Automation Voting, C# API Testing, and More!

Did you vote yet for what sessions you want at the next Automation Guild??

Have you heard about the amazing development for C# API developer testers?

Find out the answers to these and all other end-to-end full pipelines, DevOps, software testing, automation testing, performance testing, and security testing in 10 minutes or less in this episode of the Test Guild new show for the week of October 16th. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this.

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First up, Automation News.

Eggplant with Sauce

?As I mentioned in last week's show, I went to the Star West conference and forgot to mention that while I was there, Jonathan Wright, the automation cyborg let me know that Keysights in SauceLabs have teamed up.?

Jonathan and Keysights are doing many cool things around Ai-Powered test automation. And they ?? have partnered with SauceLabs to help with mobile device testing in the cloud.?

If you're using Eggplant, you'll be happy to know that it now works with SauceLab's real device cloud. They're calling this integration the ultimate solution for scalable, high-quality testing.?

If you haven't heard of Keysights before, they acquired Eggplant a few years ago and really do many innovative things in this space.?

Hey, what's better than some eggplant with sauce on it? :)

Playwright

Also, you probably heard me say that between the big three automation tools (Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright), it seems like ?? Playwright is starting to pull ahead, and I'm seeing many different people posting about it Playwright on LinkedIn.?

And here's just one example that I wanted to share with you about how someone found it very helpful for their automation.?

So Alejandro Sanchez Giraldo just pointed out that Playwright continues to surprise him, that he was able to mock an API-based endpoint, and that he used a Regex path that can do some visual validation testing for a specific element. Even better ran across three browsers; you can see the code he used to achieve this.?

I wanted to point this out because looking at GitHub is a great way to learn to code or see how other people have code things.

Accessibility Testing Workshop

No matter what role you're in with widespread regulation and guidelines changes on the horizon, your team needs to keep their eyes on accessibility.?

So what do you do?

How do you prepare for all the coming changes you will need to be aware of? How do you make your applications more accessible? So I have a resource you should check out to help with this.?

It's a free webinar called ?? You, Me, and Accessibility: Empathy and Human-Centered Design Thinking. Erin Hess will lead this workshop, and she will teach you how to address some key questions, including:

• The most common accessibility categories.?
• Where to consider accessibility in your software development lifecycle? What's the intersection of software and empathy look like?
• How does empathy empowers teams in end users and drives innovation??

Accessibility testing has been hot, hot the past few years. Suppose you aren't doing it yet. Here's a great chance to see how others are doing it and how to be successful with it.?

Also, you'll learn some accessible, fun, and approachable ways that the entire project team can contribute to accessibility testing. So definitely check out this must-attend workshop. Hope to see you there.

C# API Testing Library

Want to help out a well-known test automation leader? Here's an excellent chance, especially if you're into API, Rest-assured, and C-sharp testing. And this is by Bas Dijkstra. So Bas is looking for alpha testers for his ?? latest release of RestAssured .Net 0.1.?

This is a port over of the JaVA rest-assured library for C-sharp.?

I love Rest-Assured and interviewed the creator Johan Haleby way back in 2015.

Since then, different testers repeatedly asked me if there was a C# version.

I would say no, too bad; rest assured didn't have a C# version.?

Now, thanks to Bas, it does, and you can return the favor by helping him out.

This article points out what's supported by this release. And what's not yet supported, as well as a link to the GitHub repository where you can learn more.?

Highly recommend you check this and give your feedback.

Grokking Continuous Delivery

Do you want a resource that helps you with their continuous delivery process from an expert at Google? I discovered that the ?? book Grokking Continuous Delivery by Christie Wilson is now in print.?

I interviewed Christie Wilson about this when she was still working on the book, so I was excited to see that the print version is now available.

I recommend you listen to her podcast interview, head to Manning Publishing, and buy the book.?

Time to Vote

I've been swamped starting to ramp up planning for Automation Guild 2023. AG23 will be the seventh annual online event dedicated 100% to helping you with all things and end-to-end automation in testing, and I need your help.?

All Guild Conferences are attendee-led, and we take a democratic approach to find out what sessions you want or things that you're struggling with rather than me making assumptions.?

And the way to do that is to vote on our sessions.

Voting and speaker info is anonymous.?

We have the titles and the description that the speakers submitted. And just based on that title and description, you can vote on all the ones you are interested in.?

Based on the results, I see the highest-voted ones and then put together a program based on what you are struggling with to ensure we have the most relevant, high-quality content to help accelerate your automation in the New Year.?

?????? Vote now and let your automation voice be heard.

Next up, performance and Site Reliability News.

Dynatrace Grail

Dynatrace just released a new product that supposedly threatens Splunk, according to The Motley Fool.

The new product is called ?? Dynatrace Grail, and how they believe this new release can shake up the industry. And this article goes over how cloud computing is a game changer in the software technology space in that companies when making this shift, need the right tools for the job. And this is one of the most significant areas that's been shake-up is the niche in data analytics.

And the article goes over from a financial perspective why they are all in on the new Dynatrace platform to help you with observability and how they believe Dynatrace helps you specifically address the world's mega organizations are massive amounts of data in complex systems. So just an interesting article to see from our perspective outside of testing, but just from simple financials and a great release by Dynatrace.

Dynatrace describes itself as Overcoming cloud complexity through instant, cost-efficient, AI-powered analytics for observability, security, and business data at any scale.

Please let me know your thoughts if you have checked it out.?

TelemetryHub

So another popular topic in the observability type space is open telemetry.

This next article talks all about TelemetryHub. TelemetryHub is by Scout APM, ?? a powerful observability platform that makes it easy to monitor your application's performance with open telemetry. TelemetryHub enables users to ingest telemetry data from platforms instrumented with the Open Telemetry Project. Sarah Morgan, TelemetryHub's senior product manager, says?

TelemetryHub is fully invested in the open telemetry project as the future of observability and standardizing how applications, processing data will ensure organizations an ever-evolving vendor agnostic, flexible solution for achieving observability within their organizations and maintaining a high level of understanding of the application end user pain points.

Check out TelemetryHub if you haven't already, and check out telemetry because that is the future of observability.

?Next up, security testing news.

Microsoft announced the defender cloud security posture management and defender for DevOps have ?? two new offerings within the company's defender for cloud services, previously known as Azure Defender, and the managing software development in runtime security across multi-cloud, multi-pipeline environments. It's currently available in public preview.?

This article also points out that in a 2020 report,?

59% of cybersecurity teams received more than 500 alerts about cloud security daily, and a large portion of those were false positives

So another exciting development in security.

We've heard a lot about the cloud, cloud-first, and cloud-native from automation, performance, and now from a security perspective.

That's a Wrap

So that's it for this Test Guild News Show Newsletter edition.?

I'm Joe Colantonio, and my mission is to help you succeed in creating end-to-end full-stack Pipeline automation awesomeness. ?? Click to get my 10 test automation tips.?

As always, test everything and keep the good. Cheers.

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