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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 - 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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
e2e Testing with Playwright
Debbie discusses the importance of end to end testing as well as her work at Microsoft.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
NuxtJS and the JamStack
Debbie O'Brien on NuxtJS, web frameworks, creating your own framework and more
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).
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.
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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