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Testing Made Easy: Debbie O'Brien Explains Playwright and its Game-Changing MCP Server
Debbie O'Brien discussed her experience with Playwright and its MCP Server. She highlighted the importance of keeping up with technology and not getting complacent, as new tools and features are constantly emerging. Debbie shared her own journey from being a JavaScript developer to becoming more comfortable working in .NET, citing AI's role in facilitating this transition.
TestGuild
TestGuild Automation Podcast - Playwright Expert Interview
Join Debbie O'Brien as she shares her expertise on Playwright testing, automation best practices, and the future of web application testing. Learn from real-world experiences and discover how to implement effective testing strategies in your development workflow.
Angular Show
Angular Show - Playwright Takes Center Stage
Debbie O'Brien joins the podcast to discuss how Playwright is revolutionizing the testing landscape. From its cross-browser capabilities to its developer-friendly APIs, learn why Playwright is becoming the go-to choice for modern web application testing.
.NET Rocks
Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien
What happens when AI comes to your web testing tool? While at Build, Carl and Richard talked to Debbie O'Brien about the latest features in Playwright, including Playwright MCP, the model control plane for Playwright capabilities. Debbie talks about using Playwright MCP to buy a table. Ask your LLM what tests should be written for your web page, and then ask it to write them.
Web Rush
Playwright with Debbie O’Brien
Debbie O’Brien talks with us about Playwright, writing tests with different languages, the Playwright VS Code extension, visual comparison testing, automating tests with Playwright, and migration tools to move to Playwright.
Legacy Rocks
Playwright with Debbie O’Brien and Max Schmitt
Microsoft invited the Legacy Code Rocks team to attend Microsoft Build Conference in the Seattle Convention Center. In this episode, we talk with Debbie O’Brien and Max Schmitt, both part of the Microsoft Playwright team..
QA Therapy
Web Testing with Playwright
Are you unsure of what framework to adopt for web testing? Tools such as Playwright, backed by Microsoft and a big community, are a great option.
PodRocket
Your testing questions answered
In our first-ever mailbag episode, testing experts Debbie O’Brien, Gleb Bahmutov, and Kent C. Dodds answer your questions about testing.
Steve Edwards
Web Testing And Automations With Playwright
Steve and Debbie talk about the Microsoft tool called “Playwright”. It is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. Moreover, they go into how the testing works, its useful features, and how it has more advantages than other testing solutions.
Betatalks
e2e Testing with Playwright and the use of codegen
What problems do Playwright and codegen solve? And what’s coming in the near future? Moreover, we elaborate on what Playwright exactly is; its best features and benefits, what it does differently, and how easily it integrates.
JS Party
All about Playwright
deep-dive on Playwright, an automation library for cross-browser end-to-end testing. Along the way, we learn Playwright’s unique value proposition, cool features like auto-waiting & the trace viewer, how it compares to Cypress & a lot more.
Compressed fm
e2e Testing with Playwright
Debbie discusses the importance of end to end testing as well as her work at Microsoft.
.NET Rocks
Testing Web Apps using Playwright
How do you test your web applications? Carl and Richard talk to Debbie O'Brien about Playwright, Microsoft's new open-source web application testing tool. Playwright lets you build tests in an array of languages, platforms, and browsers. Debbie talks about how you can build atomic tests that will survive new versions, and test independently of other features. And when tests fail, Playwright generates a PWA of the test run showing exactly where the test fails!
PodRocket
Component testing with Playwright
Debbie O’Brien, Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft and advocate for Playwright, comes to talk about how Playwright provides end-to-end testing, component testing, and more!
JS World, Passionate People
Transition from Nuxt to React
Debbie O’Brien is an expert as she advocates, gives talks on and helps with documentation on Nuxt. But she recently had to transition to the React world, which meant transitioning from being an expert in her field to a junior developer again. Stay tuned and learn how she navigated the change.
Scott Francis and Evan Payne
Ant-man and the Wasp - w/ Debbie O'Brien
We talk about starting out in the frontend, how to keep learning and growing, even while switching from one paradigm to another to another. We also talk a fair amount about the concepts behind Bit, getting an understanding of what problems it tries to solve and why.
Quique Fdez Guerra
Tu Código me suena
En este quinto episodio conoceremos a una persona que ha dado una charla en la Antartida, es dev advocate y dan 4 cinturón negro en taekwondo, además fue actriz y le encanta ir en bici.
Enjoy the Vue
Developer Advocacy from Nuxt to React
Transitioning from being a developer to team leader to working as a developer advocate, Debbie shares her passionate take on KPIs as well as the lessons she learned from the book Surrounded by Idiots. We delve into the traits that make up a good developer advocate and discuss why there\’s a need for companies to introduce the role of junior developer advocate. Later Debbie shares some of the learning challenges you\’ll experience as a developer advocate and how she adapted to learning React under high-pressure circumstances.
FSJam
Bit with Debbie O'Brien
In this episode we discuss workflows to enable sharing components across large codebases, how to make reusable frontend code, and techniques for navigating digital work environments.
Margo McCabe
Developer Advocacy, Navigating Tech, & Frontend Dev#
In SELECT* episode 6, Margo chats with Debbie O'Brien on her interesting journey into tech and across numerous roles, from leading a dev team into dev advocacy, and more! She shares a bit about her initial career shift and learning to code and what it's like to work at Bit.
Tracy Lee
Managing Component Architecture
In this episode, Tracy Lee interviews Debbie about bit.dev, a new open source tool for helping developer share components. We learn how to use Bit to manage component architecture, think in components, and how this can help you a build more scalable, reusable codebase and work across teams.
Lindsay Wardall, Steve Edwards
From Nuxt to React
Lindsay and Steve talk with Debbie about her new position, about what Bit is, and how they are bringing a new approach to component development. We also talk about how Debbie is having to learn React and ways we learn new frameworks and libraries.
Brian Douglas
Redefining JamStack
In episode 74 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Debbie O’Brien of NuxtJS. They discuss the use cases of NuxtJS, tactics for engaging open source communities, and the importance of rewarding project maintainers.
Christina Aldan
Speaking to an Online Audience
I caught up with Debbie last month to talk about bullying in the workplace, burnout, advancing your career, and tips for speaking to an online audience
Simon McManus
Whiskey Wednesday Mentorship
Finding a mentor when starting out as a beginner (and also after) is important and not always an easy task. In this episode, we will talk about everything you need to know when looking for a mentor, or becoming a mentor.
Lindsay Wardall, Steve Edwards
Nuxtify Everything
In this episode we discuss Nuxt becoming a company, the new component and content modules, and the static module. We also talk about enhancements to the Nuxt documentation, providing new ways to learn Nuxt and ways to integrate it with other technologies.
Simon McManus
CityJS Conference
A look at the upcoming online CityJS event, what to expect from an online conference and we get some insight from some of the speakers.
Bryan Robinson
NuxtJS and the JamStack
Debbie O'Brien on NuxtJS, web frameworks, creating your own framework and more
Daniel Primo
Desarollo en NuxtJS
Qué consiste mi labor profesional y como he crecido como desarrolladora a lo largo de los años (un proceso que cuento de forma muy divertida).
Aria Clark, Ben Hong, Tessa
Nuxt and Next Steps
Debbie tells us all about Nuxt. She even has an exciting announcement about a new release coming soon with Markdown in Nuxt that has the panel super excited! There is talk about WordPress Headless CMS and Wiziwig.
Chris Fritz, Ben Hong, Aria Clark
Contributing to Open Source
Becoming a programmer and how I got into Vue and contributing to open source projects. The panel talks about contributing to open source and how to get started contributing.
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