Playwright
A GitHub Actions design to run Playwright tests on pull requests: a fast selected tier on PRs, the full suite at merge, and one required check.
Walter Galvão | Oct 29, 2026 | 14 min read
Playwright · Oct 22, 2026 · 14 min read
Find Playwright flaky tests in CI from retries, JSON reports and shard results, then rank them by flake rate, confirm with repeatEach and quarantine.
Playwright · Oct 21, 2026 · 14 min read
Use Claude Code and Playwright MCP to reproduce a test that fails in CI, fix the root cause instead of adding waits, and prove it with --repeat-each.
Playwright · Oct 20, 2026 · 16 min read
Use the Playwright trace viewer to debug red CI jobs: keep the failing attempt's trace, then find locator, backend and flaky-test root causes.
Playwright video recording in CI: pick a mode that fits your retries, measure what video costs, upload videos per shard and fix missing or empty ones.
Playwright · Oct 19, 2026 · 11 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Compare Playwright MCP, the CLI, test agents and a prompt-only assistant on your own suite, then score and gate the AI Playwright tests they write.
Playwright · Oct 15, 2026 · 17 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Playwright 1.64 in CI: run --shuffle nightly and keep the seed, keep shared-account tests apart with locks, and catch the breaking changes.
Playwright · Oct 13, 2026 · 10 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Cut GitHub Actions costs for Playwright without losing coverage. Cache browser binaries, scope triggers, set job timeouts, shard correctly, track flaky tests, and tighten artifact retention.
Playwright · Oct 08, 2026 · 21 min read · Sumit Saurabh
Playwright
A seven-check review checklist for AI-generated Playwright tests, covering hallucinated assertions, intent-weakening heals, and UI-driven state setup before they reach CI.
Playwright · Aug 27, 2026 · 18 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
JavaScript test runners share status words and disagree about what the words mean. Playwright and Cypress use "skipped" for opposite cases. Jest carries 7 statuses but not "flaky". This guide translates each runner's vocabulary and shows how runners derive flakiness from attempts.
Jul 31, 2026 · 17 min read · Andrew Goldis
Cheaper rates, bigger volume discounts, a new self-serve Business plan, and fairer overage. Here's what changed and why.
Product Updates · Jul 30, 2026 · 4 min read · Andrew Goldis
Product Updates
Playwright API tests that pass locally still fail in CI? Here's the fixture architecture, per-worker isolation, and observability practices that fix that.
Playwright · Jul 22, 2026 · 13 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Not every component needs a real browser. Here's a clear decision framework for when Playwright component testing adds value and when Jest already covers it.
Playwright · Jul 09, 2026 · 19 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
A Playwright custom reporter takes 20 minutes to prototype and months to maintain. Here's what it actually takes to build one that holds up in production CI.
Playwright · Jun 30, 2026 · 36 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Playwright v1.61 adds --last-failed-file, a flag that makes caching --last-failed in CI simpler and more reliable. Learn how to set it up in sharded GitHub Actions workflows.
Playwright · Jun 22, 2026 · 5 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Feature flags break Playwright's isolation model because they live outside the browser context. Learn how to intercept flag evaluation at the network layer, declare flag state as a fixture, and structure parallel runs so no worker can affect another's flag context.
Playwright · Jun 19, 2026 · 26 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Your Playwright pipeline is only as fast as its slowest shard. Learn what GitHub Actions and GitLab CI get right at scale, and the one thing neither solves.
Playwright · Jun 09, 2026 · 17 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Playwright test data leaks rarely come from bad secrets hygiene, they come from test artifacts, fixtures, and reporters. Here's how to find and close that gap.
Playwright · Jun 02, 2026 · 14 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Most Playwright anti patterns don't show up until your suite scales. Here's how to spot and fix them before CI becomes unpredictable.
Playwright · May 27, 2026 · 25 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
A decision framework for splitting your Playwright tests between staging and production — what belongs where, how to configure each, and when production testing isn't worth it.
Playwright · May 15, 2026 · 29 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Version 1.60.0 of Playwright has been released on May 11, 2026 and introduced a few compatibility issues with Currents. In order to use newer versions of Playwright (>= 1.60.x) update to the new v2 of the Currents Playwright reporter (`npm install @currents/playwright@latest`).
Product Updates · May 11, 2026 · 1 min read · Andrew Goldis
Product Updates
Your UI refactor didn't break the app, it broke your tests. Learn how semantic Playwright test design decouples your suite from implementation details for good.
Playwright · May 04, 2026 · 18 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
When Playwright suites grow, pass/fail reports stop being enough. Learn what teams need instead for flakiness detection, worker visibility, and trend analysis.
Playwright · Apr 24, 2026 · 18 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Learn how to handle secrets, OAuth, MFA, magic links, and parallel CI without flaky runs.
Playwright · Apr 15, 2026 · 19 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Learn what breaks when a Playwright suite scales from 20 to 500 tests, and how to fix it with test data isolation, flakiness math, smarter retries, and faster CI pipelines.
Playwright · Apr 08, 2026 · 14 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
Playwright mocking is easy to start but hard to scale. Follow this practical guide to learn when to mock, when it becomes risky, and how to reduce mock debt.
Playwright · Apr 01, 2026 · 30 min read · Currents Team
Playwright
AI prompts can fix some Playwright test failures, but many need execution context to get the fix right. Here's where prompts work, where they break down, and how Currents MCP fills the gap.
Product Updates · Mar 24, 2026 · 10 min read · Currents Team
Product Updates
Migrating from Selenium to Playwright is more than rewriting tests. This guide covers costs, risks, timelines, and how teams actually do it.
Tools · Mar 18, 2026 · 11 min read · Currents Team
Tools
AI can run tests, but humans must decide outcomes. Learn how teams combine AI and human QA using human-in-the loop testing best practices.
Playwright · Mar 02, 2026 · 12 min read · Goodness Eboh
Playwright
Why has AI adoption accelerated in Playwright? Why does its ecosystem seem to absorb new capabilities so naturally, from autonomously planning test flows to self-healing failing steps?
Playwright · Mar 02, 2026 · 13 min read · Goodness Eboh
Playwright
When should you run tests in headless vs headed mode in Playwright? Learn the differences between the two modes and when to use each.
Playwright · Feb 25, 2026 · 13 min read · Asjad Khan
Playwright
Learn how to get the most out of Playwright Test Agents and improve your test suite using new AI solutions.
Playwright · Feb 13, 2026 · 16 min read · Joshua Adeyemi
Playwright
How the Playwright MCP server drives a browser, how to set it up headless, and how to get the tests it drafts ready for your CI suite.
Playwright · Feb 06, 2026 · 14 min read · Dumebi Okolo
Playwright
Empower your AI Agents to write, debug, and maintain Playwright tests with expert knowledge.
Playwright · Feb 03, 2026 · 5 min read · Walter Galvão
Playwright
Struggling with Playwright tests failing only in CI? Here's how to debug them with tracing, verbose logs, and consistent environments to find the root cause.
Playwright · Jan 27, 2026 · 14 min read · Dumebi Okolo
Playwright
Thinking about adopting Playwright but don't know where to start? Here's everything you need to be aware about before getting started.
Playwright · Jan 19, 2026 · 20 min read · Asjad Khan
Playwright
As Playwright suites grow, runtimes climb and CI slows. Learn strategies on how to speed up Playwright tests and reduce delays in your workflow.
Playwright · Jan 07, 2026 · 14 min read · Joshua Adeyemi
Playwright
Learn how to measure and increase Playwright code coverage and ensure your tests stay reliable.
Playwright · Dec 19, 2025 · 12 min read · Goodness Eboh
Playwright
Long Playwright test runtimes slow CI pipelines. We compare Playwright workers vs. sharding, and when test orchestration becomes the better alternative.
Playwright · Dec 09, 2025 · 13 min read · Joshua Adeyemi
Playwright
Flaky Playwright tests waste time and trust. Follow best practices and this cultural approach to build stable, team-owned tests that scale with your product.
Playwright · Nov 28, 2025 · 16 min read · Asjad Khan
Playwright
A reader-submitted guide sharing 14 lessons learned from writing 500 Playwright tests — essential tips for beginners to avoid common pitfalls.
Playwright · Nov 19, 2025 · 8 min read · Dumebi Okolo
Playwright
Passing tests can hide broken workflows. Understand how test automation analytics track key metrics to keep your Playwright test suite healthy.
Playwright · Nov 12, 2025 · 12 min read · Joshua Adeyemi
Playwright
What is a flaky test? Learn why flaky tests cause false failures, waste CI/CD time, and how to fix them to keep your test suite reliable.
Playwright · Oct 30, 2025 · 13 min read · Asjad Khan
Playwright
Stuck with Playwright timeouts? Learn how to debug different Playwright timeouts using our practical checklist and stabilize your test suite.
Playwright · Oct 23, 2025 · 7 min read · Goodness Eboh
Playwright
This document summarizes the incident, the actions taken to restore service and the preventative improvements we are implementing.
Company News · Oct 23, 2025 · 4 min read · Andrew Goldis
Company News
Microsoft Playwright Workspaces vs Currents
Tools · Sep 08, 2025 · 7 min read · Currents Team
Tools
Playwright has quickly become one of the most popular frameworks for end-to-end testing. Out of the box it gives you fast, reliable browser automation, but the real power comes from its ecosystem.
Playwright · Aug 25, 2025 · 5 min read · Walter Galvão
Playwright
DataDog vs Currents
Tools · Jun 26, 2025 · 5 min read · Currents Team
Tools
LambdaTest vs Currents - a comparison of Currents with LambdaTest for Playwright testing reporting.
Tools · Jun 05, 2025 · 5 min read · Currents Team
Tools
ReportPortal vs Currents
Tools · Apr 25, 2025 · 4 min read · Currents Team
Tools
Connect your AI tools to Currents using MCP
Product Updates · Apr 15, 2025 · 2 min read · Currents Team
Product Updates
BrowserStack vs Currents
Tools · Apr 01, 2025 · 5 min read · Currents Team
Tools
Microsoft Playwright Testing vs Currents
Tools · Mar 17, 2025 · 6 min read · Currents Team
Tools
Achieving SOC 2 Type 2 Certification: A Milestone in Our Ongoing Commitment to Security and Compliance!
Product Updates · Mar 13, 2025 · 2 min read · Amanda Bennicasa
Product Updates
Allure Report vs Currents
Tools · Feb 17, 2025 · 6 min read · Currents Team
Tools
In this blog post we share what to expect from 2025 and reflect on our achievements from the previous year.
Company News · Jan 06, 2025 · 5 min read · Andrew Goldis
Company News
We're happy to announce that Currents has successfully completed the SOC 2 Type 1 examination!
Product Updates · Nov 18, 2024 · 2 min read · Amanda Bennicasa
Product Updates
We collaborated wih dozen of teams that migrated from Cypress to Playwright. We discuss the cost of migration, migration steps and timeline, tips for smooth migration and adoption, use of AI tools to automate the migration.
Playwright · Jul 25, 2024 · 9 min read · Andrew Goldis
Playwright
Cypress vs Playwright from a tech leader perspective: cost of ownership, cost of running tests in CI, risks, best practices of migration between the frameworks.
Playwright · Jul 23, 2024 · 9 min read · Andrew Goldis
Playwright
Comparing Cypress and Playwright Test Flakiness Using Currents Data.
Playwright · Jun 27, 2024 · 3 min read · Andrew Goldis
Playwright
May 2024: latest updates from Currents - looking back at the last few months and sharing our plans for the future.
Product Updates · May 22, 2024 · 4 min read · Andrew Goldis
Product Updates
We are thrilled to announce the next major release of the most advanced Playwright Reporter. It brings significant improvements: full parallel mode support, step-level reporting stored directly in the cloud, and CI runs orchestration that is up to 40% faster compared to native Playwright sharding.
Product Updates · Apr 02, 2024 · 7 min read · Andrew Goldis
Product Updates
On September 27, 2023, Cypress.io activated a blocking that affected Sorry Cypress users and Currents customers. This blog post breaks down the technical implementation of the blocking, analyses the reasons and clarifies Currents position.
Company News · Nov 13, 2023 · 6 min read · Andrew Goldis
Company News
Capture and replay everything that is happening in Cypress during CI runs with a free, open-source plugin. Debug your failed and flaky CI cypress tests by replaying execution traces.
Tools · Jul 10, 2023 · 3 min read · Andrew Goldis
Tools
A tutorial on how to get a GitHub Actions Matrix Job URL in Cypress tests. This is useful for getting a reference to the specific matrix build job from cypress terminal output.
Cypress · Dec 19, 2022 · 2 min read · Andrew Goldis
Cypress
Currents is a TinySeed company! We are joining a year-long accelerator program and a strong community of ambitious founders of bootstrapped SaaS companies
Company News · Nov 01, 2022 · 5 min read · Andrew Goldis
Company News
A detailed comparison guide between Cypress Dashboard and the most popular alternatives - Currents and Sorry Cypress. Pricing, analytics, orchestration, load balancing, compatibility, parallelization, integrations and unit economics are compared between the solutions.
Cypress · Oct 16, 2022 · 16 min read · Andrew Goldis
Cypress
If you're using Jenkins, and you have access to cloud compute resources, you can run cypress in parallel across multiple virtual machines. This will significantly cut down your cypress run time. This article is a recipe for how to do that.
Cypress · Mar 01, 2022 · 4 min read · Seth Lutske
Cypress
Overview of the best strategies for cypress tests parallelization and test execution tracking. I investigated Cypress Dashboard, Sorry Cypress, Currents, Cypress-Parallel, and a manual parallelization approach.
Tools · Dec 12, 2021 · 6 min read · Laerte Neto
Tools
After 6 months of continuous improvements and 20+ millions of cypress tests recorded, we are excited to announce that Currents.dev is out of beta!
Product Updates · Nov 01, 2021 · 1 min read · Andrew Goldis
Product Updates