll be surprised at just how easy it is to get started. Check it out and discover how TestArchitect can help everyone on your team get started with test automation.

In this episode we’ll test talk with Eran Kinsbruner, author of the brand new book The Digital Quality Handbook – a guide for achieving continuous quality in a DevOps reality. As mobile and web technologies continue to expand in almost all industries, it’s critical to understand how to take existing practices for mobile and web apps to the next level. So listen up and discover how to successfully implement digital transformation for your company in an ever-changing technical landscape.

In this episode we’ll test talk with Edaqa Mortoray, creator of the Leaf programming language. Edaqa currently works at Fuse, where he’s in charge of layout and animation and helps drive much of the firm’s testing efforts. He’ll cover testing from a developer’s perspective as well as topics as far and wide as “Will the automator be replaced by the automated?” You don’t want to miss it!

Are you still unsure about whether automation is really software development? In this episode Andrew Krug, founder of LazyCoder.io, shares some test automation techniques as well as some reasons why you should considers yourself a developer. Andrew asserts that if the main program you’re leaving open on your computer all day is an IDE, you're a developer. Still not convinced? Listen up and discover how to take your automation developer skills using Fluent Testing Techniques to a higher level. Check it out!

In this episode you’ll discover how to say goodbye to traditional, script-based frameworks as we Test Talk with Jeff Fillegar, a DevOps and QA consultant for Tricentis. Jeff was an automation engineer long before he began working for software tool vendors like HPE and Tricentis, so he really knows his stuff. And with his experience as an automation engineer, he knows some solutions vendors can offer to truly benefit testers in the real world.

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.

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.

Happy Easter - No Episode This Week. See you all next week.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

Have you even wondered how you could bring agile acceptance test driven development to the front of your development cycle?  Sure ATDD and BDD sound great, but how is it really implemented in the real world? In this episode Jeanine Rust a software architect-developer in test shares with us how to bring acceptance testing into our organizations from the ground up.  So listen up and hear how Jeanine put test into Dev-Test-Ops 

Load testing is an important part of the performance engineering process. However, the industry is changing and load testing should adjust to these changes. A stereotypical, last-moment performance check is not enough anymore. In this episode Alexander Podelko will share with us his views on how to align performance testing to these new industry trends. Listen up and discover how performance testing can still add value in an Agile world.

Do you have a hard time of getting historical data for your test runs? Do you have flaky test, but not sure which test are consistently flaky? In this episode Hugh McCamphill a Principle Software Engineer in Test with Liberty IT in Belfast shares with us how you can instrument your test result information to provide actionable data, paving the way for more robust, reliable and timely test results. Listen now to discover how you can move away from the ‘re-run’ culture and better support your continuous integration goals of having quick, reliable, deterministic tests.

We had an interesting session this year at the Automation Guild Conference with John Ferguson Smart, creator of the Serenity framework on the Screenplay Pattern. It created a lot of interest and conversation among Guild attendees and speakers alike; so much so that someone in the group recommended that I create a separate podcast dedicated to the topic … so here it is!

Is API testing at the top of your list of things to do this year? Not sure where to start? Or are you currently testing APIs but want to know more about mocking or service virtualization? In this episode Bas Dijkstra, founder of the blog ontestautomation and author of the book Service Virtualization: Implementation, Practices, and Trends for On-Demand Test Environments, shares with us some tips, tools and best practices around API testing.

One of the biggest challenges I see many automation engineers experiencing in 2017 is DevOps – and treating automation tests and infrastructure like code.

A few of those technologies, like Jenkins, Docker and Vagrant are critical technologies you should know in order to excel in your career in the coming year. In this episode we’ll be speaking with Wes Higbee author of multiple Pluralsight courses including Getting Started with Jenkins 2, Docker on Windows and Intro to Vagrant.

So if you want to expand your automation efforts beyond functional testing in 2017, you don’t want to miss this episode.

Are you looking for an automation tool that allow your testers and developers to create automated tests fast? In this episode we’ll Test Talk with the creator of Sahi, Narayan Raman. Discover why Sahi open-source and pro might be the right tool for your team.

Happy New Year! Start your New Year’s test automation efforts off right by doing this one thing. Check it out!