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TestGuild Automation Podcast

TestGuild Automation Podcast

Joe Colantonio 595 episodes Latest Jun 2, 2026

TestGuild Automation Podcast (formerly Test Talks) is a weekly podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio that focuses on software test automation. It covers news in the testing space, reviews books about automation, and interviews thought leaders in the field. The show aims to provide insights from successful software engineers and automation experts.

Episodes

The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantonio Jun 9, 2026 16:05 Everyone is talking about AI replacing testers, writing tests, and transforming software quality. But what if we're asking the wrong question? In this solo episode, Joe Colantonio shares a growing concern he's seen while traveling across the country for TestGuild IRL events: a decline in testing fundamentals at the exact moment AI hype is reaching a fever pitch. Drawing insights from Carissa Véliz
AI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev Velocity with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim Jun 2, 2026 35:23 AI coding tools promised to make development faster — and they delivered. But here's the problem nobody talks about enough: when you speed up coding, you don't eliminate the bottleneck in the SDLC. You just move it. And for most teams, it lands squarely in QA. In this episode, Joe sits down with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of QA.tech, to dig into how agentic AI is reshap
Maestro MCP, AI Mobile Testing That Fixes Its Own Tests with Leland Takamine May 19, 2026 38:10 What happens when AI agents can not only write mobile app code, but also validate their own work automatically? In this episode, I sit down with Maestro Co-founder and CEO Leland Takamine to explore one of the biggest shifts happening in software testing right now: agentic mobile testing. Leland shares how his team went from solving mobile performance testing challenges to building one of the fast
AI Testing Costs, How to Prevent Runaway Token Bills with Arthur Hicken May 12, 2026 38:39 AI-powered testing tools are exploding across software engineering teams… but so are the hidden costs. In this episode, Joe sits down with Arthur Hicken to unpack the growing problem of runaway AI token usage, unexpected LLM billing, and the operational risks of deploying AI agents into testing and DevOps pipelines. Inspired by Arthur's article on the emerging "Token Tax," this conversation explor
Stop Rewriting Tests: How to Add AI to Selenium and Playwright Without Starting Over with Alex Rodionov May 5, 2026 30:23 AI-powered testing tools promise faster automation and less maintenance, but most require teams to abandon their existing frameworks. In this episode, we explore Alumnium, an opensource AI-native end-to-end testing solution created by Alex Rodionov, an engineer at Airbnb and a tech lead on the Selenium project. Instead of replacing tools like Playwright or Selenium, Alumnium adds an AI layer on to
Claude AI Mobile Testing, Run Real Device Tests with AI with Frank Moyer and Chris Faulhaber Apr 28, 2026 31:00 AI is changing how we build and test software, but most teams are still struggling to turn AI-generated tests into real production value. Use code TESTGUILD3 try for yourself free now for 3 months: https://links.testguild.com/Kobiton In this episode, we break down what actually works when it comes to AI-powered mobile test automation, especially when running tests on real devices not simulators fr
AI Testing Is Breaking Your Pipeline. Fix Quality Before It's Too Late with Eric Minick Apr 15, 2026 29:38 AI coding tools are helping teams move faster than ever, but there's a hidden cost. In this episode, we break down new insights from a DevOps industry report revealing a growing "velocity paradox": teams are shipping more code, but experiencing more failures, rollbacks, and burnout. You'll discover why AI adoption is heavily skewed toward coding, but not testing, pipelines, or observability, and h
Scaling Quality Engineering: How to Deliver Faster Across Global Teams with Sunita McCoy Apr 7, 2026 33:59 AI is changing how we build and test software, but most teams are struggling to turn that promise into real results. In this episode, we break down what it actually takes to scale quality engineering across global teams without creating bottlenecks, burnout, or broken processes. You'll learn: why most test automation and transformation initiatives fail how to separate AI hype from reality what hi
Mobile Test Automation is Broken. Here's How QApilot Fixes It with Aditya Challa Mar 31, 2026 37:53 Mobile test automation is still one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern software delivery. In this interview, QApilot's Co-founder Aditya Challa explains why most AI testing approaches fail and how to fix them. Learn more about QApilot: https://links.testguild.com/flutterqa If your mobile tests are flaky, slow, or hard to trust, you're not alone. Most teams are trying to apply LLM-based AI to pro
AI Testing: How Solo Testers Stay Confident in Releases with Christine Pinto Mar 25, 2026 44:49 Are you the only tester on your team—and expected to ensure quality across everything? In this episode, we break down the growing challenge of solo QA testing in the age of AI-driven development—where code is generated faster than ever, but confidence hasn't caught up. Christine Pinto shares real-world insights from her experience as a solo tester and now as a founder building tools designed to he
AI Testing from Production Logs: Generate Smarter Regression Tests with Tanvi Mittal Mar 17, 2026 27:47 What if your production logs could automatically generate new test cases? In this episode, Joe Colantonio sits down with Tanvi Mittal to break down how AI-powered log mining is changing the way teams approach software testing, quality engineering, and DevOps. Most teams ignore production logs or use them only for debugging. But those logs contain real user behavior, real failures, and real edge ca
AI Testing: How to Ensure Quality in Non-Deterministic Systems with Adam Sandman Mar 10, 2026 43:20 How do you ensure software quality when the system you're testing doesn't give the same output twice? Go to https://links.testguild.com/inflectra and start your free 30-day trial, no credit card, no contract required. That's the core challenge facing every QA team building or testing AI-powered applications today and it's breaking all the rules we've relied on for decades. In this episode of the T

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