TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast

Want to learn more about effective performance engineering? In this episode, Scott will break down each phase of a successful performance engineering lifecycle. Discover how to start moving from just a performance tester to thinking like an engineer and getting involved earlier in the lifecycle. Scott will also discuss what the digital experience means from a performance tester's perspective. Listen up!

How do you genuinely integrate your performance testing efforts into your DevOps lifecycle? In this episode, Roman Ferstl will share his experience with creating automated quality gates in performance testing. Discover how to automate time-consuming and repetitive performance engineering tasks. Listen up to find out which tools and techniques to use to get started on your performance testing CI/CD efforts.

Want to know how to start testing mobile performance earlier in the dev cycle? In this episode, Sofía Palamarchuk, co-founder and CEO of Apptim, will share her proven mobile performance method. Discover how mobile performance is different than web performance testing, the three components of mobile app performance testing, user experience testing, and more. Listen up!

Your website speed has a critical impact on how visitors engage with your site. Site speed is vital as we get into the holiday season. But making a site fast and, more importantly, maintaining that speed isn't always easy. In this episode, Andy Davies, a Web Performance Consultant, will explore some of the critical aspects of site speed, why they matter, and how you can measure them. You'll also hear how you can automate your performance testing and incorporate it into your software lifecycle.

Performance testing involves more than just a performance test tool. In this episode, Harinder Seera shares what other critical activities or required in performance engineering. Discover Hirander’s journey into the world of performance testing and what he did to learn to become a real performance tester.

Load testing and performance monitoring used to be challenging and bothersome. Not any more!  In this episode, Simon Aronsson, a developer advocate at k6, shares his vision for a code-first approach to performance using open source technologies. Discover how to incorporate load testing into your everyday test automation, how to avoid common pitfalls while scripting load tests, how to visualize your performance testing data, and more. Listen up.

The engineering teams of today have to deal with microservices generating volumes of real-time data transactions. In this episode, Vikas Kumar will share some of his real-world experience related to the performance testing of gRPC services to ensure high-performance communication between microservices. Discover how QA can start performance testing their gRPC services using Gatling, and much more. Listen up!

Have you ever wished there was an easy way to leverage your BDD tests as a performance test? In this episode, Andrei Alexandr Danilov talks all about his open-source solution, Pretzel. Pretzel is a tool that helps you to reuse existing Functional Tests in popular frameworks like RestAssured to do Load and Performance Tests with Java. So listen up and discover how to reuse your existing Java functional tests to build powerful Load & Performance scripts.

API adoption is one of the top trends we’ll be seeing as we speed towards the digital era. Every website, mobile app, and cloud-based solution depend on APIs for connectivity. In this episode, Phil Voulgaris and Keshav Vasudevan from SmartBear will break down their recent State of API Report 2020. Discover how organizations are bringing APIs to market in 2020, what tools they are using, how they view specific trends, and where they see the market going. Listen up!

How do you design an automation framework for load testing? In this episode, Stijn Schepers will explain how to create such a framework and integrate it into your CI/CD pipeline. Discover what the Robotic Analytical Framework is all about, smart analytics, shift-right performance testing, and much more. Listen up!