Comment by anthonypasq
3 days ago
are we just re-inventing playwright tests except 10x slower and infinity times more expensive?
i feel like im going insane
3 days ago
are we just re-inventing playwright tests except 10x slower and infinity times more expensive?
i feel like im going insane
since the rise of agentic coding tools, it feels like we're in a new "eternal september" of people discovering ui end-to-end test automation.
Also the merits of documentation and specs. It’s been eye-opening to see the subset of developers who were almost disdainful about writing documentation for their colleagues but are now tripping over themselves to do so for their clanker.
Agents read the docs. People don't. That's the underlying reason.
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People are rediscovering everything. Some people have proposed using a more formal language to tell the AI precisely what code to write. That's a compiler.
Well playwright tests used to be called puppeteer tests which used to be called selenium tests, so you tell me.
Ťhose are all technology variations of “automated web ui tests”, which is a subset of “automated ui tests”, which is itself almost (but not quite exactly) a subset of “automated user acceptance tests”, none of which are new categories.