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Web Scraping with Playwright: Handle Any Website
Web Scraping with Playwright: Handle Any Website tags: python, playwright, webscraping, tutorial Web Scraping with Playwright: Handle Any Website Imag…
I turned plain English (and any live website) into API tests
Hi 👋 This is my first post here, and I want to share a side project I built as a QA engineer — because it scratches an itch I think a lot of us have. …
How Much of Your CI Pipeline Is Just Cucumber Scenarios You're Too Afraid to Delete
The CI job just hit 28 minutes. Again. You pull up the duration report expecting to blame a bloated integration test or a slow environment spin‑up. In…
3 Portfolio Mistakes Hiring Managers Spot Instantly
The manager opens your portfolio. Your resume says you have five years of automation experience. The README lists Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Jenkin…
The Manual Tester Who Can Write a SQL Join Will Always Beat the SDET Who Can't
Most people think the SDET title means you are automatically more valuable than a manual tester. The SDET writes Playwright scripts. The SDET configur…
The Test That Only Failed in CI, Never Locally
A test checking that a scheduled reminder appeared on the right day passed every time I ran it on my machine and failed every time it ran in CI, with …
Your OpenAPI spec is already a test plan — here's how to turn it into Playwright tests automatically
If you're writing Playwright API tests manually from an OpenAPI/Swagger spec, you're doing work that should be automated. Every endpoint in your spec …
Робот, который звонит в WhatsApp: как я автоматизировал то, что автоматизировать не предполагалось
Задача формулировалась в одно предложение: робот должен сам звонить людям в WhatsApp, проигрывать голосовое приветствие, записывать ответ и присылать …
Хуки Claude Code: запрещаем агенту коммитить без прогона тестов
Правило из CLAUDE.md агент забывает на длинной сессии - это текст, а не механизм. Я разобрал слои дисциплины Claude Code и прибил критичные правила ху…
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, and…
Playwright + Chromium: 1 Script Replaces 2 Manual Testers for WebRTC Video Call E2E
If you've ever watched a QA engineer press "call" on one laptop, walk across the room, and press "answer" on a phone before the ringing stops, you alr…
ИИ заменит QA-инженера? Мы дали ему 2000 наших тестов, чтобы проверить
Автотесты писали, чтобы экономить время. Но в какой-то момент поняли, что тратим на их обслуживание больше, чем экономим. Тест упал в CI — откры…
Link Manual Test Cases to Playwright and Robot Specs
Most teams already keep Playwright or Robot Framework specs next to the product. Manual cases often live somewhere else — a spreadsheet, a cloud TMS, …
Тестирование изменилось навсегда — Перспективные MCP для QA
В этой статье я расскажу тебе про перспективные подходы в использовании MCP связок для решения задач в области автоматизации тестирования, р…
OAuthSonas: A Tiny OpenID Connect Provider for Playwright E2E Tests
If you've ever wired up end-to-end tests for an app that uses OpenID Connect, you've probably done one of these: stubbed the OIDC library entirely and…
page.waitForTimeout — это всего лишь warning. Почему зелёный линт не спасает Playwright-тесты
Тест кликает с force: true , ждёт waitForTimeout(3000) и не делает ни одной проверки — а CI с подключённым eslint-plugin-playwright зелёный: все три г…
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…
Modern Frontend Testing Is Mostly About State, Timing, and Geometry
Frontend testing used to sound simple: open a page, find an element, click it, and verify the result. That description still works for basic workflows…
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…
Playwright CLI vs Playwright MCP: Which Should You Use with Claude Code?
If you searched "Claude Code + Playwright," the first thing you probably found was the Playwright MCP server — it's the original, most widely document…
I wasted a weekend on WSL2 browser automation so you don’t have to
If you want browser automation on Windows that actually survives contact with reality, treat WSL2 networking as the first problem. Not Playwright. Not…
Getting Started with Claude Code and Playwright CLI: A Step-by-Step Guide
AI coding agents like Claude Code are changing how SDETs approach browser automation. Instead of writing every locator and assertion by hand, you can …
Я запретил Claude говорить «всё работает» без пруфов. Это изменило всё
Пару месяцев назад я попросил агента проверить форму обратной связи после рефакторинга. Через несколько минут получил отчёт: все проверки пройдены, фо…
An Agent That Hunts Bugs in My App While I Sleep
I have a teammate who never sleeps, never gets bored, and spends every hour poking at our app trying to break it. It is an agent. Every hour it opens …
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…
How One Log File Turned Into Five Context Switches
The issue was not the tools. It was opening five of them before deciding what the log file was for. The log file was already on the screen. A remote W…
Нейросеть-автопилот вместо 400 Playwright-тестов
Юнит-тесты, интеграционные и Playwright E2E ловят баги в интерфейсе, но бессильны против вопроса «а не выгоднее ли просто положить стартовый капитал н…
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…