AI can write a test before you finish your coffee or tea. It can inspect a user story, suggest scenarios, generate Playwright code, and explain why a test failed far quicker than humans can. That’s impressive, especially if your morning routine already includes arguing with a flaky login test. The uncomfortable part is that an…
Playwright is outstanding at running tests. That is a major reason why so many development teams have adopted it. You write a test, commit it to Git, run it locally or through CI, and get useful feedback quickly. For an individual developer or a small team, the model works remarkably well. But internal adoption rarely…
When Microsoft shipped Playwright Agents in October 2025, it raised the bar for what modern test automation could look like. Playwright’s three AI agents (Planner, Generator, and Healer) work together to automate test creation, maintenance, and repair, delivering real speed and reducing manual effort across the entire testing lifecycle. For enterprise teams looking to maximize…
Every organization has growing pains, whether it’s scaling systems, managing budgets, or picking the perfect coffee maker for the new office. Software testing’s chief 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…
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…
For as long as software developers have shipped software, quality came down to one question asked right before release: “Did we test it?” Green results, sign-off, out the door. Simple, and for a long time, good enough. It isn’t anymore. Between continuous delivery, AI-generated code, and autonomous agents, that question quietly lost its power. The one that’s replaced it is harder…
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…
The new, fully agentic, Leapwork Platform comprises of three distinct, interconnected products to address the core challenge facing enterprise organizations today: how to confidently put AI to work for real productivity gains across the software development lifecycle with speed, ease, and quality, regardless of where each part of the organization stands in their AI journey….
Covers how test automation and quality assurance needs to evolve alongside agentic engineering
