TestGuild News Show: : Weekly Software Testing & DevOps News

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.

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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.

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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

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

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

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

What if Playwright tests could be created, not coded — and what if that tool just removed the paywall to prove it?

Are you testing AI agents all wrong?

Could a Chrome extension replace your entire Playwright setup?

Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Jan 18.

So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this.

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Did Jason Huggins just make selectors obsolete?

What major test platform just rebranded around autonomous AI agents?

And what if today's AI agents are repeating the same security mistakes the web made decades ago?

Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Jan 12th 2026. So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this.

time news link 0:25 Vibium Live https://testgld.link/UItHMeGU 1:11 2026 Trends https://testgld.link/R3hw8nO8 2:24 AI + Human Colab https://testgld.link/noBhgpVa 3:53 Playwright Serenity https://testgld.link/6ir3dKRI 4:37 TestMu AI https://testgld.link/L6zrdaip 5:55 Postman API https://testgld.link/RKKbMI9V 6:48 Playwright + AI USA https://testgld.link/unTYKLZW 8:30 AI Agent Security https://testgld.link/pLOu9UTl