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Talk of the Week — 329 episodes

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The State of Testing in 2026

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Episode 235: Who tf is Jevon?

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Agentic Engineering for Testers: How to Automate Your Way to the Top with Amit Rawat

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How to Test Any API Without Documentation with Liudas Jankauskas

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Your AI Code Review Is Lying to You (Here's the Fix) with Evan Marshall

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Episode 234: Mobile Testing with Aditya Challa

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Espisode 233: Empathy Elevated w/ Colette Molteni

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AI QA Agents Explained: How Amikoo Helps Testers with Ivan Barajas Vargas

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Hot, flaky, and unfinished – Testing, accessibility, and the grief we don't talk about – Ep 137

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The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantonio

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AI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev Velocity with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim

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Episode 232: More AI with Prince Kohli

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End to what end?

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How clean code led to continuous cleaning – Ep 136

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Episode 231: The B is Back

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Maestro MCP, AI Mobile Testing That Fixes Its Own Tests with Leland Takamine

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Quality thinking and the role of epistemology – Ep 135

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AI Testing Costs, How to Prevent Runaway Token Bills with Arthur Hicken

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Celebrate Good Times

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Too much vibe not enough quality wins – Ep 134

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Stop Rewriting Tests: How to Add AI to Selenium and Playwright Without Starting Over with Alex Rodionov

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Episode 230: Kat Obring is Back

23

Quality on the Boundaries #PeersCon27 Theme Launch

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Claude AI Mobile Testing, Run Real Device Tests with AI with Frank Moyer and Chris Faulhaber

25

AI-Powered Predictive Autoscaling for Kubernetes with Jennifer Rahmani

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How to Build a Culture of Comprehensive Quality with Matt Gilbert

27

Influencing Quality

28

Python Test – 237: FastAPI Cloud – Sebastián Ramírez

29

The Strategy Episode

30

Are AI Agents Replacing Contract Testing? DevOps Insights from Matt Fellows

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From Testing to DevOps – A Career Move That Makes Sense with Maciek Konkolowicz

32

Python Test – 236: Git Tips for Testing – Adam Johnson

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No Scripts, No Frameworks, No Maintenance? with Don Jackson

34

Software That Cares

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Scaling to Millions & Beyond with Mohammed Ali Chherawalla (Mac)

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From the Trenches to the Boardroom: Making QE Matter to the C-Suite with Parasar Saha

37

Python Test – 235: pytest-django – Adam Johnson

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PeersCon 26 Programme Committee and Theme Launch

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Scaling Smart: DevOps Techniques for Cloud-Native Success with Jacek Marmuszewski

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How to test a stage 99 times over – Ep 99

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Exploring Playwright and MCP with Debbie O’Brien

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Knowledge Resilience

43

Performance reviews are like marmite Ep 98

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AI, IoT, and the Future of DevSecOps with Hariharan Ragothaman

45

Solving Challenges in Software Testing with Kristijan Plaushku

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Top tips for TestBash: How to explore the happy path Ep 97

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WireMock with Tom Akehurst

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When the Cloud Isn’t an Option: Securing Your API Testing Strategy with Thomas Hurley

49

Bad Quality By Design

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Confessions of a testing community Ep 96

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Software Testing Job Market with Jack Cole

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Automating the DevOps Pipeline with Maurice McCabe

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Mastering Medical Device Testing with Priyank Soni

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Leading with quality actions, not titles Ep 95

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How to Grow your Career in Cybersecurity with Grant McCracken

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What is Reverse Mutation Testing with Leonardo Lanni

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Don't worry! I'm a Tester Ep 94

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QR Podcast – Alessandra Moreira

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Testing inside the boxes and beyond Ep 93

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Aligning DevOps Teams for API Quality with Temil Sanchez

61

Making Work Visible

62

Overcoming Mobile Testing DevOps Challenge (Episode 3 of the SmartBeat Employees – Mobile Testing) with Todd McNeal

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The Importance of Trust in Software Testing and AI with Damian Synadinos

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Why are testers so good at delivering bad news? Ep 92

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Will AI Replace DevOps Engineers, BI and More with Mark Koelsch

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Building a Career in QA with Judy Mosley

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QR Podcast – Santosh Tuppad

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How do you document feedback on your documentation? Ep 91

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Getting Quality a Seat at the Table

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Is vibe testing going to kill off test management? Ep 90

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Observability at Scale with AI with Jacob Leverich

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European Accessibility Act: What Software Testers Need to Know (Actionable Guide) with Laveena Ramchandani

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Testing AI’s Promises with Michael Bolton

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TWiT-89 Testers like to talk

75

Synthetic Data in Testing

76

The Rise of Agentic AI: Transforming DevOps and Testing with Bridges Smith

77

Python Test – pytest-metadata – provides access to test session metadata

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QR Podcast – James Christie

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But how are we gonna test this? Ep 88

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The Secret Life of Automation with Michael Bolton

81

Python Test – pytest-check – allow multiple failures per test

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AI in Testing: Innovation or Just Noise? with Fitz Nowlan

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Breaking news about breaking news Ep 87

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AI’s Impact on Testing Careers with Jason Arbon

85

Women In Testing, Part 2

86

Python Test – The role of AI in software testing – Anthony Shaw

87

How To Optimize your Automation CI/CD Pipelines (and Save Money) with Gaurav Mittal

88

Scaling ML Infrastructure Like a Pro with Elliott Clark

89

Women In Testing, Part 1

90

TWiT Ep 86: Episode 86: Do new testers really need to learn automation?

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Python Test – pytest-repeat – works fine on Python 3.14

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Automation – First DevOps Focus with Kedar Kulkarni

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QR Podcast – Ash Hynie

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Meet JASON HUGGINS, The Genius Behind Selenium!

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Storytelling

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Episode 219: Mailbag and Goodbye For Now

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How crucial will the MCP approach be for AI Agents? TWiT Ep 85

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Python Test – Python 3.14 won't repeat with pytest-repeat

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Episode 218: The Principles of AI Assisted Coding

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Proactive Observability in Testing with Anam Hira

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Does the happy path make us happy? Ep. 84

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Python Test – pytest-html – a plugin that generates HTML reports for test results

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DevOps Transformation: Culture, Strategy, and Lessons Learned with Derek Ferguson

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Where have all the junior quality roles gone? Ep 83

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Episode 217: Remote Work and Big News

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The API Vector with Jeremy Snyder

107

Practicing Software Testing – Guest James Lyndsay

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Swift Driver for Appium Automation Testing with Dalton Alexandre

109

Testing In The Pub – Making Better Testers (Part II)

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How Google Improved Developer Experience with Hugo Santos

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Testing In The Pub – Making Better Testers (Part I)

112

Tackling Enterprise Testing Challenges with AI with Srirang Srikantha

113

AST James Bach Interview (Part II)

114

Unlocking AI in DevOps with IBM's Watson xCode with Keri Olson

115

AST James Bach Interview (Part I)

116

Mastering Robot Framework Techniques at RoboCon Online with Guido Demmenie, Kelby Stine and Manana Koberidze

117

Let's Test Interview

118

Episode 216: A Palate Cleanser from AI

119

STAR East – The Viability of Context Driven Testing

120

Python Test – pytest-md and pytest-md-report: Markdown reports for pytest

121

Screen Testing – "Rocky" in Philly

122

DevOps Culture and Practice with Tim Beattie

123

QR Podcast – ISO29119 Roundtable

124

From Laid Off to Employed (Survival Guide) with Robert Lukenbill

125

AI/ML, MongoDB in DevOps and More with Richmond Alake

126

Testability

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From Manual QA to Automation Engineer Using AI with Tal Barmeir and Sapnesh Naik

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QR Podcast – James Bach

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Test Coaching

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Episode 215: The Beat Goes On

131

Python Test – Mocking in Python with unittest.mock – Michael Foord

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Top 10 Software Testing Conferences with Joe Colantonio

133

Python Test – pytest-mock : Mocking in pytest

134

Transformations

135

Solving Test Automation Challenges (2025 Guide) with Chris Trimper

136

Episode 214: The AI Apocalypse

137

Python Test – pytest-cov : The pytest plugin for measuring coverage

138

Top 8 Automation Testing Trends for 2025 with Joe Colantonio

139

Professional Development

140

Unlocking Robot Framework: RoboCon HELSINKI with Gerwin Laagland, Markus Stahl and Stavroula Ventoura

141

Ultimate Guide to Selecting Test Automation Solutions with Anna Royzman

142

Python Test – pytest plugins – a full season

143

Context in Context Driven Testing

144

The Software Tester’s Journey with Nicola Lindgren and Vernon Richards

145

Episode 213: The 2024 Year in Review

146

Revolutionizing QA with GenAI: A New Era in Software Testing with Fitz Nowlan

147

This Week in Testing – Episode 67 – 8 November, 2024

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This Week in Testing – Episode 66 – 1 November, 2024

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Leveraging GenAI to Accelerate Cloud Migration with Alex Kearns

150

This Week in Testing – Episode 65 – 25 October, 2024

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This Week in Testing – Episode 64 – 18 October, 2024

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Discover Future Trends in Automation at Automation Guild

153

AI and the New Era of Cybersecurity Threats with Mateo Rojas-Carulla

154

Removing Pain Points in Mobile Test Automation with Daniel Knott

155

From Code to Leadership with Evan Niedojadlo

156

Tools for Testers

157

AI Impact in Software Testing with Gaurav Mittal

158

Digital Testing Equals Testing of Digitalized Processes with Tobias Müller

159

How to Building High-Performing Engineering Teams with Andrew Duncan

160

Episode 212: AI and Engagement Surveys

161

Does the role of the SDET have a future?

162

This Week in Testing – Episode 61 – 27 September, 2024

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What's Next? (Careers)

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How Generative AI is Elevating Testing Quality in Healthcare with Richard Kedziora

165

Python Test – 223: Writing Stuff Down is a Super Power

166

This Week in Testing – Episode 60 – 20 September, 2024

167

AI as Your Testing Assistant with Mudit Singh

168

How to Track Test Related Events (New Relic) with Rodrigo Martin

169

The Headless Tester (Halloween Special 2024) with Paul Grossman

170

Episode 211: Leadership Stuff

171

The Emerging Threats of AI with Eli Farhood

172

This Week in Testing – Episode 59 – TestBash Special!

173

Exploring AI and Cloud with Microsoft’s Naveen Krishnan

174

From Chaos to Clarity: Improving Software Testing Practices with Prathyusha Nama

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Authenticity at work

176

Combining AI and Playwright using Autify Genesis with Ryo Chikazawa

177

Simplifying the AI/ML to Production Pipeline with Görkem Ercan

178

Community Dynamics in Automation Testing with Mike Verinder

179

Sap For Utilities 2024 Reflections

180

QE AI Code Quality in DevOps with Itamar Friedman

181

Letting Go

182

Episode 210: Mailbag with ChatGPT

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Brain Refactor: Optimize Your Internal Code To Thrive in Tech & Engineering with Dagna Bieda

184

This Week in Testing Episode 58 – 06 September, 2024

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Why Security Testing is an important skill for a QEs with Boris Arapovic

186

This Week in Testing Episode 57 – 23 August, 2024

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Centralized Secrets Management Without the Chaos with Brian Vallelunga

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This Week in Testing – Episode 56 – 16 August, 2024

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WebLoad vs LoadRunner vs jMeter (Who Wins?) with Paul Kanaris

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API Testing 3 ways: Postman, Playwright, and Jest Compared with Stephen Kilbourn

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This Week in Testing – Episode 55 – 09 August, 2024

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Episode 209: AI and Testing?

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Single Points of Failure

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This Week in Testing – Episode 54 – 02 August, 2024

195

INGenious Playwright Studio with Ashish Ghosh

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Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability with Steve Flanders

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This Week in Testing – Episode 53 – 26 July, 2024

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No Testers, No Problem

199

This Week in Testing – Episode 52 -19 July, 2024

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Episode 208: Brain Refactor w/ Dagna Bieda

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Low-Code Test Automation a Journey from Skepticism to Success with Rudolf Groetz

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This Week in Testing – Episode 51 – 12 July, 2024

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Python Test – 222: Import within a Python package

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This Week in Testing – Episode 50 – 5 July, 2024

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Episode 207: No, GenAI isn't replacing your team

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This Week in Testing – Episode 49 – 28 June, 2024

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Learning Fast

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This Week in Testing – Episode 48 – 21 June, 2024

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Exploring WebDriverIO Version 9 with Christian Bromann

210

This Week in Testing – Episode 47 – 14 June, 2024

211

Testing Beyond Bugs to Unlock Growth with Gojko Adzic

212

This Week in Testing – Episode 46 – 7 June, 2024

213

Sumit M on Mastering AI Model Evaluation: Overfitting, Confusion Matrix, and More [S02E01] LT018

214

Leveraging AI for Secure DevOps with Peter McKee

215

This Week in Testing – Episode 45 – 31 May, 2024

216

Emotional Intelligence

217

This Week in Testing – Episode 44 – 24 May, 2024

218

Transforming Test Engineering in Rwanda with Greg Paskal

219

Breaking Down DevOps Testing Silos with Danny Lagomarsino

220

This Week in Testing – Episode 43 – 17 May, 2024

221

Building Testing Teams

222

Observability Testing Using OpenTelemetry with Swapnil Kotwal

223

PerfBytes – Talking about Kubernetes

224

Essential CISO Skills and Strategies with Dr. Sly Cotton

225

Episode 206: Crowd-Crash

226

AI’s Role in Test Automation and Collaboration with Mark Creamer

227

Mastering ETL Testing with Chris Thompson and Mike Calabrese

228

Building a Real World DevOps Pipeline with Javier Alejandro Re

229

DevOps Software Testing Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them with Jay Aigner

230

This Is The Way

231

Episode 205: We're Afraid of AI

232

AI-Assisted Testing with Mark Winteringham

233

Beginner Guide to Load Testing

234

Stars, Stripes, and Software: Alex Zap’s Journey to ZAPTEST with Alex Chernyak

235

PerfBytes Español – Herramientas para automatizar pruebas de carga

236

Quality Engineering

237

Mastering Playwright Automation with AI with Joe Colantonio

238

AI-Driven DevOps Data Security and Privacy with Amjad Afanah

239

Degrees of Automation with Paul Grizzaffi

240

Episode 204: The Three Ways of Devops & MT

241

Let's Get Continuous

242

AI Observability with Eran Grabiner

243

Presentations

244

PerfBytes Español – Platicando con Rodrigo Campos Don Tester

245

DevOps Crime Scenes: Using AI-Driven Failure Diagnostics

246

Demystifying Open-Telemetry with Michael Haberman

247

Contract Testing in Action (Book Review) with Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott

248

Episode 203: Podcast Alan

249

PerfBytes – Performers and Developers – with Matthieu Leroux-Huet

250

PerfBytes – Performance at #StarEast 2024 – With Mark Tomlinson

251

Emergent Requirements

252

Challenge Accepted: Rethinking Automation with Benjamin Bischoff

253

How AI Streamlines Tasks in Business and Software Development DevOps with Ian Harris

254

Ultimate Selenium WebDriver Guide for Test Automation with Robin Gupta

255

Episode 202: The Return

256

PerfBytes Español – Vuelven WOPR y QS Conf 2024!

257

Getting the Most Out of Open Source with Yousaf Nabi

258

Square Peg, Round Hole

259

How to Hire Good Testers and Stand Out as a Top Candidate with Paul Merrill

260

Harnessing Cloud-Native Technologies for Agile Development with Ken Pomella

261

What's new in SAP testing?

262

Debunk Autonomous Software Testing Myths with Tobias Müller

263

Effortless Code Quality And Security For Developers with Jaime Jorge

264

Testing with Generative AI

265

#PeersCon24 Retrospective

266

Mobile Mastery: Blending AI with App Testing with Dan Belcher

267

Python Test – 220: Getting the most out of PyCon, including juggling – Rob Ludwick

268

Quality Sense Podcast S5E8 | Pair Testing with Ben Dowen

269

Episode 201: Aftermath

270

The Four Phases of Automation Testing Mastery with Jon Robinson

271

The Future of DevOps: AI-Driven Testing with Fitz Nowlan and Todd McNeal

272

Python Test – 219: Building Django Apps & SaaS Pegasus – Cory Zue

273

Linguistic Gatekeeping

274

Expert Take on Playwright, and API Testing with Bas Dijkstra

275

Quality Sense Podcast S5E7 | Resilience And Flexibility For Testers With Micaela Rodríguez

276

AI-Powered Security Orchestration in DevOps with Brittany Greenfield

277

Python Test – 218: Balancing test coverage with test costs – Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya

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DevOps Success: Merging Automation, Culture, and Performance Testing with Lee Barnes, Scott Moore and Paul Grizzaffi

279

PerfBytes Español – Platicando de Open Telemetry con Jorge Turrado

280

CTO Insights on Gen AI's Impact on DevOps with Matt Van Itallie

281

Leveraging AI for Robust Requirements Analysis and Test Generation with Scott Aziz and John Smart

282

DevOps Cybersecurity 101 with Jason Mar-Tang

283

Automated Observability with David Wynn

284

Python Test – 217: Podcasting / SaaS / Work Life Balance – Justin Jackson

285

The Smartest Person in the Room: Book with Christian Espinosa

286

Awesome Software Testing Strategies with Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen

287

Cloud Visibility for QA and DevOps with Greg Arnette

288

Owning Your Career

289

Episode 200: IT'S EPISODE 200

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Quality Sense Podcast S5E6 | Performance Testing and Sustainability with Mark Tomlinson

291

Episode 199: Ten Years Gone

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Cognitive Biases In Testing

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Episode 198: Fiefdoms

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RoboCon Recap: Testing, Networking, and Building with Robot Framework with Tatu Aalto, Mark Moberts and Frank Van der Kuur

295

Quality Sense Podcast S5E5 | Performance Testing with Guillaume Betaillouloux

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Episodde 197: Wait – Test is Alive Again

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Saying No

298

Netflix SafeTest with Moshe Kolodny

299

Measuring

300

PerfBytes Español – Hablando de Web Performance con Estela Franco

301

The New Age of Performance Testing

302

Quality Sense Podcast S5E4 | Quality In The Field With Darrel Farris

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Redefining Test Automation with Dave Piacente

304

Episode 196: A Chat with Kat Obring

305

Python Test – 216: ruff, uv, and Astral: Python tooling, much faster, with Rust

306

PerfBytes – Performance testing tools in 2024

307

Quality Sense Podcast S5E3 | Effective Communication In Testing With Noel Wurst

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Quality Sense Podcast S5E2 | Automation Awesomeness With Joe Colantonio

309

How to Create Testing Magic with Zero-code with Shubham Jain

310

Quality Sense Podcast S5E1 | ChatGPT, AI, And Testing With Vera Babat

311

Changing Face of Automation

312

AI Meets Cucumber: A New Testing Approach Using Prompt Engineering with Guy Arieli and Tal Barmeir

313

Testing Peers 100

314

PerfBytes Español – Trabajo en performance 2024

315

No B.S Guide to AI In Test Automation with Tariq King

316

Episode 195: AI and Alicorns

317

Traffic-Driven Testing for Faster Execution with Nate Lee

318

Python Test – 214: Python Testing in VS Code

319

Episode 194: More Testing and AI with Jason Arbon (part 2)

320

Episode 193: More Testing and AI with Jason Arbon (part 1)

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Failures

322

AutomationGuild 2024 Lineup and BIG News with Joe Colantonio

323

PerfBytes – Performance Job Offers

324

DevOps Performance Trends for 2024 with Scott Moore

325

Innovating Mobile Testing: 42Gears Game-Changer AstroFarm with Prakash Gupta

326

Python Test – 213: Repeating Tests

327

PerfBytes Español – Que es Kubernetes

328

Episode 192: Bryan Finster

329

Meetings