Engineering11 min
Can AI Write Your E2E Tests? What Actually Works in 2026
August 8, 2026
Field Notes
Notes from teams who’d rather know than guess.
Essays, postmortems, and ideas about end-to-end testing, reliability, and the small decisions that keep production calm. Written by the Smoketest team and engineers we learn from.
Engineering9 min
Playwright Fixtures vs Page Object Model in 2026
August 6, 2026
Engineering10 min
Stagehand Error Handling in Production
August 4, 2026
Engineering10 min
getByRole vs data-testid: A Playwright Selector Strategy That Survives Redesigns
August 1, 2026
Engineering10 min
Stagehand Cost Optimization and the Cache Misses Nobody Warns You About
July 30, 2026
Engineering9 min
Stagehand vs Playwright, and When You Need Both
July 28, 2026
Engineering11 min
The Best Automated Regression Testing Software in 2026
July 25, 2026
Engineering10 min
Playwright Strict Mode Violation, Explained and Fixed
July 23, 2026
Engineering9 min
Persisting Auth Sessions in Stagehand v3
July 21, 2026
Engineering9 min
How to Fix Playwright TimeoutError
July 18, 2026
Engineering13 min
The 8 Best Synthetic Monitoring Tools in 2026
July 16, 2026
Engineering10 min
Your Playwright Tests Pass Locally and Fail in CI
July 14, 2026
Engineering9 min
The Best BrowserStack Alternatives in 2026
July 13, 2026
Engineering13 min
The 12 Best AI Testing Tools in 2026
July 12, 2026
Engineering8 min
How We Made Our AI Browser Agent Stop Clicking the Wrong Button
June 28, 2026
Reliability7 min
The Testing Pyramid Is Wrong for Startups
June 26, 2026
Engineering6 min
Playwright Accessibility Testing with ARIA Snapshots and Role Assertions
June 24, 2026
Engineering7 min
Smoke Testing vs Regression Testing vs E2E Testing, and When You Need Each
June 22, 2026
Reliability7 min
Your Uptime Monitor Says 200 OK While Your Checkout Is Broken
June 19, 2026
Engineering9 min
What Works (and What Breaks) Running Playwright MCP in Claude Code
June 17, 2026
Engineering11 min
What Is Smoke Testing? A Complete Guide for SaaS Teams
June 15, 2026
Company2 min
Your monitor lied to you
June 9, 2026
Field Notes — weekly
One sharp idea about reliability, every Tuesday.
Three-minute read. Curated postmortems, test architecture notes, and the occasional war story from teams running real production. No product email.
22 essays · since June 2026