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Designing a Scalable Cross-Platform Appium Framework
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (316+ words) Design rules I use on teams: Example: a terse Java-style Base Page + Login Page (using Appium Page Factory patterns). POM is an enabler, not an end state. I see two common mistakes that cause POM to fail at scale: (1) creating…...
How We Halved Our Playwright E2 E Suite
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (761+ words) Five patterns that took a slow, flaky Playwright suite down to fast and stable. We had a Playwright E2 E suite that had grown into a painful, flaky part of CI. Dozens of login/logout cycles per file. Fixed wait For Timeout…...
My Browser Test Passed. The User Was Never Logged In.
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (475+ words) That single moment changed how I think about browser automation entirely. When I started building browser automation tooling around Playwright, I expected the hardest problems to be technical. I thought most of the work would be around selectors, Docker containers,…...
Testing Made Me Realize How Much I Was Shipping Blind
6+ day, 15+ hour 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
1+ week, 3+ hour 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
1+ week, 9+ hour 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+ week, 1+ day 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
1+ mon, 1+ 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
1+ week, 2+ day 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
1+ week, 4+ day 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…...