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TestGuild News Show: : Weekly Software Testing & DevOps News

TestGuild News Show: : Weekly Software Testing & DevOps News

Joe Colantonio 100 Episodes Oct 5, 2026

The TestGuild News Show is a weekly 10-minute podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio that rounds up the latest news in automation testing, DevOps, security, performance, and SRE. Each episode breaks down the most important updates, tools, and industry stories affecting software testers, automation engineers, DevOps practitioners, and SREs. It adds practical context on what matters and why, so listeners can start their week informed and focused. It is a fast, no-hype rundown aimed at anyone working in modern software testing and delivery.

Episodes

WebdriverIO, AI Agents, and 7 Questions to Ask Before Trusting AI Testing TGNS197
WebdriverIO, AI Agents, and 7 Questions to Ask Before Trusting AI Testing TGNS197 Oct 5, 2026 10:00 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  
Playwright MCP vs CLI, Mutation Testing and AI Agents Flying Blind
Playwright MCP vs CLI, Mutation Testing and AI Agents Flying Blind Sep 28, 2026 09:57 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 CL
5 AI Projects Every SDET Should Be Building, Jev , AI Agent Hacks and more TGNS195
5 AI Projects Every SDET Should Be Building, Jev , AI Agent Hacks and more TGNS195 Sep 21, 2026 09:04 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
Shiplight, New Vibium Release,Pydantic AI and Playwright and More TGNS194
Shiplight, New Vibium Release,Pydantic AI and Playwright and More TGNS194 Aug 24, 2026 08:40  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
Latest Selenium, TestMu, 45 Million for Code Validation and more TGNS193
Latest Selenium, TestMu, 45 Million for Code Validation and more TGNS193 Aug 17, 2026 09:15 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
Playwright MCP Cost, OWASP's Warning, and the Question Nobody's Asking TGNS192
Playwright MCP Cost, OWASP's Warning, and the Question Nobody's Asking TGNS192 Aug 10, 2026 09:29 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 Pl
Sauce Labs AURA, Playwright Tracing, Loop Engineering and More TGNS191
Sauce Labs AURA, Playwright Tracing, Loop Engineering and More TGNS191 Jul 27, 2026 09:46 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
Testing AI, Duplicate Test Detection, and the Death of Cucumber TGNS190
Testing AI, Duplicate Test Detection, and the Death of Cucumber TGNS190 Jul 20, 2026 09:34 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  
New Playwright, LinkedIn's AI Tester, AI for Selenium and More TGNS189
New Playwright, LinkedIn's AI Tester, AI for Selenium and More TGNS189 Jun 29, 2026 09:45 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 th
Is AI Coming for Testers, or Are You About to Win Big? TGNS188
Is AI Coming for Testers, or Are You About to Win Big? TGNS188 Jun 15, 2026 09:23 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 fa
From Vibe Slop to AgentOps, Postman AI, Bug Report to Release Sign Off and More! TGNS187
From Vibe Slop to AgentOps, Postman AI, Bug Report to Release Sign Off and More! TGNS187 Jun 8, 2026 09:11 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
The AI Testing Trust Crisis: Verification Costs, Gamed Benchmarks, and What Comes Next TGNS186
The AI Testing Trust Crisis: Verification Costs, Gamed Benchmarks, and What Comes Next TGNS186 Jun 1, 2026 09:43 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 o

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