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Automation ExplanationThe Scariest Automation Stories — With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are celebrating Halloween with the audience by sharing the scariest automation stories. Key Takeaways Dealing with the organization's expectations about the developers’ role Some organizations expect the development Team to test the changes and provide feedback before the changes move forward to production, But it is not the best practice for developers to test thei...
2022-10-2633 minAutomation ExplanationAPI Testing: Pros and Cons — With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are exploring the topic of API testing, they are talking about its meaning and purpose, as well as about the benefits and challenges of using API Testing. Key Takeaways What is API testing? API stands for Application Programming Interfaces; there is a collection of functions and procedures which allows communication with applications or libraries an...
2022-09-2146 minAutomation ExplanationUsing and Managing Automation Like a Boss — With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are accompanied by John Gravitte to today's episode, John is the former Senior Director of Validation and current Market Unit Technology Head at Agile Thought. Key Takeaways If there is one myth about automation as it relates to quality: What would it be? Quality is not just executing test cases, it is a Team ac...
2022-08-2352 minAutomation ExplanationThe Big Debate: Commercial vs. Open-Source Automation Tools — With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are talking about the big debate: commercial vs. open-source automation tools. Antwan and Greg explore every aspect of the important decision regarding choosing an automation tool. Listen to this episode to know the pros and cons of both open-source and commercial automation tools, and remember, automation is an art and it is never obvious which is the right tool f...
2022-08-2346 minAutomation ExplanationMy Name Is Not Merlin: Myths of the QE/SDET/Test Automation Engineer/Magician — With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick, are exploring the myths in regard to the role of Test Automation Engineers. Nowadays, there is more collaboration than ever before in the automation arena and most is happening remotely; the challenge is to provide a high-quality customer experience. People are investing a lot in automation, but it is very unlikely that they are actually succeeding in it, resulting i...
2022-08-231h 01Automation ExplanationWho Is Responsible for Quality? — With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are discussing Quality and who is responsible for it. They start by addressing the origins of Quality Assurance and dive deep into the differences between Quality Assurance and Quality Control. Antwan and Greg share valuable analogies for a better grasp of the meaning and extent of Quality Assurance as well as they speak of the most common mistakes in t...
2022-06-2958 minAutomation ExplanationThe Value of Automation Strategy: “If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail.” — With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to another episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are talking about the crucial value of Automation Strategy; they dive deep into its history and origins, as well as explain its role in regard to Testing and the significance of the whole Development Team to be included in the process. Antwan and Greg also discuss the types of Testing approaches that are used to leverage Automation and the p...
2022-06-1547 minAutomation ExplanationMommy, Daddy: Where Do Quality Engineers Come From? - With Antwan Maddox and Greg BurdickWelcome to the inaugural episode of Automation Explanation, an Agile Thought Podcast, where you will learn about quality through automated testing and its place in modern software development. This week, your hosts, Antwan Maddox and Greg Burdick are starting this series of shows to discuss some of the challenges and areas of improvement related to quality engineering. Today, they are diving deep into the history and role of Quality Engineers, their place in Development Teams, and how they fit into Agile. Key Takeaways A brief history of test automation. Test automation has exi...
2022-05-2448 min