HeyJaredTestGuild Automation Podcast
TestGuild Automation Podcast (formally Test Talks) is a weekly podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio, which geeks out on all things software test automation.
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AI Agents Passed the Tests. Real Devices Didn't. with Nick Metcalfe (opens the original)
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Cloud 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, and you lose visibility into what's actually happening when a test fails. In this episode, Nick Metcalfe, Head of Technical Sales Engineering at Cambrionix, joins Joe to explain why more testing teams are bringing their device labs in house. Nick shares how one team was quoted roughly a million dollars a month to outsour
AI Testing Reality Check: What 13 Founders Refuse to Automate with Joe Colantonio (opens the original)
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I 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 tools right now. Not one said yes. This episode is my session from the Testear.la 2026 conference, built entirely from twelve months of interviews on this show with the people actually building this technology, including Applitools, Maestro, Bright Security, QA.tech, Cucumber, Ito, and the lead of the Selenium project. In i
How to Stay Irreplaceable When Agents Write Your Tests with Jonathon Wright (opens the original)
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Is 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 position. Jonathon Wright has spent thirty years in test automation, going all the way back to WinRunner. He now runs thirty AI agents across twelve screens, he sat with Gartner for their research on agentic platforms, and he says the last six months changed the job more than the previous three decades combined. We get into
AI Performance Testing: How to Scale Agentic AI with Kandasamy Selvaraj (opens the original)
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Everything 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 sits down with Kandasamy Selvaraj, Principal Architect and author of the free book Rethinking Performance Engineering for Agentic AI, to unpack what it really takes to move an AI agent from a working demo to an enterprise system handling millions of conversations per hour. Checkout his free book: https://leanpub.com/agentic
AI Testing Is Bigger Than You Think, 5 Areas Testers Must Own with Swati Seela (opens the original)
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Most 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 do we actually mean? What do you think? Take our TestGuild State of Test Automation Survey now: https://testgld.link/27data In this episode, Swati walks through the AI Testing Landscape, a practical framework she presented at CAST 2026 that breaks AI testing into five overlapping areas: AI assisted testing, AI evaluatio
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