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Playwright can test Chrome extensions. So why does my AI agent still need my help?
What happens when you let an AI write a browser extension I've been building Chrome extensions with AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, whatever. …
🚑 Creating a Self-Healing Automation Framework with Playwright
🧠 What is a Self-Healing Automation Framework? A self-healing test framework can automatically detect and recover from broken locators or test failure…
Email Verification Bots with Playwright
If you've ever tried to test your own signup flow, provision a demo account, or sign up for a vendor's API on behalf of your one-person company, you'v…
I Built an MCP Proxy That Reduces Playwright and Figma Context for AI Agents
Over the past few months I've been using Claude Code heavily with Playwright and Figma. At first everything worked well, but after longer sessions I s…
AI Test Automation Is Useful, but It Is Not Magic
AI has made test automation more exciting. It has also made it easier to fool ourselves. A generated test can look impressive in a demo. A self-healin…
7 AI Tools Every SDET Should Learn in 2026 — With Real Testing Use Cases
AI is changing software testing. But probably not in the way many QA engineers think. AI is not simply going to replace Selenium scripts, Playwright t…
Stop Manually Booking Appointments: Building an Autonomous AI Health Agent with Playwright and GPT-4o
We’ve all been there. You get a notification from your smartwatch saying your heart rate has been a bit funky, or your blood oxygen is dipping. Usuall…
A Green Frontend Pipeline Is Not the Same as a Safe Release
There is a particular kind of confidence that only a green CI pipeline can produce. The pull request is open. Unit tests pass. Browser tests pass. The…
The Browser Testing Problems That Appear After Your Test Suite Starts Growing
Most browser test suites do not fail because the team forgot how to write a click step. They fail because the system around the tests becomes more com…
Never forget to enter the Stern Grove lottery again!
It's summer in San Francisco, which means that every week I forget to enter the lottery for the free Stern Grove Music Festival . Solution? I did what…
The Playwright Playbook — Part 8: Playwright Meets AI — Agents, MCP & Self-Healing Tests
The Playwright Playbook — Part 8: Playwright Meets AI — Agents, MCP & Self-Healing Tests "AI doesn't replace QA engineers. It gives them superpowe…
The Playwright Playbook — Part 7: The CI/CD Setup Nobody Shows You
The Playwright Playbook — Part 7: The CI/CD Setup Nobody Shows You "A test suite that only runs on your laptop isn't a test suite. It's a hobby." Six …
The Playwright Playbook — Part 6: Debugging Like a Pro — Trace Viewer, Inspector & VS Code
The Playwright Playbook — Part 6: Debugging Like a Pro — Trace Viewer, Inspector & VS Code "A failing test at 2am in CI tells you what broke. Trac…
The Playwright Playbook — Part 3: Multi-User, Multi-Tab & Browser Context Testing
The Playwright Playbook — Part 3: Multi-User, Multi-Tab & Browser Context Testing "Most frameworks test one user at a time. Real apps don't work t…
Handling Shadow DOMs in Agentic Scraping Workflows
TL;DR Web components encapsulate UI and data inside Shadow DOMs, hiding it from standard parsers like BeautifulSoup and document.querySelector . To ex…
The Playwright Playbook — Part 2: Network Interception — The Complete Guide
The Playwright Playbook — Part 2: Network Interception — The Complete Guide "Your tests should own the network — not be at its mercy." In Part 1, we f…
How to Automate Publishing to CSDN and WeChat MP Using Playwright (When APIs Fail)
Overview Today's focus was on automating article publishing to CSDN and WeChat MP (微信公众号) using Playwright, after CSDN deprecated its public Open API.…
What Actually Breaks Test Automation After the Demo
Most test automation demos are too clean. The demo app is stable. The login flow is simple. The selectors are obvious. The data is predictable. CI is …
How We Optimized a Django Playwright Scraper to Save 60% on Rotating Proxy Bandwidth
As indie hackers and backend developers, we love using modern browser automation frameworks like Playwright to handle heavy, JavaScript-rendered dynam…
Capstone: A 100-Test Suite, End to End (Playwright + TypeScript, Ch.26)
This is where everything comes together. Over the course we built a layered Playwright TypeScript framework — fixtures, Page Objects, API + UI + integ…
Advanced: Network Mocking, Visual & Accessibility (Playwright + TypeScript, Ch.22)
Welcome to Part 6 . The framework is solid; now we add three powerful kinds of test that go beyond "click and assert text." Code for this chapter is t…
APIRequestContext Fundamentals (Playwright + TypeScript, Ch.11)
Welcome to Part 3 — API Testing . Until now the API was our setup helper. Now we test it as a first-class surface. API tests need no browser, so they …
Why a Test Automation Framework? (Playwright + TypeScript, Ch.1)
Welcome to the first chapter of a hands-on course where we build a production-grade Playwright + TypeScript automation framework — covering both API a…
I Built an ML Bitcoin Trading Bot — Then Proved It Had No Edge.
A case study in building crypto trading infrastructure and, more importantly, testing it honestly — including when the honest answer is "no edge." Wha…
I Built a One-Person AI QA Agency Using a Skill File and Local LLM
There is a specific failure mode in AI-assisted QA work that most tooling discussions skip entirely, and it shows up earliest when you are working sol…
I Cut My AI Test Automation Cost by 300x by Ditching Vision Models
I Cut My AI Test Automation Cost by 300x by Ditching Vision Models From $0.011 per step to $0.00004 — here's how I learned vision models are overkill …
Six Principles in Practice: How an Agentic E2E Found 11 Production Bugs in 8 Runs
Eight runs, eleven bugs I ran my E2E testing system on a production ecommerce platform eight times in a row – across five different business modules, …
Playwright is Powerful, But Managing It at Scale? That's Another Story
Playwright is Powerful, But Managing It at Scale? That's Another Story If you've worked with Playwright, you know it's an incredible tool for end-to-e…
How I Built a Screenshot API That Doesn't Suck
How I Built a Screenshot API That Developers Can Actually Trust After spending too many nights babysitting headless Chrome, I stopped trying to make a…