Automation Conspiracy Theories and More! TGNS78

How is Google sneaking automation testing into Chrome? And is this going to start a battle between Google and Microsoft? What company recently raised 50 million in Series D round funding? And are you still on the fence with if Generative AI is the Future of Automation Testing? I know in this Automation and DevSecOps news show episode for the week of April 9th. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea and let's do this. This episode of the Test Skill News show is sponsored by the awesome folks at applitools. If you're looking to take your automation project to new heights, applitools and the visual Validation testing are a game changer. I've used it myself in my day to day career and we couldn't do what we were trying to do without visual validation using applitools. But don't just take my word for it, try it for yourself today by creating a free account now by using that special link in the first comment down below. And while you're there, why not like rate and subscribe to get alerted every time I release a new episode. First up, Automation News. So I missed last week's news show for a bunch of different things, mainly because I was at Selenium Conf the week before. I didn't have time to catch up. But at Selenium Conf, a lot of people are telling me how they saw my posts on Generative AI. So if you missed this, I think you definitely want to check it out. So it's still not too late if you're watching this now. This event's happening on April 12th and it's all about generative AI, the future of testing magnify AI, who I saw at Selenium Conf, really cool company is actually going to have an expert panel that's going to discuss the current state of artificial intelligence, the practical uses and limitations of generative AI as well. So you're going to discover things like the AI boom, its role in the software development cycle, the capabilities of generative AI and AI powered visual testing platforms, and why human capabilities are still needed in the quality assurance process. So if you want to explore the possibilities and limitation of AI and you haven't signed up yet for this event, I highly recommend you do. And you can check that out in the first comment down below. So also at Selenium Conf, I got to speak to a lot of people two that really come to mind right now, Michael Mintz and Dimitri for from epom. So Michael Mintz is the creator of Selenium Base and he had his Laptop, he said check this out, what I just noticed. And he brought up a Chrome browser and he started talking about something that I think a lot of people don't know about yet because I was caught off guard as well. So what he did, he said, check this out. So you want to bring up the developer console within Chrome, click on the dropdown and notice there's a new area at least I don't know when this was was added, but there's one called Recorder and in the record. And notice this is interesting, it has a way to record a user journey on your web app, right? Replay the recording to check the flow if it's working and they're using a performance trace or you can export it as a Puppeteer testing script. So I think it's the direct shot at Microsoft. Well, this is what Michael mentioned because obviously Microsoft has Playwright, it's been gaining a lot of steam. I think Google feels left out here. So I think they're going to try to revive Puppeteer to now compete with Microsoft's playwright. So to me it gets a kind of weird now when companies start competing with their different automation frameworks because then it's going to cause fragmentation and it's going to be just like it was in the 90s. That's why it's. I don't know if it's a good thing to have companies like Google and Microsoft involved. And that's why using an open source solution like Selenium has some benefits because it's not tied to a corporation like these other two solutions. Solutions are anyway just something to keep your eye on. If you haven't tried this functionality yet, I highly recommend you do. And maybe it's time to learn a little more about Puppeteer as well. Also Dimitri mentioned this brings up an interesting thing because that's why he thinks Microsoft bought GitHub because they've been training their AI model against GitHub. And that's why when you use ChatGPT, it's able to generate code because it was trained on all the code within GitHub. So just another interesting insight into some ethics or things of how the world is changing and what to be aware of when these companies purchase other companies and what their underlining motive is. So thank you Michael and Dimitri for sharing this insight with me at Selenium Confreciate you both. So I don't know if you've been seeing it, but a lot of software companies, software testing companies, are rolling out ambassador programs, maybe wondering why should I care? Why should I listen to Well I have an article on why Ambassador programs are really beneficial to you being involved with and so she list out a bunch of programs you can get involved with with the community. The one I'm really excited about obviously is applitools because applitools made me an official bastard a few weeks ago. Really excited about it because I've been using Applitools since 2015, ever since I interviewed Adam Carmy on my podcast and then I brought it into a huge company I was working with. So if you haven't checked out these Ambassador programs, I definitely recommend you do. And thank you Priscilla for all these links. So I also found a article on Playwright you definitely should check out as well. This is was posted by Stuart Thomas who pointed to an article by Kat. Kat's been on the show before and at the Automation Guild. Awesome resource for playwright and performance and it talks about a blog she recently released for zoopla. In the article it's all about making engineers love Playwright with the software design patterns and she goes over a few of the benefits to support this idea and goes over some popular object or design patterns that you need to know about, especially with Playwright. That's really going to get buy in from your engineering team and your developers. Speaking of generative AI, there's another resource from the awesome folks at Applitools on ChatGPT that you definitely should register for as well.

And this is on unlocking the power of ChatGPT in AI and test automation. What some next steps are that you can implement to get involved in this new wave of AI and testing. So by joining this webinar you're going to learn practical applications for the use of these technologies like GitHub, Copilot and Applitools Self Healing Cloud. And a lot of the benefits deal around handling flaky tests and handling negative edge case tests. You'll learn how to enhance your test automation strategies to make them faster, more more stable and easier to implement. You're going to take home techniques to generate realistic test data in different contexts. You're going to gain insights on how to combine up different tools to find the best possible solutions for your test automation needs. So if you haven't already, I highly recommend you register now for this event and hope to see you there. And so it just seems like Playwright is starting to get more and more users and you could tell how different projects are getting buy ins from companies by features that they start releasing. And here's one by LambdaTest that enhances their playwright capabilities. And this is how LambdaTest upgrades its playwright automation testing experience with the addition of its AI powered integrated test intelligence. And they talk a little bit about why they started investing a little more in Playwright. So given Playwright's increasing usage across the business world, they're excited to provide their customers with a deeper and more intuitive view of their testing, enabling them to identify issues faster and optimize their testing process.

And goes over how they're consistently trying to upgrade their automation offerings. And so that's why they just introduced the digital Experience test cloud with Playwright as kind of one of the main features of that release. So I'm always looking for different ways to leverage automation. So this next article is how you can use test automation with Value Stream to get more benefit out of your automation efforts. And this is about how the company Plainview and UiPath partnered to optimize test automation with the value stream management capabilities. What they did is they integrated UiPath business automation platform with their Plainview Market shaping Value stream management solution. And by combining the two you can now improve automating repetitive and time consuming task, reducing manual errors and accelerating the delivery of your products. And the reason why I bring it up is rather than just focus completely on functional automation, there's all other kinds of automation you can look into. And here's another awesome solution how you can leverage automation to help you beyond just functional automation. Next up, Performance Insight, Reliability News and this next article is a follow the Money segment on how a company recently raised $50 million. This was posted by Jeanette and she announced how Honeycomb recently raised 50 million in Series D round funding. And so it just shows the type of support that's going on within the observability space. So if you're not involved in observability, this is just one of those signs that says, hey, maybe I should get involved in this because it seems to be a growing area that I should have skills in to help my career as well. Next up, Security News. So this article is over a new feature that was just released by a company in the security API testing space. And the article goes over how Stackhawk offers enterprise customers the ability to implement modern DAST and API security testing with control and visibility across various teams. This goes into detail, a little more about the new feature to help enterprises and a little more about the company. If you haven't heard about Stackhawk before and for links of everything of value we covered in this news episode, head on over to the links in the first comment down below. And while there, make sure to check out our sponsor applitools free account offer and discover how to take your automation testing to the next level. Leveraging Visual AI So that's it. This episode of the Test Guild News Show. I'm Joe. My mission is help you succeed at creating end to end full stack pipeline automation awesomeness. As always, test everything and keep the good. Cheers.