Afoxlabs — Writing on quality engineering

Afoxlabs — Writing on quality engineeringAfoxlabs runs the QA and Quality Engineering function for B2B SaaS teams — manual QA, Playwright and API automation, CI/CD quality gates, and AI-assisted testing — as an ongoing engagement.https://afoxlabs.com/enWhy your Playwright suite is flaky, and the three causes behind almost all of ithttps://afoxlabs.com/blog/why-your-playwright-suite-is-flaky/https://afoxlabs.com/blog/why-your-playwright-suite-is-flaky/Flakiness is not random. In practice it comes from three specific causes — shared state, implicit timing assumptions and unstable locators — and each has a concrete fix.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTest the API first: why UI-first automation is the most expensive mistake in QAhttps://afoxlabs.com/blog/test-the-api-first/https://afoxlabs.com/blog/test-the-api-first/Most teams automate the UI first because it looks like testing. It produces the slowest, most fragile and most expensive coverage available. Here is the order that actually works.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow to test an LLM feature when the output changes every timehttps://afoxlabs.com/blog/testing-llm-features/https://afoxlabs.com/blog/testing-llm-features/Conventional automation assumes the same input gives the same output. LLM features break that assumption. Here is the practical shift from assertions to evaluation.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT