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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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August 17, 2026Episode 1939 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

August 10, 2026Episode 1929 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, 20269 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, 20269 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, 20269 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, 20269 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, 20269 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, 20269 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, 20269 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, 202610 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