Software testing challenges typically fall into two fundamental categories: technical and organizational. The challenges engineers tend to home in on are the technical ones. Issues like test degradation, environmental mismatches, and time synchronization errors can cause misleading, inaccurate, or inconsistent test results. These problems are technical at their core, and on a case-by-case basis, they…
If you ask a roomful of QA engineers how to fix a flaky test, you’ll receive no shortage of answers. “Add retries, improve synchronization and stabilize test data,” some will tell you. “Isolate dependences and update selectors,” others will say. This is valid advice. These practices will indeed help reduce testing flakiness. But the problem…
If you lead a team of developers, SDETs, or QA professionals, you’ve likely had this conversation: should you build test automation yourself, or buy a platform that already does it? Playwright itself is a strong, well-documented framework, and it has become the default choice for browser automation. That reputation is why the do-it-yourself (DIY) route sounds…
When most enterprise teams evaluate a do-it-yourself (DIY) Playwright build, they tend to focus on the foundational, table stakes costs that are easy to see. These are items like engineering hours, cloud infrastructure, and open-source tooling; they’re the costs that end up in a spreadsheet, to be reviewed and approved. The numbers that rarely make it into…
Product companies often feel most comfortable when they own as much of their technology stack as possible. This sense of ownership creates a sense of control; it gives the company something proprietary to present to their markets, and it makes the architecture easier to explain. At Leapwork, we built our solutions using Selenium and Playwright as their underlying foundations. These technologies are also available…
