Playwright Email Tests Need Lease Expiry
A throwaway email address is useful in an end-to-end test because it keeps test mail away from real people. But an inbox that lives forever is not a…
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From Test Failure to Root Cause: Building an AI-Assisted Playwright Debugging Pipeline
Automated testing helps engineering teams catch bugs before they reach production, but identifying a failure is only half the job. The real challeng…
Playwright Email Tests Need a Message Claim
Email verification tests often fail for a reason that looks like timing, but is really identity. The test receives a message, finds a token, and ass…
Running Playwright in GitHub Actions: named checks, sharding, one merged report, and a flakiness policy
A test pipeline has one job: give the team a fast signal it can trust. When a pull request goes red, the author should know what broke without openi…
Regression-testing a skill on a real AI assistant: from 155 seconds a case to 10 minutes a run
The problem We build Mushare, a messaging network for AI assistants: you tell Meta's Muse "ask Alice whether Saturday or Sunday works", and Alice's…
A Playwright reporter that remembers your runs and briefs your coding assistant
A red test result starts an investigation. Which attempt failed? What did the assertion actually say? Was this test failing on earlier runs? Where i…
A no-network test needs a request that makes it fail
A browser-local CSV comparison prototype developed and tested with AI assistance needed a test for network activity after file selection. Its saved…
Playwright Retry Budgets Need a Failure Receipt
Retries are useful when a browser test meets a temporary network problem. They become harmful when every failure gets three more attempts with no re…
How To Design a Test Automation Strategy for a New Product Using Playwright ?
When a new product enters development, one of the first questions teams ask is: “How quickly can we automate the application?” I think the better qu…
The Feature Shipped. The UI Automation Didn’t.
How I’m using Jira, Figma, GitLab, and Playwright MCPs to make automation part of delivery—not the task that comes after it. “Can we finish testing…
Screenshot testing a design system with Playwright and Docker
I work on the Koobiq design system, which has component libraries for React and Angular . in this article I'll show how the screenshot tests in our…
Let's test dark mode and reduced motion
Originally published on anton.qa . A browser can report dark mode while the page stays white. Checking the setting alone would miss that broken page…
The Playwright Pie in the Sky: Solving for CI Blindspots in Microfrontend Architecture in a Crunch
At a previous job my product team introduced a business-critical microfrontend with module federation to our already bloated tech stack. As a qualit…
I Automated reCAPTCHA in Playwright and the Proxy Was the Real Fix
I spent three days trying to get a headless Playwright bot past reCAPTCHA. I assumed the captcha was the hard part. It wasn't — the IP reputation wa…
Integrating Playwright with CI/CD Using GitHub Actions
Automating Playwright tests locally is useful, but running them automatically in a CI/CD pipeline gives teams faster feedback on every code change.…
What Is Playwright? Install It in VS Code with Python (Beginner Guide)
Playwright is a modern browser automation and end-to-end testing tool. It lets you control Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit using code. If you are usin…
Why agent-browser and Playwright Work So Well Together
We recently added agent-browser to our UI evaluation workflow. The motivation was simple. A normal E2E test is great when we already know the path:…
Playwright email verification can pass for the wrong reason: six checks for a trustworthy test
We deliberately made an email-verification test finish on the wrong account. The page said Email verified . Playwright passed. Then we added an asse…
Testing email verification flows in Playwright without a mail server
Most signup tests die at the same line. The form submits, the app renders "check your email", and the test has nowhere to go. You can assert the con…
Give an AI Agent a Browser: From Instructions to Actions
Most browser automation examples start with selectors. Find the button, identify the input, write the script, and hope the page does not change befo…
Where Alpha Testing Fits in SDLC, Agile, and CI/CD
Alpha testing usually happens when a product is stable enough for realistic internal testing but has not yet reached external users. Its exact posit…
Headless browsers vs. SERP APIs: Why your Playwright scraper fails in production
Every developer who builds web scrapers goes through the same initial rite of passage. You need search engine data for an SEO tracking tool, an AI r…
Independent Test Cases: The Foundation of a Reliable Automation Test Suite
A reliable automated test suite should be able to run tests independently, in isolation, and in parallel . That sounds obvious, but one of the most…
Playwright API Testing: Why Your API and UI Tests Should Live Together
Playwright API testing uses the same framework, the same Playwright project/configuration, and the same test suite you already write UI tests in to…
I Never Multiplied Two Config Values — and Got SIGKILLed Every Day for Two Weeks
Every setting in my Instagram automation script was correct. The action caps were correct. The delays were correct. And the job died with SIGKILL ev…
Software Quality Metrics: A Practice Guide for Release Decisions
Software quality metrics only matter when they help a team make a better decision. A startup deciding whether to ship a checkout change needs differ…
A Unified KPI Framework for Automation Testing with Playwright & JavaScript
Measuring the impact of test automation goes beyond simple pass/fail ratios. To demonstrate real engineering excellence and business value, automati…
Your Proxy Is in Germany. The Rest of Your Client Isn't.
A reader on an earlier post described a scraper that was pulling Amazon listings through a rotating residential proxy and getting prices back in thr…
44 Thumbnails With the Wrong Hair Color: A One-Line Bug and the 300 Lines It Took to Pay It Back
Going from 100,000 yen a month as a college student to 1.2 million yen in monthly revenue didn't happen because the automation stack worked. It happ…
I Made Stefan Minchev Defend Every Decision in Our Playwright Framework
"If you wipe the test folder tomorrow, the architecture is still sitting right there. The tests are just the cherry on top." That's Stefan Minchev,…