TestGuild Automation Podcast

Are you ready for the new decade of automated pipelines? Automating functional testing is critical for today's software development teams, but it's just a small piece of what you'll need for modern CI/CD DevOps practices. Join over 37 automation experts at the 5th Annual Automation Guild to get up to speed on the latest and greatest in full-stack pipeline automation testing. Don't miss out! Only two weeks left to register for Automation Guild.

Automation is not just functional automation! In this episode, Parasar Saha, an enterprise automation architect, will share some ways to reduce repetitive and error-prone tasks at the enterprise level. Discover how to free up time and resources to help transform your team. Listen up to learn tips, tricks, and best practices for successful Digital Transformation.

Are you curious to learn more about automation using TestCafe? In this episode, Dmytro Shpakovskyi, author of Modern Web Testing with TestCafe, will share insights from his new book. Discover automation testing strategies for end-to-end web testing using TestCafe and JavaScript. Listen up!

Don't let your testing efforts fall behind — it's time to prepare for the New Year. In this episode, I'll share my insights about upcoming test automation trends gleaned from my popular Test Guild podcasts interviews, as well as my yearly Automation Guild survey. Discover the skills, best practices, and frameworks you need to know to stay employable in a post-COVID-19 changing dev/test world in 2021. Don't miss it!

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Automated Pipelines are critical for testers to know. In this episode, frequent guest Greg Paskal, author of Test Automation in the Real World, will share an example of how his team has achieved automated pipelines using Jenkins and Go. Discover the benefits of this approach, lessons learned, and how you can apply his tips to your pipeline implementations. Don't miss it!

Also, don't forget to time is running out on getting the sale price for the 5th annual Automation Guild online conference Feb 8-12. Register now: https://guildconferences.com/ag-2021/

It's almost 2021. Are you still not doing API Automation? Did you know that API performance testing is also critical for delivering reliable APIs to your customers? In this episode, Patrick Poulin, CEO of API Fortress, will explain how to unify your functional and nonfunctional API testing, allowing you to use existing functional tests as load tests. Listen up to learn ways you can gain a holistic understanding of your API performance and how to stress test endpoints and full API flows.

Want a way to accelerate your test coverage and eliminate test maintenance? In this episode, Paul Grossman, an SDET at Utopia solutions, and Artem Golubev, Co-founder at testRigor, share a tool that allows you to easily create automation using a behavior-driven plain English approach to writing tests. Learn the benefits of this approach and hear real-world implementation stories of how it has helped others with their test automation.

How's your automated API and E2E monitoring strategy? In this episode, Tim Nolet and Hannes Lenke, co-founders of Checkly, will share why active monitoring for modern development/DevOps is essential, how Puppeteer and Playwright fit. And that monitoring production is great, but catching bugs before they hit production is even better. Discover all the benefits of leveraging your existing automation tests for synthetic monitoring in your pre-production and production environments. Listen up!

Do you want to find your dream job and become a successful tester? In this episode, Raj Subrameyer, author of the new book Skyrocket Your Career shares his advice on career advancement for testers. Discover the skills you need to achieve your goals in the new year and set yourself miles apart from your competition.

As we head into the holiday season, the topic of front-end performance testing will become even more critical. In this episode, you'll learn ways to start optimizing your application front end to give your users a quicker experience. Discover tools and techniques to get your team involved in your front-end testing efforts earlier in your SDLC.