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…
Your suite passes on your machine and fails in CI. You run one test with –grep and it fails, though the whole file is green. The cause is almost always the same: setup lives in…
What Breaks Your Regression Suite Is Data, Not Tests When a nightly regression run comes back with fourteen red tests and the code hasn’t changed, the cause is almost never the tests. It’s the state…
Why Tool Selection Still Happens on the Wrong Criteria Most tool decisions I see defended in RFC documents rest on three arguments: the syntax feels nicer, the tool is popular right now, or the team…
