gary-parker.hashnode.dev7 Essential Scripts: Level Up Your Test Automation with AI.From Tedious Tasks to Intelligent Tests: How AI Can Actually Help I still remember the frustration. It was 3 AM, and I was wrestling with a flaky test – a seemingly random failure that haunted our regression suite. After hours of digging, I traced it...2d ago·7 min read
gary-parker.hashnode.devWhy QA Teams Struggle with Unstructured Test Data (And How to Solve It)The Spreadsheet Nightmare and the Quest for Realistic Test Data I still remember the feeling of dread. It was 3 AM, a critical release looming, and I was staring at a massive, sprawling spreadsheet – our "test data repository." It contained hundreds ...2d ago·6 min read
gary-parker.hashnode.devWhy QA Teams Struggle with Unstructured Data (and How to Solve It)The Case of the Vanishing Product Descriptions (and How We Found Them) I remember the feeling vividly. It was 3 AM, and I was staring at a wall of error logs. Our e-commerce platform was experiencing intermittent issues with product display. Initiall...3d ago·6 min read
gary-parker.hashnode.dev7 Essential Tools in the badlogic/pi-mono AI Agent ToolkitWrangling AI Agents: My Essential Toolkit for Reliable Testing I still remember the day I first tried integrating an AI agent into our automated test suite. The initial promise was dazzling: auto-generated tests, bug detection, and a massive reductio...4d ago·7 min read
gary-parker.hashnode.dev7 Essential pi-mono Components for Streamlining Test Automation.Automating the Mundane: My Journey to a More Efficient Test Suite with pi-mono I remember staring at a sprawling Playwright test suite, feeling overwhelmed. Hundreds of tests, brittle assertions, and a constant battle against flaky tests. It was a co...6d ago·6 min read