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AI-assisted test generation — real productivity boost or just hype?Over the past few months I've been experimenting with Claude and GitHub Copilot for test case generation at work. Mixed…
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Playwright trace viewer completely changed how I debug failing CI testsBefore trace viewer, debugging a CI failure meant adding console.log, pushing, waiting 8 minutes for CI, repeat.…
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What test metrics do you actually report from CI to Slack or Teams?We want to add test result notifications to our Slack channel after each CI run. Before I build this out I want to know…
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Why I stopped writing formal test plans and what replaced themFor the first 4 years of my QA career I wrote formal test plans for every feature. Last 2 years: I've written zero.…
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