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Tag: Playwright

  • Automating Archived Webinar Downloads: Reverse-Engineering a Portal’s Hidden API

    Automating Archived Webinar Downloads: Reverse-Engineering a Portal’s Hidden API

    We needed to pull years of archived webinar recordings out of an enterprise webinar platform and drop them into cloud storage. It sounds like a simple “download all” job. It wasn’t — and the reasons why make for a nice tour through session capture, CSRF tokens, on-demand file generation, and a live progress dashboard. 1.…

  • Zero-Touch QA: Automating Playwright Test Generation with Copilot Skills and MCP

    Zero-Touch QA: Automating Playwright Test Generation with Copilot Skills and MCP

    Writing robust end-to-end tests for a live, multi-page application you do not own is notoriously difficult. Without access to local development environments, Storybook components, or internal feature flags, you are left manually inspecting the DOM to figure out how things work. However, the testing landscape is shifting rapidly. By leveraging GitHub Copilot’s extensible architecture, I…

  • Simplifying Web Testing with AI: Introducing the AI Test Script Generator

    Simplifying Web Testing with AI: Introducing the AI Test Script Generator

    The Testing Challenge As a team lead and software engineer, I’ve often encountered a recurring challenge in my projects: how to effectively test user journeys on websites. This challenge becomes particularly pronounced in companies without specialized QA teams, where testing responsibilities fall on developers who may not have extensive testing expertise. Let’s face it – many…