Automation Insights 101

Once upon a time, in a land filled with legacy test frameworks and stale documentation, a brave automation tester (me) decided to embark on an epic quest: Setting up Playwright. Did I have experience with Playwright? Nope. Did I care? Also nope. Did I have AI by my side? Absolutely. Why Even Try? Look, as an automation tester, I tend to stick with what works. I mean, if a tool runs my tests, why mess with it? But every now and then, an opportunity arises to experiment with something new—whether out of necessity, curiosity, or sheer boredom. This time, Playwright caught my attention, and with AI as my trusty sidekick, I was off to the races. Step 1: Let AI Do the Heavy Lifting Back in the olden days (aka pre-AI times), setting up a test automation framework meant: ☠️ Digging through outdated documentation 💀 Copy-pasting error messages into Google ⚰️ Watching my soul leave my body as I debugged for hours But this time? I outsourced my brainpower to AI. Here’s what I asked it to d...

Welcome to the Wild West of QA As a Senior QA Engineer, I thought I’d seen it all—apps crashing, APIs throwing tantrums, and web platforms that break the moment you look at them funny. But then came Generative AI, a technology that doesn’t just process inputs; it creates . It writes, it chats, it even tries to be funny (but let’s be real, AI humor is still a work in progress). And testing it? That’s like trying to potty-train a dragon. It’s unpredictable, occasionally brilliant, sometimes horrifying, and if you’re not careful, it might just burn everything down. So, how do we QA something that makes up its own rules? Buckle up, because this is not your typical test plan. 1. Functional Testing: Is This Thing Even Working? Unlike traditional software, where a button click does the same thing every time, Generative AI enjoys a little creative freedom . You ask it for a recipe, and it gives you a five-paragraph existential crisis. You request a joke, and it tells you one so bad you ...