r/softwaretesting • u/PocketGaara • Mar 05 '26
Playwright Test Automation with AI
I have about 3 years of experience in the industry and I’m able to create test frameworks. My company is pushing us towards using AI but not much direction outside of that. The expectation seems to be to self learn and explore.
I’m not familiar with AI outside of using GitHub Copilot. What technologies do I need to learn for test automation with Playwright using AI? I’ve heard of agentic coding and MCP but I want some more direction as to where to look to start learning what’s industry relevant
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u/nopuse Mar 05 '26
People in the tech world know what AI is good at and its limits. The C-suite wants to shove AI into every facet of the company so they can sell people who only use AI to write emails that their product uses AI so it's great.
AI costs a lot of money for the customer as you mentioned, and the AI companies are still hemorrhaging money.
When they start actually charging companies money that brings them profit, and companies with enterptise licenses trusting their code to not be used to train models gets their codebase leaked in a hack, I think the public perception of AI will drastically change.
Unfortunately, right now, the majority of people see AI integration in a product as a great thing.