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Strategies and tools for building resilient test automation pipelines—from flaky tests to full-stack confidence loops.

Stop Test Failures in Their Tracks: Build a Self-Healing Playwright Pipeline with AI

Stop Test Failures in Their Tracks: Build a Self-Healing Playwright Pipeline with AI

What Is a Self-Healing Pipeline? In the world of end-to-end testing, UI changes are the bane of automation. A slight tweak in your button’s CSS class or a restructured DOM can send your CI jobs into an endless loop of red failures—often false alarms that sap your team’

Automation Paradox: Why AI-Powered QE Is Slowing Down Your Release Velocity (Despite What You Believe)

Automation Paradox: Why AI-Powered QE Is Slowing Down Your Release Velocity (Despite What You Believe)

In the age of “GenAI everything,” Quality Engineering (QE) teams have rushed to adopt AI-powered tooling—hoping to shave days off release cycles and free engineers from tedious tasks. Yet mounting evidence shows that, counterintuitively, these tools can slow down your delivery pipeline. In this post, we unpack the Automation

The Hidden Tax of Traditional Test Automation

The Hidden Tax of Traditional Test Automation

“Test automation isn’t failing because of bad testers. It’s failing because testers are being forced to write and maintain code like developers… just to verify if a login button works.” Catalina Zapata nailed a pain point that resonates across the software quality industry. If you've worked

Let Your Team Run Playwright Tests from Allure TestOps — Without Touching Code

Let Your Team Run Playwright Tests from Allure TestOps — Without Touching Code

In most teams, automated UI tests live in a developer's terminal or buried deep in CI pipelines. But what if your Product Managers, Developers, and even Project Managers could run those same Playwright tests from a browser — without writing a line of code? At Snap eHealth, we made

🏗️ Scaling Your Repo for the Enterprise with Playwright

🏗️ Scaling Your Repo for the Enterprise with Playwright

Playwright is blazing fast, beautifully expressive, and a dream for modern frontend testing — but getting it to work at scale? That’s where s*** gets real. I’ve seen too many teams fall into the same trap: the initial Playwright setup works great when there are 5–10 tests. But