TestGuild Automation Podcast
by Joe Colantonio
Latest episode
Playwright at Scale: Run 500 Tests in Minutes
Playwright at Scale: Run 500 Tests in Minutes
About this podcast
TestGuild Automation Podcast (formally Test Talks) is a weekly podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio, which geeks out on all things software test automation. TestGuild Automation covers news found in the testing space, reviews books about automation, and speaks with some of the thought leaders in the test automation field. We'll aim to interview some of today's most successful and inspiring software engineers, and test automation thought leaders.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 616 episodes
- Playwright at Scale: Run 500 Tests in Minutes · 37 min · Episode 611Is your Playwright suite slowing you down instead of speeding you up? In this episode, Oliver Stenbom, cofounder of Endform, shares what really happens when teams try to scale…
- How to Prove Your Release Is Ready When AI Writes the Code with Ashwin Kondapalli · 39 min · Episode 610How to Prove Your Release Is Ready When AI Writes the Code? Can you prove your software is ready to ship, or does that answer still depend on a meeting and a spreadsheet? Want to…
- Why Your AI Tests Pass When Your Features Fail with Donovan Brady · 49 min · Episode 609Why Your AI Tests Pass When Your Features Fail? Donovan Brady of Leapwork shows how to make AI tests traceable, cheaper to run, and safe to self-heal. 👉 Try Leapwork Play (free…
- Scary Test Automation POCs Made Easy: Halloween Special With Paul Grossman · 42 min · Episode 604Running a proof of concept on test automation tools can feel like a horror movie. Vendors promise everything, your boss wants answers fast, and you don't know what you don't…
- Locust and Azure Load Testing: Create and Debug Load Tests with AI with Lars Holmberg and Abhinav Premsekhar · 36 min · Episode 607Performance testing has never been easier to start, or more important to get right. As teams ship more AI generated code, performance problems are slipping through, and they tend…
- AI Agents Passed the Tests. Real Devices Didn't. with Nick Metcalfe · 41 min · Episode 606Cloud device farms make it easy to get started with real device testing. But what happens when you need to scale? Costs climb fast, you wait in a queue for the devices you need…
- AI Testing Reality Check: What 13 Founders Refuse to Automate with Joe Colantonio · 30 min · Episode 605I asked thirteen people inside AI testing one question: can AI test your software for you? Founders, CTOs, project leads, and quality leaders, many of them selling AI testing…
- How to Stay Irreplaceable When Agents Write Your Tests with Jonathon Wright · 34 min · Episode 604Is AI going to replace software testers, or make them more valuable than they have ever been? Jonathon Wright says both, and in this episode he does not back down from either…
- AI Performance Testing: How to Scale Agentic AI with Kandasamy Selvaraj · 44 min · Episode 603Everything you knew about performance testing changes when the system you're testing is non deterministic. In this episode of the TestGuild Automation Podcast, Joe Colantonio…
- AI Testing Is Bigger Than You Think, 5 Areas Testers Must Own with Swati Seela · 38 min · Episode 602Most testers are stuck arguing about whether AI is coming for their jobs. Swati Seela thinks that's a distraction from a much more useful question: when we say "AI testing," what…
- Why IoT Testing Proves Manual Testing Never Died with Oleksii Cherkashyn · 36 min · Episode 601Manual testing never died. IoT is the proof. In this episode, Joe Colantonio talks with Oleksii Cherkashyn, a QA team lead, automation engineer, and IoT testing specialist who…
- Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in Non-Deterministic Systems with Jason Arbon · 53 min · Episode 600In this episode 600 of the TestGuild Automation Podcast, Joe Colantonio talks with Jason Arbon, founder of Testers.ai, Jank.AI and IcebergQA and author of the new book Testing…
- Playwright With AI: How to Automate Tests Without Shipping AI Slop with Andrew Knight · 38 min · Episode 599Your developers just got supercharged by AI coding agents. Your test coverage did not. So how do you keep quality high when product code is shipping faster than any test team can…
- Test Automation Won't Save Your QA Career, but These Skills Will with Keith Klain · 45 min · Episode 598Keith Klain has spent 25+ years leading enterprise quality programs in financial services and is one of the testing industry's most respected voices. In this episode, he joins…
- AI Testing Strategy: Stop Being a Cost Center, Start Protecting Revenue with Nandini Srinivasan · 37 min · Episode 597Nandini Srinivasan has spent 25 years in the quality industry and leads a global QA organization of over 150 engineers across the US, Canada, India, and Pakistan. In this…
- How to Move from Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering in Testing with Matt Wynne · 40 minMatt Wynne, co-creator of Cucumber and BDD practitioner, joins Joe for the first time in over a decade to talk about what two years inside a Silicon Valley AI startup taught him…
- Agentic Engineering for Testers: How to Automate Your Way to the Top with Amit Rawat · 44 minAmit Rawat is an agentic engineer who spent two decades in QA before shifting fully into building AI agents. He's the creator of PromptWright, a desktop tool that turns natural…
- How to Test Any API Without Documentation with Liudas Jankauskas · 23 minMost API testing stops at the happy path. The problem is that the bugs that actually hurt you in production are sitting in everything many testers skip, like the boundary values…
- Your AI Code Review Is Lying to You (Here's the Fix) with Evan Marshall · 36 minYour AI code review tools read the diff. They stare at your code. But they never actually run it. So the bugs that only show up at runtime, the broken user flows, the bad query…
- AI QA Agents Explained: How Amikoo Helps Testers with Ivan Barajas Vargas · 35 minWhat happens to QA when AI is writing ten times more code than your team can test? That is the exact problem Ivan Barajas Vargas set out to solve with Amikoo, a purpose-built AI…
- The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantonio · 16 minEveryone is talking about AI replacing testers, writing tests, and transforming software quality. But what if we're asking the wrong question? In this solo episode, Joe…
- AI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev Velocity with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim · 35 minAI coding tools promised to make development faster — and they delivered. But here's the problem nobody talks about enough: when you speed up coding, you don't eliminate the…
- Maestro MCP, AI Mobile Testing That Fixes Its Own Tests with Leland Takamine · 38 minWhat happens when AI agents can not only write mobile app code, but also validate their own work automatically? In this episode, I sit down with Maestro Co-founder and CEO Leland…
- AI Testing Costs, How to Prevent Runaway Token Bills with Arthur Hicken · 39 minAI-powered testing tools are exploding across software engineering teams… but so are the hidden costs. In this episode, Joe sits down with Arthur Hicken to unpack the growing…
- Stop Rewriting Tests: How to Add AI to Selenium and Playwright Without Starting Over with Alex Rodionov · 30 minAI-powered testing tools promise faster automation and less maintenance, but most require teams to abandon their existing frameworks. In this episode, we explore Alumnium, an…
- Claude AI Mobile Testing, Run Real Device Tests with AI with Frank Moyer and Chris Faulhaber · 31 minAI is changing how we build and test software, but most teams are still struggling to turn AI-generated tests into real production value. Use code TESTGUILD3 try for yourself…
- AI Testing Is Breaking Your Pipeline. Fix Quality Before It's Too Late with Eric Minick · 30 minAI coding tools are helping teams move faster than ever, but there's a hidden cost. In this episode, we break down new insights from a DevOps industry report revealing a growing…
- Scaling Quality Engineering: How to Deliver Faster Across Global Teams with Sunita McCoy · 34 minAI is changing how we build and test software, but most teams are struggling to turn that promise into real results. In this episode, we break down what it actually takes to…
- Mobile Test Automation is Broken. Here's How QApilot Fixes It with Aditya Challa · 38 min · Episode 583Mobile test automation is still one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern software delivery. In this interview, QApilot's Co-founder Aditya Challa explains why most AI testing…
- AI Testing: How Solo Testers Stay Confident in Releases with Christine Pinto · 45 minAre you the only tester on your team—and expected to ensure quality across everything? In this episode, we break down the growing challenge of solo QA testing in the age of…
- AI Testing from Production Logs: Generate Smarter Regression Tests with Tanvi Mittal · 28 minWhat if your production logs could automatically generate new test cases? In this episode, Joe Colantonio sits down with Tanvi Mittal to break down how AI-powered log mining is…
- AI Testing: How to Ensure Quality in Non-Deterministic Systems with Adam Sandman · 43 min · Episode 580How do you ensure software quality when the system you're testing doesn't give the same output twice? Go to https://links.testguild.com/inflectra and start your free 30-day…
- Test Automation Tools That Scale: From Zero to 1.6M Users with Sanjay Kumar · 30 minWhat does it really take to build a test automation tool that millions of testers rely on, without venture capital, paid ads, or a massive team? In this episode, we explore how…
- AI Test Automation: Ship Twice as Fast with 10x Coverage with Karim Jouini · 42 minAI test automation is evolving fast — but most tools still generate brittle code that breaks with every UI change. See it for yourself now: https://links.testguild.com/Thunders…
- Performance Testing with AI w/ Akash Thakur · 27 minIs traditional performance testing becoming obsolete? In this episode, performance engineering expert Akash Thakur shares why AI is fundamentally transforming load testing…
- Spec2TestAI: Stop Defects Before They Reach Production with Missy Trumpler · 35 minMost teams find defects after the damage is done — during regression, late-stage testing, or production incidents. That's expensive, stressful, and completely avoidable. Try…
- Locust Performance Testing with AI and Observability with Lars Holmberg · 30 minPerformance testing often fails for one simple reason: teams can't see where the slowdown actually happens. In this episode, we explore Locust load testing and why Python-based…
- Top 8 Automation Testing Trends for 2026 with Joe Colantonio · 12 minAI testing is everywhere — but clarity isn't. In this episode, Joe Colantonio breaks down the real test automation trends for 2026, based on data from 40,000+ testers, 510 live…
- Automation Testing Podcast 2026: New Schedule, Events, Discounts with Joe Colantonio · 2 minThis is a special end-of-year episode of the Automation Testing Podcast. With family in town and a busy holiday season, Joe didn't want to skip a week without checking in and…
- AI Testing LLMs & RAG: What Testers Must Validate with Imran Ali · 33 minAI is transforming how software is built, but testing AI systems requires an entirely new mindset. Don't miss AutomationGuild 2026 - Register Now: https://testguild.me/podag26…
- AI Codebase Discovery for Testers with Ben Fellows · 44 minWhat if understanding your codebase was no longer a blocker for great testing? Most testers were trained to work around the code — clicking through UIs, guessing selectors, and…
- Gatling Studio: Start Performance Testing in Minutes (No Expertise Required) with Shaun Brown and Stephane Landelle · 41 minPerformance testing has traditionally been one of the hardest parts of QA,slow onboarding, complex scripting, difficult debugging, and too many late-stage surprises. Try Gatling…
- AI-Driven Manual Regression: Test Only What Truly Matters With Wilhelm Haaker and Daniel Garay · 39 minManual regression testing isn't going away—yet most teams still struggle with deciding what actually needs to be retested in fast release cycles. See how AI can help your manual…
- Top Automation Guild Survey Insights for 2026 with Joe Colantonio · 9 minAutomation Guild turns 10 this year, and the 2026 survey revealed some of the strongest trends and signals the testing community has ever shared. Register now…
- Testing AI Vibe Coding: Stop Vulnerabilities Early with Sarit Tager · 32 minAI is accelerating software delivery, but it's also introducing new security risks that most developers and automation engineers never see coming. In this episode, we explore how…
- 4 Free TestGuild Tools Every Tester Should Be Using with Joe Colantonio · 17 minIn this solo episode, Joe Colantonio shares four powerful free TestGuild tools designed to help testers, automation engineers, and QA leaders work smarter. Discover how to…
- AI Testing Made Trustworthy using FizzBee · 32 minAs AI tools like Copilot, Claude, and Cursor start writing more of our code, the biggest challenge isn't generating software — it's trusting it. In this episode, JP…
- Test Automation Optimus Prime Halloween Special · 42 minIn this Halloween special, Joe Colantonio and Paul Grossman discuss the evolution of automation testing, focusing on the integration of AI tools, project management strategies…
- Playwright AI Vibe Testing: True Self-healing Tests with Vasusen Patil · 41 minFlaky Playwright tests got you down? Discover Vibe Testing, a new AI-driven approach that lets Playwright tests understand design intent, adapt to UI changes, and self-heal…
- Playwright Testing: How to Make UI and API Tests 10x Faster with Naeem Malik · 28 minDid you know that Playwright offers an elegant, unified framework that seamlessly integrates both UI and API testing within a single language and test runner? Don't miss the…
