Everyone is always looking at the latest, shiny testing tools that only support Web technologies, but what about automating mainframe apps? Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer at IBM, explains why mainframes still matter and how they fit into modern practices like DevOps. Listen up and discover tools and techniques to help you with your mainframe testing practices.

Have you ever wished there was an easier way to performance test your application without worrying about how to automate it from the protocol layer? If so, you'll want to listen in to today's episode with the founder of Flood.io, Tim Koopmans. Tim will share why he thinks browser-level performance testing using Element can help with your performance testing efforts.

In this episode discover what it takes to become an automation engineer in a startup with Chris Kenst. Chris also shares tips on how to improve your automation skills leveraging education and conferences. You'll also discover an awesome resource to make sure you never miss another can't miss testing event.

Has the software you've tested ever been hacked? How do you know? I just read an article on TechCrunch that hackers went undetected in Citrix internal network for six months! Scary stuff. So in this episode, we'll take a sneak peek at some of the sessions at SecureGuild an online conference dedicated to security testing taking place May 20-21. Listen up and discover ways to avoid security exploits like the Citrix hack.

DevOps and Agility are only successful if your team continues to practice them every day, every hour, every minute. But how do you achieve this type of whole-team approach? In this episode, Gurushyam Mony shares some of his top practices for helping companies with their digital transformations and explains that people are as vital an aspect of this as tools are. So listen up and discover some real-world tips on how to make your people the key to your company's digital transformation success story.

Today we'll be test talking with security testing expert Tanya Janca about application security and more. Tanya is passionate about application security and evangelizing software security and will share why you should be, too. Listen up to hear how Tanya can make even a topic like security fun.

Two of the hottest new topics in our industry are continuous testing and AI/machine learning. Today we'll be test talking with Guljeet Nagpaul about next generation Agile automation. We'll cover codeless test automation, improving Agile quality management and more. Guljeet worked for Mercury as head of their ALM practices back in the day, so he knows his stuff. Discover what has changed since that time, and what you need to know in today's rapidly changing automation testing landscape.

Have you ever wondered what is programming really is, at a deeper level than the obvious answer? That's what we'll be test talking about today with Edaqa Mortoray, author of the new book What is programming? A Harmony of People, Code that runs the world, and the Individual behind the Keyboard. If you'll remember from a previous TestTalks episode, Edaqa is the inventor of the Leaf programming language, so he knows a thing or two about programming. Don't miss it

One of the most common challenges for quality engineers is making the mental shift from merely pursuing pass or fail test results to understanding the characteristics and trends of tests. That's what we'll be test talking about today with Greg Paskal. Greg will share how to discover the personality of your application using dashboards created with ELK Stack. Listen up to discover how to create tests that are accurate and actionable.

Do you want to build more resilient software systems? Do you like to break things on purpose? If so, this episode is for you. We'll be Test Talking about Chaos Engineering with Tammy Butow, a principal site reliability engineer at Gremlin. Tammy will explain how to test the ways in which your system responds to stress so you can identify and fix failures before they impact your customers—saving you and your company the embarrassment of software downtime, bad publicity and lost revenue. Listen up!