How to hack your APIs

Are you doing all you can to make sure your APIs are secure? If you haven’t started security testing yet, now is the time - by 2020 there are estimates that there will be over 50 billion objects connected to the Internet. Most of these objects will be using APIs.

Not sure where to start — Troy Hunt author of the Pluralsight course Hack Your API First shares with us all you need to know about the basics of API security testing and the tool and technique you will need to quickly get started. Troy’s motto is hack yourself before you get hacked!

Rosie Sherry, the founder of multiple testing communities, takes a rare step into the limelight as she shares her years of wisdom on the philosophy of testing, her thoughts on women in tech and life in general, as well as how to build vibrant testing communities like the Software Testing Club. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone who is involved in, or wants to learn more about, software testing and living life on your own terms.

Removing Test from Test Automation

Are you harnessing the full power of test automation? There are many instances in which automation can assist you by saving time in ways you may not even be aware of. Greg shares five underutilized areas where automation can help us. Get the most out of your automation efforts with Greg's tips.

The episode with help you hidden opportunities to unleash your automation awesomeness!

The Top Five Non-Selenium Test Tools You Need to Know About

Believe it or not, there are test automation tools other then Selenium. If you need to automate something that’s not a browser application, these tools can help.

The top five tools (in no particular order) are:

1. Python
2. White Framework
3. Rest-Assured
4. Sikuli
5. Thucydides

The Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

In this episode you’re going to be served up some tasty Selenium tips by Unmesh Gundecha, author of the Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook. Unmesh will share with us a host of recipes for test automation success that will leave you saying “that was m’m! m’m! good automation awesomeness.”

Danielle is a QA engineer with a passion for fashion and technology. She works at ASOS, one of the largest global online fashion retailers in the world. She shares her testing secrets with us, and tells us what’s it like to be a female engineer in a male-dominated field.

Her insight should inspire any young (or not so young) girls who are thinking about starting a career in technology, and encourage anyone listening that women can rock testing just as well as any dude.

Are you moving from waterfall to AGILE? Are you doing AGILE wrong? Want to save time creating your test plans? In this episode Lance shares with us how we can create effective one-page test plans that fit into AGILE.

In this episode we talk performance testing using LoadUI with SmartBear’s Paul Bruce. Paul goes over not just performance testing using loadUI, but also shares his expert insight into performance testing along with some awesome performance testing best practices.

How to create clean test code

As test engineers, how often have we proclaimed that test automation code is real code-- and should be treated like any other development project?

I say it all the time.

Since test automation code is development code, it should adhere to the same standards --code reviews and the like–just like any other development effort.

Cory House, author of the Pluralsight course Clean Code: Writing Code for Humans, shares with us his top tips for creating readable, easy to maintain test automation code.

Mike is a SoapUI technical engineer at SmartBear, the makers of some cool test and performance tools like SoapUI, test complete, LoadUI pro and a bunch more. Mike is known for developing and delivering highly informative SoapUI Pro demonstrations that focus on the functionality most important to SoapUI test engineers like functional, data driven, or security testing, mock web services, reporting, etc. He shares his passion for API testing using SoapUI in this must- listen episode.