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From Zero to QA Automation: Everything You Need to Know Before Writing Your First Test

Part 1 of the From Zero to QA Automation Series — Software Testing Fundamentals, Essential Tools, and Your First Practical Assignment

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Nov 8

Playwright 1.65 Is Here: 7 Changes That Could Transform Your Test Automation Workflow

Bun support, smarter failure reporting, exclusive test execution, and breaking changes every QA engineer should understand.

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Nov 5

Playwright vs WebdriverIO in 2026: Two Different Visions of the Future of Test Automation

Browser contexts, WebDriver BiDi, AI agents, and the architectural decisions that matter more than benchmark results.

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Oct 31

Playwright vs Cypress in 2026: The Architectural Differences That Actually Matter

Two powerful testing frameworks. Two fundamentally different architectures. And one decision that can shape your entire automation…

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Oct 29

Playwright 1.64: Stop Trusting Green Tests — Use Shuffle to Expose Hidden Dependencies

Your Playwright suite might be green for the wrong reasons. Here’s how to uncover hidden test dependencies before they become CI failures.

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Oct 19

Playwright Test Locks: Stop Serialising Your Entire Suite Just Because Two Tests Share State

How to protect shared accounts, backend state and external resources without killing parallel execution

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Oct 14

Your Website Now Has an API for AI Agents — Here’s How to Test It with Playwright WebMCP

For years, browser automation has been built around one assumption:

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Oct 12

Playwright 1.64 Just Landed: The New Features That Actually Matter for Test Automation

Playwright releases move fast.

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Sep 29

Advanced Playwright: Control Time, Network and WebSockets — Build Truly Deterministic Tests

Most Playwright tests control the UI.

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Sep 21

Playwright Test Agents: From Browser Exploration to Generated and Healed Tests

Planner, Generator and Healer — what happens when Playwright moves from AI-assisted browser automation to an actual agentic testing…

Svetlana Tretjakova

Svetlana Tretjakovashe/her

Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience, specialised in Angular development, Playwright test automation, IAM systems, and CI/CD engineering.

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