TestGuild News Show: : Weekly Software Testing & DevOps News
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.
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  
Jun 29
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  
Jun 15
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  
Jun 8
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  
Jun 1
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  
May 11
9 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  
Mar 30
10 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  
Mar 16
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  
Mar 9
9 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  
Feb 23
10 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  
Feb 2
9 min
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