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  5 AI Projects Every SDET Should Be Building, Jev , AI Agent Hacks and more TGNS195 21.09.2026 9min

  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  
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  Shiplight, New Vibium Release,Pydantic AI and Playwright and More TGNS194 24.08.2026 8min

   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  
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  Latest Selenium, TestMu, 45 Million for Code Validation and more TGNS193 17.08.2026 9min

  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  
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  Playwright MCP Cost, OWASP's Warning, and the Question Nobody's Asking TGNS192 10.08.2026 9min

  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  
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  Sauce Labs AURA, Playwright Tracing, Loop Engineering and More TGNS191 27.07.2026 9min

  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  
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  Testing AI, Duplicate Test Detection, and the Death of Cucumber TGNS190 20.07.2026 9min

  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/  
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  New Playwright, LinkedIn's AI Tester, AI for Selenium and More TGNS189 29.06.2026 9min

  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  
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  Is AI Coming for Testers, or Are You About to Win Big? TGNS188 15.06.2026 9min

  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  
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  From Vibe Slop to AgentOps, Postman AI, Bug Report to Release Sign Off and More! TGNS187 08.06.2026 9min

  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  
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  The AI Testing Trust Crisis: Verification Costs, Gamed Benchmarks, and What Comes Next TGNS186 01.06.2026 9min

  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  
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  MCP Servers, Microcks, and the New AI Testing Stack TGNS185 11.05.2026 9min

  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  
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  Testing in the Age of AI: What's Working, What's Not, and What's Next TGNS184 30.03.2026 10min

  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  
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  Automation Debt, AI Validation Crisis & Cypress Trust Gate Launch TGNS183 16.03.2026 9min

  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  
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  Playwright Repair Agents, Cypress AI Assertions & the Future of QE TGNS182 09.03.2026 9min

  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  
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  AI Testing Tools, WireMock GUI, and a Free Event Near You TGNS181 23.02.2026 10min

  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  
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  Playwright Updates, Why Your Automated Tests Might Be Lying to You, AI and More TGNS180 02.02.2026 9min

  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  
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  Testing Pyramid for AI Agents, Playwright Vibe Testing and More TGNS179 19.01.2026 9min

  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. 0:20 Free BlinqIO https://testguild.me/blinqfree 1:50 Testing Pyramid for AI Agents https://testguild.me/2ml5ol 3:36 Playwriter https://testgld.link/WcZxRgH5 4:37 TestBlocks https://testgld.link/weP0jgWr 5:12 Webinar of the Week https://testgld.link/DvLMRA1H 6:13 Cowork: Claude Code  https://testgld.link/E0UaWmzS 7:30 BlazeMeter MCP https://testgld.link/3jHztehn 8:32 performance and resilience  https://testgld.link/LYRJeP1T  
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  Vibium, Autonomous Testing, and the CORS Model for AI Agent Security TGNS178 12.01.2026 9min

  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  
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  Automation Guild Kickoff, AWS Nova, Karate v2, and AI Testing Reality and more TGNS177 08.12.2025 9min

  Which long-running testing event just announced registration for its 10th annual edition? Why are teams getting burned by something called VIBE syndrome, even when their AI-generated tests look solid on day one? Have you heard about the OWASP AI Testing Guide? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild news show for the week of Dec 7th. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea and let's do this! Links to News Mentioned in this Episode   0:20 Automation Guild open https://testgld.link/18T8l2tK 2:20 Serenity/JS 3.37 https://testgld.link/zPO3owRM 2:46 Amazon Nova https://testgld.link/VKU81PMd 4:05 Karate V2 https://testgld.link/0yaLI12K 5:13 AI Test Across the SDLC https://testgld.link/PxrUUCkv 6:31 OWASP AI Testing Guide https://testgld.link/z65w8mxQ 7:07 Webinar of the Week https://testguild.me/tsigma 7:36 VIBE or VICE https://testgld.link/RYuTxmJD  
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  Playwright + AI, Faster Migrations, Smarter Tests and More! TGNS176 02.12.2025 9min

  What tool is trying to give testers more control over flakiness and element changes—without rewriting everything? How do you migrate cypress test to playwright? Have you seen how to do Mobile App Testing with AI Agents? Find out in this episode of the Test Guild New Shows for the week of Nov 30th.  So, grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea, and let's do this.   Time News Title link 0:16 TestDriver Studio https://testguild.me/xerfrh 1:55 Migrate Cypress to Playwright  https://testgld.link/YbsqoUGB 2:41 Playwright + Goose https://testgld.link/VHiadxOD 4:24 Mobile App Testing with AI Agents https://testgld.link/8nvhKfPy 5:40 AI mobile app security testing https://testgld.link/MSetcg20 6:58 Qa needs to understand architecture https://testgld.link/quQ7n6t3 8:18 Webinar of the week https://testgld.link/GlVKIRWZ 9:26 ZAPTEST AI https://testguild.me/ZAPTESTNEWS