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I Fixed 110 Failing E2E Tests in 2 Hours Without Writing a Single Line of Test Code
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I Fixed 110 Failing E2E Tests in 2 Hours Without Writing a Single Line of Test Code

via Dev.tonklars01mo ago

110 failing Playwright tests. Login flows, multi-step form wizards, search filters, file uploads, complex user workflows. Some failures were missing UI steps. Some were dirty state from previous runs. Some were stale selectors. I fixed all of them in 2 hours. I didn't write a single line of test code. I built a https://github.com/kaizen-yutani/playwright-autopilot that does it. How the debugging workflow actually works When you run a test through the plugin, a lightweight capture hook injects into Playwright's worker process. It monkey-patches BrowserContext._initialize to add an instrumentation listener — no modifications to Playwright's source code, works with any existing installation. From that point, every browser action is recorded: DOM snapshots — full ARIA tree of the page captured before and after each click, fill, select, and navigation. When a test fails, you see exactly what the page looked like at the moment of failure, and what it looked like one step before. Network requ

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