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Testing Made Me Realize How Much I Was Shipping Blind
28+ min ago (1180+ words) I want to be honest about where I was before these two weeks: I knew testing existed, I knew it mattered, and I was not doing it. Not because I did not care, more because it felt like something I…...
Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright " Marlene Mhangami, Microsoft
12+ hour, 49+ min ago (534+ words) Marlene Mhangami presents data showing Git Hub code creation accelerating to 14 billion projected commits in 2026, driven by AI agents. She argues that true productivity gains require clean codebases and advocates for behavior-driven test development using Playwright with AI agents, where…...
Azertio: API and Database Testing Without the Glue Code
18+ hour, 57+ min ago (1155+ words) The tests work. But they are a project in themselves. Azertio is a new open-source testing tool that takes a different approach: instead of writing glue code, you declare plugins. Instead of managing a build file, you configure a YAML…...
Marlene Mhangami: Playwright for Functionality Testing
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (210+ words) Marlene Mhangami, a Senior Developer Advocate at both Microsoft and Git Hub, recently delivered a presentation titled "Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright." Mhangami, who works within the Core AI group focusing on developer productivity, shared insights into how…...
From Manual Testing to AI-Assisted Automation with Playwright Agents
3+ week, 3+ day ago (922+ words) Transform QA workflows with Playwright Agents'plan, generate, and auto-heal tests using AI for faster, scalable automation....
AI-Assisted QA with Playwright Agents: Key Points Developers Should Remember
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (355+ words) End-to-end testing has improved a lot with tools like Playwright, but maintaining tests is still painful. Someone has to debug the same flaky test again. That is where Playwright Agents become interesting. I recently came across this useful Geeky Ants…...
How I built an AI reporter for Playwright that explains test failures
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (209+ words) After 6 years doing QA automation in Fintech, I got tired of the same cycle: Test fails in CI Download the report Spend 20 minutes reading stack traces Realize it was a one-line selector issue So I built a custom Playwright reporter…...
12 Best Cypress Alternatives for QA Automation in 2026
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (1591+ words) However, 2026 presents a diverse testing ecosystem catering to different needs, team sizes, and tech stacks. This guide explores Cypress alternatives and their advanced testing features, while highlighting Cypress's own limitations. Unlike traditional testing tools that require extensive scripting expertise, Panto…...
12 Best Selenium Grid Alternatives 2026 for Enterprise QA Teams
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (1589+ words) Enterprise QA in 2026 is no longer just about where your tests run. Teams with strict data residency requirements, regulated CI/CD pipelines, or large-scale Selenium estates now face a more complex question: should you modernize your Selenium Grid, replace it,…...
I built the same MVP twice. The autonomous agent wrote 4. 6x more tests " none caught two stubbed core methods.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (733+ words) Side-post in the keppt build-in-public series " an interlude before the Phase 1 implementation write-up lands. While building Phase 1 of keppt, I ran a side experiment. Same architecture spec, two builds. One I curated over a day with Claude Code and Codex…...