Agentic testing with Playwright: how AI agents plan, write and repair tests
How AI agents do QA work with Playwright today: the loop, the tools (test agents, MCP, Agent SDK), where agents go wrong and the guardrails that work.
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QA and software testing guides
Practical guides for teams that ship without a QA department. Templates you can copy, tools compared on what they actually do, and how we run QA with Claude agents and a human QA engineer.
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AI and agentic testing
Self-healing tests: what AI should fix and what it must never touch
What self-healing tests really change, which AI fixes are safe, which need a person, and a review workflow, with a before/after Playwright example.
Test automation
Flaky tests in Playwright: causes, fixes and a quarantine policy
A field guide to flaky tests in Playwright: what causes them, how to find them with repeats, retries and traces, how to fix each cause, and how to quarantine safely.
Playwright API testing: a practical guide with TypeScript examples
Playwright API testing in practice: when API tests beat UI tests, the request fixture, a create to delete example with cleanup, faster UI setup and token auth.
Playwright GitHub Actions setup: a fast CI pipeline you can trust
A complete Playwright GitHub Actions workflow to copy: sharding, merged HTML reports, retries with traces, secrets for test accounts and what not to cache.
Mobile testing
Maestro vs Appium vs Mobilewright: choosing a mobile test framework in 2026
Maestro vs Appium vs Mobilewright, compared from their official docs: how tests are written, iOS and Android support, setup, CI, device clouds and licenses.
Release readiness
Go/No-Go release checklist: criteria and a template you can copy
A Go/No-Go checklist for software releases: the criteria that matter, who makes the call, examples of No-Go conditions and a template to paste into your release ticket.
Regression testing checklist: what to retest before every release
A regression testing checklist for small teams: what to retest before each release, layer by layer, how to keep the suite small and trusted, and a template to copy.
QA strategy
Bug report template: what to include, with GitHub and Jira versions
A bug report template with a filled example, a GitHub issue form and a Jira field map, plus why each field matters and the mistakes that waste developer time.
QA engineer salary: the full cost of a QA hire in 2026, and the alternatives
What a QA engineer costs a US company in 2026: BLS salary figures, benefits on top, hiring time, hidden costs, and what drives the price of the alternatives.
QA for startups: a checklist by stage, and who should do the testing
A QA checklist for each startup stage, from first customer to growing team, and an honest comparison of hiring, outsourcing, managed QA and AI tools.
Risk-based testing: decide what to test first with a simple matrix
Risk-based testing for small teams: score each user flow for likelihood and impact, build a simple matrix, and let the score decide how deeply you test it.
Test plan template: a lean plan your team will keep up to date
A lean test plan template for small agile teams: what a formal test plan contains, a Markdown template to copy and a filled example for a web app.
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