Testers' Island Discs Ep44 - Viv Richards

On this month’s podcast, we’re delighted to be joined by the renowned (and SEO-friendly) Viv Richards, for a chat about visual regression testing which definitely doesn’t take any diversions into discussions about cricket.

If you’re stumped by the concept of visual regression testing, if you’re bowled over by the number of different tools that are available in the marketplace, or if you’re worried about being caught out by focusing on automating the wrong things, there’s a variety of advice on offer within this month’s episode.

Viv’s musical selections include some classic earworms, one of which achieves a significant Testers’ Island milestone, and you can find out which boy-band member manages to have one of his solo tracks selected before any of his band’s offerings.

This episode is sponsored by TestProject, the world's first 100% free test automation platform for Web, Android, iOS and API testing, trusted by over 80,000 users in the testing community. TestProject helps testers and developers ensure quality with speed, by eliminating maintenance & setup hassles and empowering Selenium & Appium with AI self-healing technology. No matter your skillset, TestProject has all the tools you need to ensure a top-notch automation experience, using advanced codeless features or open source SDK compatible with native Selenium APIs. To top it off, you also get to leverage their useful Addons library, out-of-the-box beautiful test reports, seamless integrations into your CI/CD pipelines, worldwide team collaboration options to boost efficiency, and all of this at no cost. Try out TestProject today.

Podcast Links:

Ministry of Testing UI Automation Week

The other Viv Richards, if you don’t know what the intro is all about

Leonardo Giroto - Visual Regression Testing overview

Selenium

Martin Fowler - The Practical Test Pyramid

Happo and Percy (other tools are available!)

Viv’s self-built C# visual testing tool on GitHub

Ministry of Testing: Web API Automation Experience Report - Beth Marshall and Viv Richards

The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Testers podcast series

GitLab - Embracing Asynchronous Communication

Postman

Leanpub - Around the World with 80 Software Testers

Viv on Twitter: @11vlr

Regular Links:

Listen to and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud

Sign up to be a guest on the show

Testers' Island Discs playlist on Spotify

Testers' Island Discs reading list on Goodreads

Follow us on Twitter