Notes on testing, automation and the parts of quality work that are mostly writing.
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How I gave my Playwright suite better reporting, smoke tests for every user role, and survived a few tooling gremlins along the way.
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A retry hides the failure and keeps the cause. Most of the flakiness I removed from our suite came from tests that were describing timing instead of describing behaviour.
The difference between a ticket that gets fixed this sprint and one that gets asked about for two days is usually the first four lines.