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tanmay001

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About tanmay001

I'm a QA automation engineer and founder based in India. I've spent the last 12+ years building test infrastructure and dealing with broken pipelines.

Currently building TestDino, an observability platform that helps teams debug flaky Playwright tests without digging through endless CI/CD logs. I also run Alphabin, a QA consulting firm I started in 2019, and wrote a book on Appium automation.

Always happy to talk about Playwright, CI/CD optimization, and killing flaky tests.

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    Playwright's parallelism model has three layers. Most teams configure exactly one and wonder why CI is slow or flaky after bumping workers. The short version: Layer 1 (file-level) …

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    Comment #47258509

    Most tutorials teach you the API. Nobody teaches you how to structure a project that doesn't fall apart at 200 tests. This guide covers 20+ repositories and tools across every cate…

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    Show HN: Playwright CI/CD in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab CI

    I wrote a guide on integrating Playwright into the three most common CI systems. It covers what each platform actually requires to run Playwright reliably: browser dependency handl…

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    Show HN: Train AI Agents to Write Better Playwright Tests

    AI agents often generate inconsistent Playwright tests because they do not understand your application’s specific workflows, UI patterns, or constraints. The Playwright Skill provi…

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    Show HN: Why Playwright-CLI Beats MCP for AI‑Driven Browser Automation

    Most “AI + browser” setups still bolt MCP tools onto Playwright and hope for the best, so every click dumps full DOMs, accessibility trees, and logs into the model. That burns toke…

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    Comment #46288028

    Nice way to put it. Skills feel great for shaping how Claude works inside a repo, while MCP really shines when you want it to talk to “live” systems : databases, test runs, CI, all…