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TestGuild News Show: : Weekly Software Testing & DevOps News
by Joe Colantonio
The TestGuild News Show is a weekly 10-minute podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio, delivering the latest automation testing, DevOps, security, performance, and SRE news so you can start your week informed and focused.Each episode breaks down the most important updates, tools, and industry stories impacting software testers, automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and SREs — with practical context on what matters and why.If you want a fast, no-hype rundown of what's happening in modern software testing and delivery, grab your coffee and kick off the week with TestGuild.
Episodes
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WebdriverIO, AI Agents, and 7 Questions to Ask Before Trusting AI Testing TGNS197
Faster AI test runs or cheaper ones, which one should you actually pick? Is your WebdriverIO suite ready for the biggest change the project has made in fifteen years? Are you still copying CI jobs every time you add a test environment? Find out more in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for...
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Playwright MCP vs CLI, Mutation Testing and AI Agents Flying Blind
Playwright MCP or CLI: which one's really eating your AI budget? If you had 12,000 green unit tests, why would bugs still got through. AI agents can ship code fast, but can they see what breaks in production? Find out more in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Sep 27th. So,...
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5 AI Projects Every SDET Should Be Building, Jev , AI Agent Hacks and more TGNS195
What are 5 projects every SDET should build right now? Have you seen Google just confirmed its AI model hacked into three real companies during a routine test? What new AI model claims it can make decisions up to two hundred times faster than existing LLMs? Find out more in this episode of the…
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Shiplight, New Vibium Release,Pydantic AI and Playwright and More TGNS194
Is 60% of your week going to Playwright maintenance? An AI wrote you hundreds of tests but are the selectors even real? Your build is green BUT can you actually ship? Find out more in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of AUG 24. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and...
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Latest Selenium, TestMu, 45 Million for Code Validation and more TGNS193
Three days, 100 speakers, and zero dollars have you register for this agentic testing event yet? Reg Now: https://testgld.link/TestMu_conf26_social Is your Firefox Selenium suite about to break? And is your performance team doing engineering, or just putting on a show? Find out more in this…
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Playwright MCP Cost, OWASP's Warning, and the Question Nobody's Asking TGNS192
Is Microsoft is quietly steering you off Playwright MCP? OWASP tested 12 AI defenses but most of them break. Does yours? Forty six responses in, and one number already looks wrong. Find out more in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Aug 10th. So, grab your favorite cup of...
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Sauce Labs AURA, Playwright Tracing, Loop Engineering and More TGNS191
Did you know that more than half of enterprises admit they ship code with known critical defects? Would you let an AI agent block your release build? What happens when an AI passes a test by breaking into the place where the answers are kept? Find out more in this episode of the Test Guild News...
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Testing AI, Duplicate Test Detection, and the Death of Cucumber TGNS190
Is your test suite quietly billing you every single time it runs? Your agent wrote 30 new tests this week. How many of them actually test anything new? The guy who created Cucumber says he got it wrong. Here's what he built instead. Find out more in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for…
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New Playwright, LinkedIn's AI Tester, AI for Selenium and More TGNS189
Are you sitting on a Playwright upgrade that finally makes passwordless login testable? A chatbot invented a policy that didn't exist and cost a company real money in court. Is your test plan ready for that, or are you only testing the happy path? Have you heard how LinkedIn built a digital…
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Is AI Coming for Testers, or Are You About to Win Big? TGNS188
Are you falling into the selector trap that's probably burning like 80 percent of your team's time? Is Apple's new self-testing agent in Xcode 27 a genuine leap, or just more vibe coding to clean up later? Are testers really first in line to lose work to AI, or first in line to win the next big...
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From Vibe Slop to AgentOps, Postman AI, Bug Report to Release Sign Off and More! TGNS187
What if every bug report came with session replay, console errors, and network requests attached automatically? Postman just launched an AI Engineer that runs QA on every pull request. Helpful or hype? Plus, the free Playwright Step Decorator that's blowing up on LinkedIn, what is it? Find out in...
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The AI Testing Trust Crisis: Verification Costs, Gamed Benchmarks, and What Comes Next TGNS186
Have you seen the new testing tool that claims to give you fully working end-to-end tests in five minutes with zero setup? What are some of the ways AI agents are quietly gaming their own benchmarks, and what does that mean for how you evaluate them? How do you keep test-driven development alive...
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MCP Servers, Microcks, and the New AI Testing Stack TGNS185
Are you shipping code faster with AI but quietly skipping the tests that matter most? Did you know that GitHub Actions went down 57 times in 12 months? Does your MCP server pass every test but your AI agent still fail in production? Find out the answer to these and other top news stories for the...
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Testing in the Age of AI: What's Working, What's Not, and What's Next TGNS184
Is your test coverage keeping pace with your AI-accelerated dev team? If the honest answer is no, stay tuned. Can a browser agent beat your entire Selenium test suite for less than a cent per task? We've got the benchmark numbers. Plus, are you trusting your AI testing tools a little too much?…
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Automation Debt, AI Validation Crisis & Cypress Trust Gate Launch TGNS183
Are you spending 80% of your time fixing tests that never catch bugs? What are 2 must know Cypress plugins that are in the news this week? Is AI flooding your codebase with code nobody can validate? What to know more? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of March…
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Playwright Repair Agents, Cypress AI Assertions & the Future of QE TGNS182
Are your AI-assisted tests giving you a false sense of confidence? Is the traditional QA role about to be replaced by an Agentic Engineer? The creator of Selenium just showed up with something new, and you can see him live for free! Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the…
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AI Testing Tools, WireMock GUI, and a Free Event Near You TGNS181
Are you still writing Playwright tests by hand while AI can now generate them straight from user intent? Is your AI testing adoption stalling because you're skipping the most critical step most teams get wrong? And could a free, in-person testing event be coming to a city near you this week?"…
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Playwright Updates, Why Your Automated Tests Might Be Lying to You, AI and More TGNS180
Are your automated tests measuring anything? What would happen if you delegating your entire QA workflow to an AI agent? Is your observability bill now rivaling your production infrastructure costs? Find out the answerer to these and all the other top news stories in this episode of the Test…
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Testing Pyramid for AI Agents, Playwright Vibe Testing and More TGNS179
What if Playwright tests could be created, not coded — and what if that tool just removed the paywall to prove it? Are you testing AI agents all wrong? Could a Chrome extension replace your entire Playwright setup? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Jan 18. So,...
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Vibium, Autonomous Testing, and the CORS Model for AI Agent Security TGNS178
Did Jason Huggins just make selectors obsolete? What major test platform just rebranded around autonomous AI agents? And what if today's AI agents are repeating the same security mistakes the web made decades ago? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Jan 12th 2026....
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Automation Guild Kickoff, AWS Nova, Karate v2, and AI Testing Reality and more TGNS177
Which long-running testing event just announced registration for its 10th annual edition? Why are teams getting burned by something called VIBE syndrome, even when their AI-generated tests look solid on day one? Have you heard about the OWASP AI Testing Guide? Find out in this episode of the Test...
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Playwright + AI, Faster Migrations, Smarter Tests and More! TGNS176
What tool is trying to give testers more control over flakiness and element changes—without rewriting everything? How do you migrate cypress test to playwright? Have you seen how to do Mobile App Testing with AI Agents? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Nov…
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Test Automation Crisis,AI Takes Over Performance Testing and more TGNS175
Is your test automation making things worse? Could AI agents replace your entire performance testing workflow? The first AI-orchestrated cyber-attack just got blocked—What does this mean for AI safety testing? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Nov 16th. So, grab...
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LLM Testing. Free Test Tools, AI Test Management and More TGNS174
What are the top 4 free news tools every test should check out? How can AI-powered test management tools help QA teams balance rapid software delivery with quality assurance? Is your traditional test strategy falling apart with LLMs? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the…
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Playwright Shortcuts, Why Testability Matters, AI Agents and more! TGNS173
Is your architecture sabotaging your tests Playwright users, there's a new shortcut in town, what is it. AI testing tools are multiplying fast but what's actually useful versus what's just hype. Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Nov2 . So, grab your favorite cup...
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AI CY Prompt, Playwright Reliability, AWS Down and More TGNS172
Is Cypress about to change how you write automation forever? Are you spending more time coordinating deployments than actually testing? Should you trust AI to generate your Playwright scripts? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Oct 26th. So, grab your favorite…
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Testing Skyscrapers, AI Drift, Playwright Agents That Promise to Do It All
Is the Testing Pyramid holding your team back? AI agents are writing, planning, and even fixing your Playwright tests automaticall, but do they actually save time, or just add complexity? And why are your AI agent tests passing today but mysteriously failing tomorrow? Find out in this episode of...
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Forrester's Q3 Autonomous Testing Report, Accessibility, AI TDD
Are your accessibility tests missing critical issues? A new open-source framework with Selenium + Axe-core might be your fix. Can AI really make Test-Driven Development 10x faster? Autonomous testing is heating up. Forrester's Q3 2025 report reveals the big winners, risks, and disruptors testers...
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API Coverage, AI GitHub Reviewer,Automation Maturity Pyramid and More TGNS169
Are your API tests really covering what they should, or are you flying blind? Could this new AI GitHub reviewer stop bad code from slipping through your pipeline? And where does your team sit on the Automation Maturity Pyramid? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild News Show for the week of...
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AI IDEs, Self-Healing Tests, and a New Way to Score Quality
About This Episode: Are you overlooking this new tool that finds accessibility bugs? Could AI finally make your tests self-heal—without breaking everything else? Have you seen New way to measure software quality - we break it down for you. Find out in this episode of the Test Guild News Show for...
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Playwright MCP, Cypress FHIR API, AI Test Management and More
Is AI the future of Test management? Have you seen Is Playwright's must try brand-new browser extension? Can Cypress really automate complex healthcare APIs like FHIR Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Aug 24. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and…
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Is Performance Testing Dead,LLM Testing, AI Reliability, TestMu and More TGNS166
Looking for fresh insights and global testing connections? TestMu 2025 is just around the corner Are you testing LLMs the right way — or setting yourself up for hidden failures?" And, is performance testing really dead in the age of AI? The answer might surprise you. Find out in this episode of…
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Selenium's Successor, Quality vs Speed, AI in IDEs and more TGNS165
Is the Next Gen Selenium era about to begin? What new AI agents can write AND execute your tests? Are you sacrificing quality for speed? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Aug 10. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. TIME NEWS LINK 0:15...
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AI Lying, QA Dying, Risk Based Testing and more TGNS164
Are you over-testing the wrong features and missing critical bugs? This one tool might fix that. Did an AI agent really lie to cover up deleting production data? Yep—and we've got the full story. Is your test suite helping your business make millions—or slowing it down? Here's how to tell. Find…
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Testing Tool Matcher, New Playwright IDE, Flame Graphs and More! TGNS163
Still struggling to pick the right testing tools? Could no-code automation finally help your whole team contribute to automation? Is a new visual IDE about to change how you debug Playwright tests? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of July 13th. So, grab your...
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Top Testing Moves This Week: Playwright Migration, AI Skills, Shift-Left Pitfalls TGNS162
Are you stuck in a test migration maze? Can you really shift left… or are you shifting into chaos? And is Copilot's new browser the ultimate shortcut for automation engineers? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild News Show for the week of July 6. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea…
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The Illusion of Testing, Jarvis Appium, OpenAI CUA, and more TGNS161
The Illusion of Testing, Jarvis Appium, OpenAI CUA, and more Is AI-powered testing just an illusion? What is Jarvis Appium? How can you use OpenAI's Computer-Using Agent to create a front-end testing agent? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of June 22. So, grab…
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AI Generate Missing Playwright Tests, Postman AI, CY-prompt and more TGNS160
How can you generate Missing Tests Automatically with Playwright Have you seen the post on automating Postman API Responses using AI? What is the new feature that Cypress just released CY-prompt all about? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of June 8. So, grab your...
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AI Contract Testing, ReportPortal Playwright, Test Data and More TGNS159
How can you create contract tests using AI? What to know how to integrate ReportPortal with your Playwright Project? Have you seen this open source library that uses AI to automate both mobile and web applications. Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of June 1. So,...
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AI Test Management, AI Prompts for Playwright, Codex and More TGNS158
Have you seen the lates AI Powered Test Management Tool? What AI prompts can you use for supercharging your Playwright? Why would you use the new Tap feature in WebDriverIO? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of May 18th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea,...
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AI-first Fail, MCP Appium Gestures, Playwright, K6, and more TGNS157
Do you know the latest MCP for Gestures in Appium What AI first company failed and started hiring people again Have you heard of the Functional Page Model for Playwright? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of May 11. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and...
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Agent2Agent, MCP Accessibility, Kubernetes Performance and More
Have you seen this latest AI-powered test automation planform? What is the Agent2Agent and how does it relate to MCP How does SEGA use automation testing? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of May 4. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this.…
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Accelerate QA Using AI, Appium MCP, Security Testing and More TGNS155
Do you know how to accelerate your QA Process with AI and Playwright? What is the latest must try MCP in automation Why would you ever use Reverse Mutation Testing Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of April 27. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's...
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Scraping Browser, Netflix App Testing. AI code Reviews and More TGNS154
What are some features of Scraping Browser that can help your automation tests? How does Netflix App Test at Scale? Are AI code reviews replacing human reviewers? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of April 20th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and…
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MCPs everywhere, NASA Hates LLMs and More! TGNS153
Who Cares About AI-Augmented Software Testing Have you seen all the new MCP servers like the one for Selenium Why does NASA hate LLMS? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of April 6. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:15 ZAPTEST.AI...
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Playwright MCP, k6 Studio, AI Hype and More TGNS152
Did you hear about the must view resource on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: How to Survive in a ChatGPT World? Have you seen the new the Playwright Model Context Protocol (MCP)? What is k6 studio? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of March 23. So, grab…
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What CTOs need to know about GenAI Testing and more TGNS151
What do CTOs need to know about GenAI in Testing? Have you tried Browser Use yet? Want to know a new tool to help you analyze and debug tests. Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of March 16. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:16...
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Autonomous Ethical Hacking, New Playwright, Robot Framework Certification TGNS150
Have you seen the new features of Playwright? What automation certification was just announced? Why should you know about Autonomous Ethical Hacking? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of March 8th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this.…
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Visual and API Testing with Playwright, JMeter Book and more TGNS149
Do you know how to do Visual Testing in Playwright? What is an awesome way to Simplify & Automate Front End Testing? How do you Master Apache JMeter From load testing to DevOps? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of March 2nd. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or...
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Agentic Al Taking Over Automation Testing? AI Code Quality and more TGNS148
Is Agentic Al Is Taking Over Automation Testing What Is Performacology? Did you hear of the AI security company that just Raised $13M Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Feb 23. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:26 ZAPTEST.AI...
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The TestGuild News Show is a weekly 10-minute podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio, delivering the latest automation testing, DevOps, security, performance, and SRE news so you can start your week informed and focused.Each episode breaks down the most important updates, tools, and industry stories impacting software testers, automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and SREs — with practical context on what matters and why.If you want a fast, no-hype rundown of what's happening in modern software testing and delivery, grab your coffee and kick off the week with TestGuild.
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