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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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