Quality Sense Podcast

In this episode I interviewed Michael Bolton, one of my personal heroes in testing, someone who makes you think outside the box, and is known for stirring up great debate!

In this long interview, I just asked a couple of simple questions and Michael shared with us lot of insights about software testing, automation, algorithms, AI, etc, and most importantly, about how he entered a career in software testing (which by the way, I haven't heard about it before).

Also, we commented about his trip to Uruguay when he attended TestingUY as a keynote speaker.

For a full transcript, check out our blog post: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/quality-sense-podcast-michael-bolton/

To learn more about Michael as well as his and James Bach's Rapid Software Testing Courses and methodology, visit: https://www.developsense.com/index.html

For this episode, I interviewed my friend, Sofia Palamarchuk, CEO and co-founder of Apptim, a tool that helps you to test and analyze mobile app performance(www.apptim.com). She is also a Director and Board member of my company, Abstracta (www.abstracta.us).

Highlights of this interview:

- Sofi told us about her journey from tester to CEO, Board Member and co-founder

- We discussed what affects the performance of a mobile app (server side, network and client side)

- Challenges in native mobile apps in Android and iOS to monitor and gather information to optimize the performance

- Typical types of issues in native apps(like memory leaks, rendering time, excessive CPU and battery usage)

- Observability for mobile apps

- And at the end, she suggested a very interesting book not related to testing at all!!

Hope you enjoy the talk! If you want to read a transcript, we will publish it soon here www.abstracta.us/blog

You can try Apptim for free here: www.apptim.com

For this episode, I interviewed Oren Rubin, the CEO and founder of Testim (https://www.testim.io/, a leading innovative product in the Web test automation domain. He has over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry building products for developers.

Highlights of this second part of the interview:

- We discussed about how AI can help test automation

- Best practices applied to test automation

- What Oren hates and loves about Cucumber

- Scriptless testing tools vs Visual Editors (is that the same?)

- Also, Oren told us about how we got into testing

- And at the end, he suggested a very interesting book not related to testing at all.

Hope you enjoy the talk! If you want to read a transcript as you listen, check it out here: https://bit.ly/2NEGGaI

For this episode, I interviewed Oren Rubin, the CEO and founder of Testim (https://www.testim.io/, a leading innovative product in the Web test automation domain. He has over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry building products for developers.

Highlights of this first part of the interview:

- We shared the funny story of how we met (thanks Angie Jones!)

- We discuss the pesky challenge of test automation: dealing with flaky tests

- Oren also talked about many test automation tools, highlighting the main differences between them including Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer, and so on.

Hope you enjoy the talk! If you want to read a transcript as you listen, check it out here: https://bit.ly/2NEGGaI

In this episode I interviewed Lisa Crispin, one of "las madres del agile testing", an expert and great contributor to our field. You can learn more about her here: https://agiletestingfellow.com/. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/30ZPHmA

Highlights:

- We discussed what this new term "Observability" is and how it's related to monitoring, testing and even chaos engineering.

- Lisa talked about the open source project, OpenTelemetry and mentioned different tools that help to implement observability.

- At the end she suggested a book if you want to learn more about Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Observability

Of course, we are going to talk also about how collaboration and pairing is a great way to learn and improve whatever you do!

In this episode I interviewed Eric Proegler, an expert in performance testing and test management as well as the president of the Association for Software Testing(https://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/). You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2YeEgG6

Highlights:

- How certain industry's systems are tested like contact tracing apps for COVID-19 or aircraft software(think the Boeing 737 MAX disaster)

- Software quality certifications: When are they needed and are they really useful?

- Test documentation, context-driven testing, test automation vs manual testing.

- How Eric discovered he'd rather be a software tester than a developer

- A super important skill for testers: learning how to disagree politely

In this episode I interviewed Alon Girmonsky, CEO of UP9 (https://up9.io), the only automated solution to test microservices. He also founded BlazeMeter among other technology-based companies. Nowadays we are collaborating together on the mobile testing platform, Apptim (https://apptim.com), where he is the main advisor.

In this episode, we discussed the challenges in testing systems with microservice architectures, considering tools to help with the testing, automation and observability together.

He told us about UP9 and as usual, he suggested some of his favorite books and told us about some great habits to adopt and others to avoid.

You can also play the episode and access the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2CiMxjC

This is the second part of my interview with Alan Richardson, better known as "Evil Tester." We discussed many topics related to software testing automation.

You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2YPSr3r

In this second half of the interview we covered:

- Testability, automatability and observability

- How to show ROI of automation, learning about selling

- How Alan got started in software testing

- The book he recommends for learning how to ask questions

Side note, I'm thrilled to announce that Quality Sense was included on feedspot's list of top software testing podcasts! Thanks to all of you out there listening! https://blog.feedspot.com/software_testing_podcasts/

This is the first part of my interview with Alan Richardson, better known as "evil tester." We discussed many topics related to software testing automation. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: bit.ly/2YPSr3r

In this first half of the interview we covered:

- Learning test automation by automating games

- Ways to improve your test automation, like using JavaScript and modifying DOM elements

- Thinking tactical vs strategic

- The importance of critical thinking in test automation

- The "Agile way"

- Using bias and skills of different individuals to form the best teams

- API vs GUI test automation

- How to reduce costs and optimize your time

Interview with Paul-Henri Pillet, CEO of Gatling (gatling.io), one of the leading performance testing tools for web applications. First we discussed challenges for performance testers in times of crisis and then, Paul-Henri told us about the the story behind Gatling. He also shared some habits and a book that I think can help you to become a better leader in software testing.

You can play and also access the transcript of the episode here: https://bit.ly/30Y2FRT