By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO & Automation Testing Expert at Skipper Soft As someone who leads automation architecture for multiple startups and rapidly moving R&D teams, I’ve learned one truth about UI automation: your tests rarely fail where you expect them to fail. They fail in the shadows — in the network calls, in silent console…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO & Automation Testing Expert at Skipper Soft As automated test suites grow, so does their complexity—and if you don’t apply architectural patterns early, maintenance becomes a bottleneck. At Skipper Soft, we encountered this first-hand while scaling our test automation framework built with Playwright and TypeScript. The Factory Pattern emerged as one…
By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft The Real Problem Behind “Flaky” Tests I’ve sat across the table from engineering leads more times than I can count, watching them scroll through endless test reports. Red Xs everywhere. And yet, the UI looked fine. The tests were failing, but not due to issues with buttons or…
By Eduard Dublyer, CTO of Skipper Soft As an expert in test automation and the CTO of Skipper Soft – a company providing Test Automation as a Service – I am constantly looking for new features that can enhance the efficiency and reliability of our automated testing solutions. The latest release of Playwright, version 1.51.1,…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO of Skipper Soft In our previous discussion on Playwright and dynamic elements, we explored how modern web applications create challenges for test automation due to asynchronous content loading, UI shifts, and unstable locators. But there’s another major factor that complicates automation: localization. When a web application supports multiple languages, elements can…
By Eduard Dubilyer, CTO of Skipper Soft In the fast-evolving landscape of web applications, test automation faces a critical challenge: handling dynamic elements that can derail even the most carefully crafted test suites. As the CTO of Skipper Soft, a specialized test automation services company, I’ve witnessed firsthand how unpredictable web elements can transform automation…
When you start building a test automation framework, one of the first things you want is fast visibility: run your tests, see the results.