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Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien
.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.

Playwright with Debbie O’Brien
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.

Web Testing And Automations With Playwright
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.

All about Playwright
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.

Testing Web Apps using Playwright
.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!

Component testing with Playwright
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!

Transition from Nuxt to React
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.

Ant-man and the Wasp - w/ Debbie O'Brien
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.

Tu Código me suena
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.

Developer Advocacy from Nuxt to React
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.

Bit with Debbie O'Brien
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.

Developer Advocacy, Navigating Tech, & Frontend Dev#
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.

Managing Component Architecture
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.

From Nuxt to React
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.

Redefining JamStack
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.

Speaking to an Online Audience
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

Whiskey Wednesday Mentorship
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.

Nuxtify Everything
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.

CityJS Conference
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.

Desarollo en NuxtJS
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).

Nuxt and Next Steps
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.

Contributing to Open Source
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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