From Test Failure to Root Cause: Building an AI-Assisted Playwright Debugging Pipeline
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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.
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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…
Why agent-browser and Playwright Work So Well Together
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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…
Я написал игру так, что её правила не знают про Three.js. Объясняю зачем
В моей игре доменный слой не знает, что существует Three.js. И Rapier. И DOM. Звучит как оверинжиниринг для платформера, где уровень проходится за п…
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
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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,…
End-to-End Setup Guide: Integrating Playwright + Cucumber with Harness CI
Integrating end-to-end (E2E) automation suites into enterprise CI/CD pipelines requires robust reporting, dynamic execution controls, and seamless a…
How to Improve Playwright Test Coverage Using Agent Context
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Cross-Browser Testing Tools: The 2026 Landscape & Decision Framework
Theme: Cross-Browser Testing Tools — The 2026 Landscape 🎯 Deep Dive: Cross-Browser Testing Tools — Which One Actually Fits Your Team? Stop guessing.…
Solution to Challenge 3 - Visual Testing with API Mocking
Challenge #3 is done — here's my solution to Challenge 3: Visual Testing with API Mocking I'm not a big fan of mock APIs for end-to-end tests, but w…
Building an Efficient Authentication Pipeline with ASP.NET Core, Playwright and Token Caching
Authentication is one of the most important parts of any application that integrates with external services. While many modern platforms expose OAut…
AI Can Write the Test. Your Team Owns the Maintenance
AI has made the first hour of test automation dramatically cheaper. Describe a workflow, paste a requirement, or point an agent at an application, a…
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 failu…
Email Verification Bots with Playwright
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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…
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-heal…
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…
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. Usua…
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. T…
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 c…
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 wh…
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 superpo…