Why 70/20/10 Is the Wrong Question Every team that asks “what should our unit/integration/E2E ratio be?” has already made the mistake. The pyramid was never a ratio prescription. It is a cost-and-feedback model: tests that…
Eyeballing the UI Is Not a Test Strategy Functional tests assert behavior: the button exists, the click fires, the API returns 200. None of that notices that the button is now 4px off the grid,…
Most teams evaluating AI for test automation ask the wrong question, run a two-hour demo, and come out with either hype or disappointment. Both outcomes are useless because the thing being measured was never defined.…
Shrinking a regression suite is usually proposed in a meeting and executed with a text editor. Someone says “these tests take too long,” a list of candidates gets assembled from memory, and two hundred tests…
Adding AI to a Playwright + TypeScript Setup: Where It Helps and Where It Doesn’t Every automation team is being asked the same question this year: can AI write our end-to-end tests? The honest answer…
Why Page Object Goes Unquestioned Open any test automation repository and you will find a pages/ directory. Nobody argues about it. It arrived with the project scaffold, it survived three refactors, and at some point…
Why CI Duration Is the First Wall You Hit A browser test suite grows the way application features grow: one spec file at a time. Nothing feels slow on the day you add it. Then…
Which Part of an AI Agent Cannot Be Tested An agent that calls tools, hits APIs and moves through states is mostly ordinary software. Input validation, prompt assembly, tool dispatch, retry logic, state transitions, response…
Mocks Passed, Production Broke: A Familiar Story Most integration failures in a microservice estate are not coding errors. They are stale assumptions. A consumer team wrote a mock for GET /orders/42 eighteen months ago, the…
