Hands-on Java, Black Friday, Hack the Cloud and more! TGNS#66

Are your applications ready for Black Friday? Have you seen Andrew Jones new Java course? And what's a year and a life like for a site reliability engineer? Find out in this episode of the Automation and DevSecOps news show for the week of November 14th. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea and let's do this. This episode of the Test Skill new show is sponsored by the awesome folks at applitools. Applitools is a visual AI validation testing platform that's a must have for any automation project. So don't miss out on their free account offer now by clicking on the link in the first comment down below. And while you're there, why not like leave a comment and share with your friends? Subscribe and get alerted every time I release a new episode. First up, Automation News Serenity 3.41 is now. What's an include? Let's check it out and I've seen this many times before. Serenity is my was my Go to Automation framework when I worked full time as an automation engineer and one of the reasons why is they're constantly adding onto it, making it better. Also, John Ferguson Smart is a Go to resource. I don't know if you could see this but this book if you're doing bdd, if you have any problems with bdd, if you hear people badmouthing bdd, it's because they're not doing it right and they haven't read this book. So just a side note, check out this book, see how I have it all dog eared all over the place. Must get book as well and showed you how to do automation correctly with BDD and really good insight into Serenity if you haven't seen Serenity yet. But back to my main point, this release of Serenity includes Selenium 4.6 integration. It also has improved reporting for data driven tests, the reporting features and Serenity is off the hook as well, has some standardized naming changes as well and some other new features. So if you haven't checked out Serenity yet, highly recommend you do and you can find that in the first comment down below. So the holidays are right around the corner, especially Black Friday is coming. So is your site ready? If not, here's a resource you should definitely check out that can help you be ready and prepared for these type of events. So this webinar is going to go over some ways you can actually leverage applitools eyes to help you scan, validate and protect your application for performance issues or things that could occur, especially from a user perspective during the holiday season like Black Friday. So you're going to learn challenges of testing e commerce apps. You're going to discover why visual AI allows retail business to test faster, how applitools Eyes is perfect, how applitools Eyes is perfectly built for dynamic e commerce websites, a live demo and a bunch more. So highly recommend you register for that and be ready because like I said, you'd want to be featured on an episode like News of the Damned for perfbytes. So definitely here's a resource you should check out and hope to see you there. Want a Playwright Typescript template? If so, got one that you definitely should check out. This by Akshay and he just released version 0.22 of his playwright typescript template and the latest release includes best practices suggested by Playwright for selector locators that you definitely should give a look and actually has some links to Playwright best practices. So this is a boilerplate template for Playwright typescript framework for Web UI, API, mobile emulation, database visual testing, the Docker image, sonarqube and Lighthouse setup is also implemented. Really huge time saver that if you're doing anything with Playwright and especially you want something to help you with TypeScript, this is a go to resource that they can actually for that. All right, so this isn't necessarily a news item for automation. However I know Java is probably the number one language used for automation and a lot of people struggle with learning Java and it's a resource by Angie Jones, who's an automation expert, a developer expert, Ms. Angie in this space, but she has a course on Hands on Java that if you're struggling with automation and Java Java development, you definitely need to check this out. And like always Angie does hands on sessions. So this is a hands on introduction to Java and it uses GitHub Codespaces which is now free for 60 hours. And you're going to work together to help build a project with Angie Jones guiding the way. And if you check out the course, you'll see everything that's covered. So thank you Angie for this and all the awesomeness you contribute to both testing automation and development. LambdaTest just made an announcement for automation testing offerings for testing OTT streaming devices. What's it all about? Let's check out this announcement. So what's included in this offering is Fire tv, Apple TV and Roku tv. So it's focusing on cloud based automation testing around OTT streaming devices that are becoming more and more popular. And it also includes advanced features like parallel testing, remote control management, Appium integration, localization, testing, easy debugging so enterprises can really go through testing their digital offerings in a thorough way. And one of the co founders and head of product of Lambda Test talks about why OTT streaming devices are so important and why you need to be ahead of the curve to start testing them, and why this solution can help you with that. So another great offering by LambdaTest. And if you're doing anything with OTT streaming devices that you need to test and you look for a solution, this may be one that's perfect for you and your team and you can find it in the first comments down below. Next up, Performance and Site Reliability News so this is by Stephen Townsend and he talks about how he transitioned from a performance engineer to SRE over a year ago and some of his key learnings. So let's see what it's all about. So in this article he takes some time to reflect on what he's learned. So from his year making that transition from a performance engineer to an sre, goes over what are some of the impediments to implementing SRE in an organization and what questions he has yet to answer, and also goes over some technologies and tools that worked for him. If you're making or thinking of making the transition to an SRE, you want to know more what SREs do. Here's a must read resource for you. And thank you Stephen, as always for sharing your learnings over the years. Appreciate it. So speaking of site reliability engineering, a lot of times I think of cloud and containerization. So this next article is a money segment. It's how Cloud Truth raises 2.4 million to help DevOps teams manage cloud configurations. So Cloud Truth, a Boston based DevOps platform company, has raised 2.4 million in C round funding. And what's interesting here is it says that the global DevSecOps market will reach 23.4 billion by 2028 and the rising need for repeatable adoptable processes and custom code security key factors and driving industry demand and DevSecOps team struggle managing secrets and uniform configuration schemas for cloud and application resources and configuration complexity causes outages, security flaws and decrease team velocity. I've never heard of Cloud Truth before, but if you have, let me know your thoughts on it and you can find out more about them in the first comment down below. Next up, security and security testing news. So this next resource is Hacking the Cloud Encyclopedia of Attacks, tactics and techniques that offensive security professionals can use for the next cloud exploitation adventure. And it's by our good friend Umesh. So thank you Umesh for posting this. It's a repo that includes all this information and this hack in the cloud cycles over aws, Azure, gcp, Terraform and has a lot of information on types of techniques and attacks and exploitations and how to avoid detection and all of the things that you need to know about for hacking the cloud. So thank you Umesh once again for this resource. And finally, Wall arm released its Q3 API Threat Stats Report which reveals DevOps tools and infrastructure currently under attack that you need to know about. So the latest research shows that API risk remains high with 57% of all Q3 API vulnerabilities rated high to critical. And this report provides a deep analysis into all published API vulnerabilities and exploits for the quarter. And there are three key findings they point out that could be really costly to your organizations. The first one is infrastructure, the second one is injections, and the third one is exploits. So another great resource you should definitely check out as well. 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 you're there make sure to check out our awesome sponsor applitools free account offer and discover how to take your automation testing to the next level. Leveraging Visual AI so that's it for this episode of the Test Guild News Show. I'm Joe. My mission is to help you succeed at creating end to end full stack pipeline automation DevSecOps automation awesomeness. As always, test everything and keep the good. Cheers.