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TestGuild News Show: : Weekly Software Testing & DevOps News

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.

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#197
October 5 · 10 min
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 the week of Oct 5th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:20 7 AI Questions Webinar https://testgld.link/coj9D0gO 1:34 WebdriverIO v10 https://testgld.link/5k2ERh25 2:57 Multi-Environment Playwright https://testgld.link/MLgCZJXI 4:20 cypress-performance-ui https://testgld.link/GRtRvnXO 5:25 Your Test Suite Is a Product https://testgld.link/lXxmhITO 6:30 Alumnium 0.23 https://testgld.link/6aQSFoME 7:37 Chaos Engineering in the AI Era https://testgld.link/dAgiEgWJ 8:22 Open Sources e2e https://testgld.link/AfT1pSLW
#196
September 28 · 9 min
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, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:19 Playwright MCP Vs CLI https://testgld.link/v9Hj8O6R 1:26 Cypress Observability https://testgld.link/FfRMrNr 2:33 Jev to make rigid tests flex https://testgld.link/AMnmwslU 3:49 Github AI Fuzzing https://testgld.link/nwJZUFTg 4:46 AI Unit Test aren't real Tests https://testgld.link/bVLKeYTq 5:59 Mutation Testing Skill https://testgld.link/LlGVXeQ7 7:05 New Book Signals & Levers https://testgld.link/1kboWcA8 8:06 Raindrop Follow the Money https://testgld.link/5IqQ9nyw 8:54 AI Miving Fast Flying Blind https://testgld.link/Rq5pt7u2
#195
September 21 · 9 min
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 Test Guild New Shows for the week of Sep 21st. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:23 IRL https://testgld.link/zqH6iQob 0:41 Automancer https://testgld.link/74w1RXMU 2:13 5 SDET projects https://testgld.link/ReBFoqrj 3:36 Intro to Jev https://testgld.link/8ZPA0Q1Y 4:30 Jev + Playwriight Loop https://testgld.link/nDG42opX 5:50 Book: How to Use AI in Testing https://testgld.link/hAxPkOSr 6:29 Claude CI example https://testgld.link/3bQds583 7:49 Gemini AI Hack https://testgld.link/2q6pq8AN 8:37 Scary AI Story breakdown https://testgld.link/yAIAgent
#194
August 24 · 8 min
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 let's do this. 0:00 0:16 ShiplightAI https://testgld.link/shiplightai 2:16 Vibium Release https://testgld.link/qgUM1j6v 3:09 Verefi https://testgld.link/pFZY7LzY 4:20 Test Reporter https://testgld.link/osigwkro 5:17 A Passing Test Is Not a Test Report https://testgld.link/3BWQH6D 6:21 Playwright + Pydantic AI https://testgld.link/4LJYZLHG 7:45 Tokern Usage https://testgld.link/tLTYzi6f
#193
August 17 · 9 min
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 episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of AUG 17. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:19 TestMu https://testgld.link/TestMu_conf26_social 1:07 Selenium https://testgld.link/2O4gtaSS 2:01 TaqWright https://www.taqwright.dev/ 3:22 Agentic Playwright https://testgld.link/iJSrelpu 4:26 Performance Show https://testgld.link/rbwl5XwN 5:46 Blacksmith 45m https://testgld.link/LUzF1NFa 6:48 PlaySensei https://testgld.link/ftTaHDYB 7:58 Powering Up QA Teams https://testgld.link/1U16h4jq
#192
August 10 · 9 min
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 coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:21 Joe Survey https://testgld.link/27data 1:18 Playwright MCP not a good idea? https://testgld.link/1ui9Fm6f 2:34 What do testers stand for? https://testgld.link/7d2SPg4c 3:42 Microsoft Testing Platform https://testgld.link/TwIjzEqa 4:23 Carbon https://testgld.link/kNWF2xqh 5:38 Opensource security harness https://testgld.link/mlZefMIM 6:26 Amikoo Worker https://testgld.link/WgeDy1zc 7:15 OWASP Top 10 for LLM https://testgld.link/BxXAJ5KZ 8:11 Game testing agent https://testgld.link/R9a1vcGf
July 27 · 9 min
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 Shows for the week of July 27th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:27 Aura SauceLabs https://testgld.link/request-demo 2:12 Bruno https://testgld.link/RQhuXdSZ 2:42 Playwright OpenTelementry https://testgld.link/eIXviquM 3:56 Flakyness.io https://testgld.link/KlfSk3i5 5:13 AgentiQA https://testgld.link/vGhxvw2k 6:12 Thorfinn https://testgld.link/M2tYnIII 7:26 Prompt, Agent, Loop https://testgld.link/Cpuy6jlM 8:44 HugginnFace Hack https://testgld.link/edb1IduQ
July 20 · 9 min
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 the week of July 20th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:21 Stop AI Test Cost https://testgld.link/wvvUskMr 1:33 Semantic Graph https://testgld.link/WG137ApD 2:55 Scout API https://testgld.link/ekw3oBAF 3:58 Varar https://var.oselvar.com/ 5:13 Testing NOT a Chore https://testgld.link/HVZyNx6J 6:25 Webinar of the Week https://testgld.link/H8JXZyv5 7:37 Testing AI book https://testgld.link/XJzWwD6S 8:46 IRL Thank You https://testguild.com/irl/
June 29 · 9 min
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 tester that found over 200 real bugs on its own? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild News Show for the week of June 29th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:22 Playwright 1.6.1 https://testgld.link/VN11WXR3 1:10 Newman Dashboard https://testgld.link/5cTwnWTk 2:10 7 layer framework https://testgld.link/32ZKB1P5 3:07 AI Selenium https://testgld.link/LNsR9G5s 4:08 Momentic https://testgld.link/35Uo2aJk 5:36 RFCP training https://testgld.link/J2sJZFaf 6:29 LinkedIn's QA Agent https://testgld.link/9J6fS3Ur 7:26 Athena AI https://testgld.link/l0JndtkF 8:22 OpenAI Daybreak https://testgld.link/D3dvUEy6
June 15 · 9 min
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 role? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of June 15th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:25 Kualitee https://testgld.link/Kualitee 1:21 AI needs testers https://testgld.link/RQ559AY5 2:53 Xcode 27 https://testgld.link/j9t2jbSU 4:04 OpenQA https://testgld.link/emqYop0t 5:02 Astra https://testgld.link/Ww5nxxia 6:05 Webinar of the Week https://testgld.link/YDu5WvBk 7:15 dt-evals https://testgld.link/oEskFLXG 8:08 k6 Mainframe Testing https://testgld.link/7kgQPB5s
June 8 · 9 min
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 this episode of the TestGuild News Show for the week of June 8th. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. Time Item URL 0:00 Welcome 0:23 Bugzy https://testgld.link/bugzy.io 1:42 Cypress Schema Validator https://testgld.link/4kiTMBpT 2:17 Playwright Step Decorator https://testgld.link/xyAmfhXV 3:24 Best Agent Skills https://testgld.link/S5XPgllE 4:33 Postman AI Enginner https://testgld.link/S5Ai7iW1 5:52 Follow the Money Harness https://testgld.link/XVQTZZWa 6:39 AWS AgentOps https://testgld.link/R4AbViTQ 7:36 Machine vs human https://testgld.link/6vay5bg8 8:22 Miasma Worm https://testgld.link/ZWLfmkYi
June 1 · 9 min
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 when AI is the one writing the code? Find out in this episode of the TestGuild News Show for the week of June 1st. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. Time Item URL 0:00 Intro 0:24 Testifly https://testgld.link/Testifly1 1:13 AI False Confident principle https://testgld.link/130UlI0w 2:46 Webinar of the Week https://testgld.link/qG5fosCF 3:38 AI Agent Cheating https://testgld.link/C40pSlfj 4:44 TDD for AI https://testgld.link/wvLSXtmu 6:10 Webwright https://testgld.link/Nc0BkWBu 7:29 AI Quality Manifesto https://testgld.link/SUXMTc4X 8:45 Claude Workflows https://testgld.link/gOp52O6T
May 11 · 9 min
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 week of May 10th in this episode of the TestGuild news show. Don't miss TestGuild IRL in Nashville and Atlanta: https://testguild.com/irl 0:00 Intro 0:22 IRL https://testguild.com/irl 0:44 Webdriver BiDi https://testgld.link/a38v7egQ 2:14 TestOrbit https://testgld.link/YASfxQBN 3:27 Webinar of the Week https://testgld.link/Iiferct3 4:29 Microcks API https://testgld.link/Xhaleah3 5:26 MCP Checker https://testgld.link/liTG0qz8 6:45 The Tests we Skipped https://testgld.link/R48WnZLh 7:56 Confidence Engineering https://testgld.link/ffJN6hhs 8:55 GitHub Down https://testgld.link/x7FND9sN
March 30 · 10 min
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? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in this week's Test Guild news show. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea and let's do this. Also check out TestGPT now: https://testguild.me/SWVelocityDemo 0:00 Joe Intro 0:24 TestGPT https://testguild.me/SWVelocityDemo 1:57 Skynet https://testgld.link/P7ZljsTY 2:57 AppClaw https://testgld.link/xckcho1u 4:46 Aluminium https://testgld.link/wheY7W8x 5:56 DiffBlue https://testgld.link/ezbnqWWL 7:03 Grab Wheel from AI https://testgld.link/RxbvKILH 8:24 Don't Trust AI output https://testgld.link/pQV0Ra0a
March 16 · 9 min
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 15th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 Intro 0:19 Sub to Newsletter https://testguild.me/newsub2026 0:27 Automation Debt https://testgld.link/K6aLUQUa 2:18 Webinar of the week https://testgld.link/laQgzmyp 3:18 WICK-ALLY https://testgld.link/A75nHS6X 4:00 Cypress trust Gate https://testgld.link/cVQl5ZAz 5:30 Harness Report https://testgld.link/0UlqqC6I 6:52 Code Evolve Or Mutate https://testgld.link/UVZM5qNu 8:23 Playwright AI Eco-system https://testgld.link/35YAII5B
March 9 · 9 min
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 week of March 8th. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:00 News Intro 0:20 IRL SF and LA https://testgld.link/jgKmx5H5 1:09 Testing AI https://testgld.link/NxtFjE9C 2:32 Cypress AI https://testgld.link/ct92fUUV 3:47 AI Tipping Point https://testgld.link/SIVYTWQR 5:12 Robot Replacement https://testgld.link/bPuGqZ9Q 6:34 Agent Engineer https://testgld.link/OViy65id 8:04 Playwright Agent https://testgld.link/mILp04WN 9:08 Jmeter https://testgld.link/w4l61bIt
February 23 · 10 min
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?" Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Feb 22. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:24 IRL Miami https://testgld.link/Y4OK7WCx 1:20 Webinar of the Week https://testgld.link/ayGCcoQg 2:23 WireMock GUI https://testgld.link/INyyHkS5 3:22 Playwright SalaX https://testgld.link/U566xT2K 5:01 Thunders MCP https://testgld.link/s0u5XMOF 6:28 Claude Code Update https://testgld.link/XJSQOHFa 7:24 AI Evals https://testgld.link/xRRezPlU 8:53 Leapwork Report https://testgld.link/fFYBRXky
February 2 · 9 min
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 Guild New Shows for the week of Feb 1st. 0:20 Automation Guild Reg https://testguild.me/ag26linkedin 1:03 A Test IS a Test https://testgld.link/1DJNLg8j 2:28 Delegate QA to AI https://testgld.link/PX1vM4L2 4:54 Orchestrix https://testgld.link/MeKAMpo6 6:06 Lovable Browser Testing https://testgld.link/cA4CPFgM 7:21 Playwright v1.58.0 https://testgld.link/lPwW4Yif 8:02 ROI of a Trace https://testgld.link/VMLw7zOT 8:58 Virtue AI https://testgld.link/OSQdgDUN
January 19 · 9 min
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, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. 0:20 Free BlinqIO https://testguild.me/blinqfree 1:50 Testing Pyramid for AI Agents https://testguild.me/2ml5ol 3:36 Playwriter https://testgld.link/WcZxRgH5 4:37 TestBlocks https://testgld.link/weP0jgWr 5:12 Webinar of the Week https://testgld.link/DvLMRA1H 6:13 Cowork: Claude Code https://testgld.link/E0UaWmzS 7:30 BlazeMeter MCP https://testgld.link/3jHztehn 8:32 performance and resilience https://testgld.link/LYRJeP1T
January 12 · 9 min
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. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this. time news link 0:25 Vibium Live https://testgld.link/UItHMeGU 1:11 2026 Trends https://testgld.link/R3hw8nO8 2:24 AI + Human Colab https://testgld.link/noBhgpVa 3:53 Playwright Serenity https://testgld.link/6ir3dKRI 4:37 TestMu AI https://testgld.link/L6zrdaip 5:55 Postman API https://testgld.link/RKKbMI9V 6:48 Playwright + AI USA https://testgld.link/unTYKLZW 8:30 AI Agent Security https://testgld.link/pLOu9UTl

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