<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Automation Testing Podcast • Test Guild Podcast</title><description>The TestGuild Automation Podcast is the longest-running weekly show dedicated to all things software &lt;strong&gt;test automation&lt;/strong&gt;. Hosted by Joe Colantonio, this podcast has been delivering actionable insights, expert interviews, and cutting-edge discussions since 2014—making it an essential resource for testers, automation engineers, and software professionals worldwide.</description><link>https://testguild.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantonio</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a591-joe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a591-joe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: Everyone is talking about AI replacing testers, writing tests, and transforming software quality. But what if we&amp;#8217;re [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:23:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev Velocity with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a590-vilhelm/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a590-vilhelm/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI coding tools promised to make development faster — and they delivered. But here&amp;#8217;s the problem nobody [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:02:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Maestro MCP, AI Mobile Testing That Fixes Its Own Tests</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a589-maestro-mcp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a589-maestro-mcp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: What happens when AI agents can not only write mobile app code, but also validate their own [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:19:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Testing Costs, How to Prevent Runaway Token Bills with Arthur Hicken</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a588-arthur-token-tax-ai-testing-costs-how-to-prevent-runaway-token-bills-with-arthur-hicken/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a588-arthur-token-tax-ai-testing-costs-how-to-prevent-runaway-token-bills-with-arthur-hicken/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI-powered testing tools are exploding across software engineering teams… but so are the hidden costs. In this [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 02:24:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stop Rewriting Tests: How to Add AI to Selenium and Playwright Without Starting Over</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a587-alex-alumnium-stop-rewriting-tests-how-to-add-ai-to-selenium-and-playwright-without-starting-over/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a587-alex-alumnium-stop-rewriting-tests-how-to-add-ai-to-selenium-and-playwright-without-starting-over/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI-powered testing tools promise faster automation and less maintenance, but most require teams to abandon their existing [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 02:27:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claude AI Mobile Testing, Run Real Device Tests with AI</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a586-claude-ai-mobile-testing-run-real-device-tests-with-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a586-claude-ai-mobile-testing-run-real-device-tests-with-ai/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI is changing how we build and test software,but most teams are still struggling to turn AI-generated [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:19:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Testing Is Breaking Your Pipeline (Fix Quality)</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a585-quality-velocity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a585-quality-velocity/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI coding tools are helping teams move faster than ever, but there’s a hidden cost. In this [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:29:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scaling Quality Engineering: How to Deliver Faster Across Global Teams</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a584-scaling-quality-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a584-scaling-quality-engineering/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: Sunita McCoy has walked into organizations where leadership says &amp;#8220;we want a transformation&amp;#8221; and then has zero [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:59:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mobile Test Automation is Broken. Here’s How QApilot Fixes It with Aditya Challa</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a583-aditya/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a583-aditya/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: Mobile test automation is still one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern software delivery. In this interview, [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:38:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Testing: How Solo Testers Stay Confident in Releases with Christine Pinto</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a582-christine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a582-christine/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: Are you the only tester on your team—and expected to ensure quality across everything? In this episode, [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:37:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Testing from Production Logs: Generate Smarter Regression Tests with Tanvi Mittal</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a581-tanvi/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a581-tanvi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: What if your production logs could automatically generate new test cases? In this episode, Joe Colantonio sits [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:14:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Testing: How to Ensure Quality in Non-Deterministic Systems</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a580-adam/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a580-adam/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;AI Testing: How to Ensure Quality in Non-Deterministic Systems Episode How do you ensure software quality when the system you&amp;#8217;re [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:09:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Test Automation Tools That Scale: From Zero to 1.6M Users with Sanjay Kumar</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a579-sanjay/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a579-sanjay/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: What does it really take to build a test automation tool that millions of testers rely on, [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:58:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Test Automation: Ship Twice as Fast with 10x Coverage with Karim Jouini</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a578-karim/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a578-karim/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI test automation is evolving fast — but most tools still generate brittle code that breaks with [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:10:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Performance Testing with AI with Akash Thakur</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a577-akash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a577-akash/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: Is traditional performance testing becoming obsolete? In this episode, performance engineering expert Akash Thakur shares why AI [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:01:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Spec2TestAI: Stop Defects Before They Reach Production with Missy Trumpler</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a576-missy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a576-missy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: Most teams find defects after the damage is done — during regression, late-stage testing, or production incidents. [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:16:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Top 8 Automation Testing Trends for 2026 with Joe Colantonio</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a574-joe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a574-joe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI testing is everywhere — but clarity isn’t. In this episode, Joe Colantonio breaks down the real [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:10:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Locust Performance Testing with AI and Observability with Lars Holmberg</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a575-lars/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a575-lars/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: Performance testing often fails for one simple reason: teams can’t see where the slowdown actually happens. In [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:27:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Automation Testing Podcast 2026: New Schedule, Events, Discounts with Joe Colantonio</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a573-joe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a573-joe/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: This is a special end-of-year episode of the Automation Testing Podcast. With family in town and a [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:57:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Testing LLMs &amp; RAG: What Testers Must Validate with Imran Ali</title><link>https://testguild.com/podcast/a572-imran/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://testguild.com/podcast/a572-imran/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;About This Episode: AI is transforming how software is built, but testing AI systems requires an entirely new mindset. Don&amp;#8217;t [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;
</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>