Navigate the Timeline: Year One of a DIY Testing Automation Framework
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Executive Summary
What you will learn
Creating the demo of a DIY Playwright framework is the easy part.
Teams that build their own frameworks tend to follow a similar arc after that: early momentum, a stretch where maintenance starts competing for attention, and a real decision point around month 10 or 11 about what the framework becomes next.
The Year 1 of a DIY Testing Automation Framework Guide maps that arc month by month, so a team can plan for it rather than discover it.
Traces the full first year in three stages: build, stabilization, and scaling.
Shows how the momentum of the first 30 days gives way to the real cost of the next 90.
Answers whether Claude changes the math on ownership and maintenance.
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