We audited 14 side-project launches. Zero critical bugs, same quiet flaws.
Originally published on the Prufa blog . Five days ago we audited 49 Show HN launches and found that 78% had a critical bug on day one. This week we p…
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Automation Before Automation (ABA) — A Missing Phase in Modern Testing?
Software testing is usually described in two large categories: exploratory testing and automated testing. Exploratory testing is about investigation a…
How to Use DisposableEmail Safely (WithoutLocking Yourself Out)
Disposable email feels like a cheat code. Hand the form an address that exists for an hour, get whatever you came for, walk away. No spam. No mailing …
Quick Share, AirDrop, and Android screen mirroring are not the same workflow
Quick Share and AirDrop-style sharing are useful because they solve a simple problem: a file needs to move from one device to another. That file might…
Web Testing in 2026 Is Less About Tools and More About Trust
Web testing has become a lot harder to describe in one sentence. It used to be easier to say, “We run some Selenium tests,” or “We use Cypress for fro…
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 …
We audited 49 Show HN launches. 38 had a critical bug on day one.
Originally published on the Prufa blog . In June 2026 we pointed Prufa's free audit at 50 products that had just launched on Show HN — every launch fr…
Frontend Testing in 2026: The Problems That Actually Break Your UI
Frontend testing has become weirdly broad. A few years ago, a lot of teams treated it as "write some Cypress tests" or "run Selenium in CI." That was …
Test automation in 2026 is in a weird place.
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How to Compare Testing Tools Without Getting Fooled by Feature Checklists
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A practical playbook for choosing browser automation and cross-browser testing tools
If your goal is faster releases with fewer flaky failures, the tool choice matters less than the testing strategy behind it. Teams usually start by as…
How Do Enterprise QA Platforms Handle Self-Healing Tests When APIs Change Frequently
A practical look at the strategies, tools, and trade-offs behind resilient API test automation and why test data management is just as important as th…
10 Playwright Tips That Will Change How You Write Tests
I remember the first week I seriously used Playwright. I was migrating a 200-test WDIO suite. I thought it would take two weeks. It took four days. No…
WDIO vs Playwright — An Honest Comparison from Someone Who Has Used Both
I have a confession. For a long time I was a WDIO loyalist. I had built entire frameworks on it, trained teammates on it, and defended it in every "wh…
Should AI Help Write the Tests, or Change What You Test?
You just merged an AI-assisted feature branch, the code review looks clean, and the app works in your local smoke test. Now comes the real question: d…
Why Your Test Suite Starts Failing Six Months Later, and What to Do About It
The failure starts small A test that passes 200 times and fails once does not feel urgent. Usually it gets retried, marked flaky, or blamed on CI nois…
Manual Testing: How We Make Sure Software Works Correctly
Have you ever played a video game that suddenly stopped working? Or used an app that showed the wrong answer? That happens when software is not tested…
6 lessons on testing AI features
I spent the last few years running QA, across teams. The same structured process worked, but only because the features going through it were determini…
Git для QA Engineer
Git — один из базовых инструментов современного QA Engineer. Даже если тестировщик не пишет production-код, ему всё равно приходится работать с репози…
Why Traditional QA Fails Browser-Based Casino Games
Modern QA automation is extremely effective when testing traditional web applications. APIs can be validated reliably, user flows can be scripted with…
Testing a LiveView App with Playwright: Fixing Navigation Timeouts
I was building a Playwright suite against a Phoenix LiveView app for the first time. Tests ran fine in isolation. Overnight, the full suite timed out …
Влияние AI на позиции QA в 2026 году
В 2026 году уже никто не спорит, что искусственный интеллект радикально меняет тестирование, как и все сферы бизнеса. Вопрос только в том, кого он зам…
I open-sourced 24 QA skills for Claude Code — from spec to release
TL;DR — I just open-sourced QA Claude Skill — 24 production-grade QA skills for Claude Code covering test design, automation, performance, security, m…
Context-Driven Testing: What It Is and Why It Matters Now
Context-driven testing rejects the notion that there's a universal "best practice" for QA. Instead, it holds that the value of any testing approach de…
[Перевод] Параметризация в JUnit 5 и Allure Report
Статья — перевод англоязычного руководства При написании автотестов мы часто используем параметризацию — запуск одного и того же теста с разными данны…
The Test Manager’s Guide: From Chaos to Structure — Part 5: Economic Impact — The Cost of Non-Structure
This series examines software quality not as a testing activity, but as a structural capability. Earlier parts focused on diagnosing chaos, introducin…
The smoke tests that never got automated
I've been a frontend dev for a few years now, and there's a pattern I kept seeing across almost every small team I worked with. New feature ships. Eve…
TestSprite Review: Visual Regression Testing for Multi-Locale Apps (Indonesian Case Study)
description: "Real-world TestSprite evaluation testing Indonesian e-commerce with IDR currency, timezone handling, and 3 locales. Grade A review with …