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Introducing: Weekly Test Guild Online Meetups

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The weekly Test Guild Friday meetups/mastermind have begun!

Just like our Test Guild Conferences, our meetups will be attendee led, meaning you tell me who and what you want to hear and what format you’d prefer for future meetups.

I love that Tricentis Flood said in one of their recent tweets that working from home shouldn't prevent you from meeting up virtually with your fellow testers and developers to chat all testing.


I couldn't agree more, and that’s the main reason I’ve begun holding weekly Test Guild meetups.

This gathering of the Guild will occur every Friday at either 10 AM (ET) or 3 PM (ET), depending on when we can get a speaker.

I selected the day and time based on survey results filled out by our existing Guild members.

If you're interested in giving an informal presentation or screen share of a tip, tool, technique, or best practice around functional automation, security, DevOps, or performance testing, let me know.

Our first meetup guest was Leandro Melendez a/k/a/ Señor Performo, and he shared his rant on why Performance Testing is not Load Testing. The Guild also came together with some relevant questions for Leandro.

It was a great success, with over 545 folks registering and 140+ attending live.

I've annotated the video below so you can easily find the questions and answers you're most interested in; however, we recommend watching the whole event! :)

I hope to see you at the next meetup. Please let me know of any suggestions or constructive feedback you might have.

A bearded man with blue glasses and a black-and-white jacket smiles at a microphone in a studio setting.

About Joe Colantonio

Joe Colantonio is the founder of TestGuild, an industry-leading platform for automation testing and software testing tools. With over 25 years of hands-on experience, he has worked with top enterprise companies, helped develop early test automation tools and frameworks, and runs the largest online automation testing conference, Automation Guild.

Joe is also the author of Automation Awesomeness: 260 Actionable Affirmations To Improve Your QA & Automation Testing Skills and the host of the TestGuild podcast, which he has released weekly since 2014, making it the longest-running podcast dedicated to automation testing. Over the years, he has interviewed top thought leaders in DevOps, AI-driven test automation, and software quality, shaping the conversation in the industry.

With a reach of over 400,000 across his YouTube channel, LinkedIn, email list, and other social channels, Joe’s insights impact thousands of testers and engineers worldwide.

He has worked with some of the top companies in software testing and automation, including Tricentis, Keysight, Applitools, and BrowserStack, as sponsors and partners, helping them connect with the right audience in the automation testing space.

Follow him on LinkedIn or check out more at TestGuild.com.

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