Testtalks | Automation Awesomeness | Helping You Succeed With Test Automation

Do you have test automation in place, but it's continually breaking and causing endless headaches? In this episode, Kevin Lamping, author of the new book The Web App Testing Guidebook, shares the reasons he created this resource and how it can help you by providing examples of UI testing of real-world websites using WebdriverIO. Discover how this guide will teach you everything you need to know to get off the ground with UI testing. Listen up.

Are you in the market for a new test tool? Or are you frustrated with your current one and want a change? In this episode, Darrel Farris a Solutions Architect at mabl, shares what you should look for when choosing the right tool for your team. Discover how to decide how you want your tests to look and build your list of “requirements” and much, much, more. Listen up!

Want to know the current trends in open source automation, performance, and BDD testing? In this episode, Kevin Dunne, GM of TestProject, Matthias Rapp, GM of SpecFlow, and Ivan Vanderbyl, Head of Product at Flood, share the results from Tricentis’ first-ever State of Open Source Testing Survey. Discover the latest trends and developments across the industry gleaned from over 2,000 responses. Listen up to learn the latest in the Behavior Driven Development, Functional Testing, and Load Testing domains.  Check it out!

Software teams are shipping software faster than ever before. On top of this, web apps are becoming increasingly sophisticated and need to run against multiple devices.  In this episode, Arjun Attam, a Program Manager on Playwright at Microsoft, shares a new E2E framework called Playwright. Discover how it differs from Puppeteer as well as how it can help you create more reliable cross-browser automation tests that are fast, reliable, and capable.

Do you use Selenium, but have Cypress envy? What if you could have the same “Cypress” experience using Selenium WebDriver? In this episode Carlos Kidman, creator of Pylenium, will share his wrapper around the Selenium WebDriver Python API, which provides a more Pythonic interface. If you’re new to automation and/or are looking for an easier way to create automation tests, listen up!

Do you know that there is another design pattern you can follow besides page objects that make your test more readable and maintainable? In this episode, Jan Molak, creator of  Serenity/JS, shares his thoughts on test automation using the Screenplay pattern. Discover how Serenity/JS and the Screenplay Pattern can help you break the chains of UI-only automation and write high-quality acceptance tests interacting with any interface of your system.

Everyone is looking for ways to automate as many things as possible — not just tests. To achieve this goal, one tool more folks are turning to is RPA. In this episode, Sune Engsig, a Senior Product Evangelist at LEAPWORK, shares automation insights and productivity tips for RPA. Discover what is RPA, when it should be used, and some tips to get started. Listen up.

Are you an Appium automation engineer? Or do you need to automate mobile applications? In this episode, the main leader and contributor at Appium, Jonathan Lipps, will share his vision, technical possibilities, and changes you need to know about for Appium 2.0. Jonathan will also share his involvement with a new must-know resource for Appium testers—HeadSpin University. You don’t want to miss this episode!

Is your team or organization trying to make the transformation from manual testing to continuous testing? In this episode, Jorge Luis Castro Toribio will share his experience and some tips to do just that. Listen in to discover the true story of how a group of ninja Agile testers changed their way of delivering value. Jorge will share the main aspects of their strategy for this new way of delivering software. Don’t miss it!

Testing in video games has been relatively stagnant for over 30 years, but that’s about to change. Find out how in this episode with Shane Evans, a co-founder of GameDriver. GameDriver is a framework for automating in-engine tests, giving developers and testers complete control over game actions during replay in either development or standalone builds. Listen in to learn how early adopters of GameDriver have been able to significantly reduce their time spent on manual testing. Check it out!

I often get requests for more information on automation using C#. In this episode, we’ll speak with Karthik K.K., founder of ExecuteAutomation. He’ll share some of his thoughts on why C# might be the perfect language for your next automation testing project. Listen and learn from one of the most prolific Udemy Automation-testing course creators around. Don’t miss it!

Do you love python? Want to use a python based automation framework for your entire web UI testing needs? In this episode, we speak with Michael Mintz creator of SeleniumBase, all about his Python automation framework. Discover all the features of Seleniumbase that can help you with your selenium, UI testing, visual validation needs & more. Listen up.

We all know that excellent testing practices will help maximize your project quality and delivery speed. In this episode, Vladimir Khorikov, author of Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, shares his best practices for designing and writing unit tests. Even if you’re a tester and not a developer, you’ll need to listen in to know what to look out for when working with your scrum team. Don’t miss it!

Would you like to save 20-30% of the time it takes to create automation tests? Feeling frustrated while writing unique locators? In this episode, Sanjay Kumar, creator of ChroPath, will share how to do this and more. Discover how you can use ChroPath to not only generate unique locators for your tests but also how to leverage it as a complete script-writing platform. Don’t miss it!

Even if you test your microservices in isolation, it’s challenging—and potentially dangerous—to test a live microservices system that’s changing and growing. In this episode Brandon Byars, author of Testing Microservices with Mountebank, shares how service virtualization can help imitate the components of a distributed microservices application. Discover tips on how this approach can take your microservices testing efforts to the next level.

Automated testing best practices are critical if you want to succeed with test automation! Just as important is knowing what works is what doesn’t work as well. In this episode, Nikolay Advolodkin, founder of Ultimate QA and a solution architect at SauceLabs will share his top automation best practices and things to avoid (hint: BDD). Discover some red flags to look for in your team’s automation efforts. Listen up!

In this episode, discover what the Triangle Software Quality Association (TSQA) is and why you need to join it. Susan Marie and Jenny Bramble will share their experience with organizing a conference, and preview some of their top sessions for this year’s event. If you dig testing communities, you don’t want to miss this episode. Listen up!

In this episode, discover an end-to-end solution that requires low code with the ability to run your test on an infinite amount of browsers, OS, and real device combinations. Kevin Dunne, an SVP of Strategic Initiatives at TestProject, and Kristian Meier, Technical Director of Business Development at SauceLabs, will share their take on this exciting new initiative. Don’t miss it!

Are you or your team struggling with automation testing? Do you have a hard time getting automation buy-in from your teams? In this episode, you’ll get a sneak peek of what you’ll discover at the 2020 Automation Guild Online Conference and Community. Listen in and find out how you and your team can accelerate your test automation efforts in 2020. Register for Automation Guild now: http://automationguild.com

Many automation engineers spend most of their time worrying about flaky tests, reducing runtime, etc. But what about trying to optimize where and how they run their automation tests? In this episode, Adam Goucher will share his view on why automation infrastructure is so crucial to any automation effort. Listen up and discover tips on how to bring Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Operational Excellence to your automation infrastructure.