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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.

Have you ever wondered if it was possible to run Selenium Scripts in LoadRunner?  LoadRunner 12 now has the ability to execute Selenium scripts in a performance scenario. Learn how in my latest TestTalks episode. I go over step-by-step the information you need to get started.

  Want to know how to migrate from QTP to Selenium? Tarun talks about his experience migrating large QTP projects to Selenium. Learn what to do to successfully move your projects from QTP to Selenium. Also Tarun talks about many topics that will help you know what to do when choosing between QTP VS. Selenium.  

In this episode Joe answers the top five email questions he gets asked at joecolantonio.com:1.    Can I use selenium to test rest services?2.    How should I go about learning Selenium. Are there any books / video training that you recommend3.    Can you send me the latest HP QTP/UFT/LoadRunner patches?4.    What test tool/technology should I learn?5.What’s better QTP or Selenium?

Do you want to make sure you're creating a test automation framework that will endure long after you've moved on to a new project. Sick of your test tools or your framework becoming shelf-ware? Are you new to test automation and not sure where to start? No worries -- Greg shares with us his unique insight on not only how to create automation tests, but also lays out a plan that will make a huge difference in the adoption and maintainability of your test efforts.

Are you using jBehave or EasyB to create your Behavior Driven Development tests and wish there was an easier way to write and get better reporting functionality? Thucydides is a tool deigned to make writing automated acceptance and regression tests easier. Thucydides integrates seamlessly with jBheave and Selenium WebDriver. Listen to hear more about this must have BDD tool.  

Want to know what the top six automation best practices are? Joe shares with you his top killers of automation performance and reliability.

Want to know the top new features found in HP's UFT, LoadRunner and ALM 12? Here’s a quick look at the top new features I think you’re going to love!

Are you an evil tester? Learn from the original Evil Tester himself -- Alan Richardson. Alan shares with us his unique insight on not only how to create automation frameworks, but also how to incorporate modeling principles into development scripts as well as using other must- know testing concepts.  

  What does it take to create an industrial strength Selenium test automation framework? Join us as John Sonmez shares the tips and tricks he has learned over the years on how to create robust, easy- to-maintain test automation frameworks.   John also talks about productivity tips and why it’s so important for test engineers to market themselves because one can only go so far with skills alone.

Dave Haeffner author of the new book The Selenium Guidebook shares his tips and tricks on how to use Selenium, successfully. Learn how to craft automated acceptance tests that you and your team can trust.

What do Steampunk and Harry Potter have to do with Behavior Driven Development (BDD)? Join us as Lance enlightens us about BDD.