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Andrew Goldis·
What does "skipped" mean - test statuses review across popular JavaScript runners
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.
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Introducing Currents' New Pricing
Cheaper rates, bigger volume discounts, a new self-serve Business plan, and fairer overage. Here's what changed and why.
Andrew Goldis·
Playwright API Testing: Patterns That Actually Scale
Playwright API tests that pass locally still fail in CI? Here's the fixture architecture, per-worker isolation, and observability practices that fix that.
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Playwright Component Testing in Large Frontend Codebases
Currents Team·
Playwright Custom Reporters: Build Your Own
Currents Team·
Playwright's New --last-failed-file Flag: Re-Run Only Failed Tests in GitHub Actions
Currents Team·
Playwright + Feature Flags: Advanced Test Isolation Strategies
Currents Team·
Playwright CI at Scale: What Works in GitHub and GitLab
Currents Team·
How Playwright Tests Leak Data (and How to Stop It)
Currents Team·
Playwright Anti-Patterns: What to Watch For
Currents Team·
Playwright testing in Staging vs Production
Currents Team·
Playwright 1.60.0 Release Updates
Andrew Goldis·
Designing Playwright Tests That Survive UI Refactors
Currents Team·
Playwright HTML Reporter: Why It Breaks Down at Scale
Currents Team·
Testing Authentication with Playwright: The Complete Guide
Currents Team·
What Breaks When Your Test Suite Grows From 20 to 500 Tests
Currents Team·
The Playwright Network Mocking Playbook
Currents Team·
Fixing Playwright Tests with AI: What Prompts Need to Actually Work
Currents Team·
Migrating from Selenium to Playwright: The Complete Guide
Currents Team·
Customer Success Story: Juvare
Amanda Bennicasa·
Human-in-the-Loop Testing: Best Practices to Combine AI and Human QA
Goodness Eboh·
State of Playwright AI Ecosystem in 2026
Goodness Eboh·
When Tests Should Run Headless vs Headed in Playwright
Asjad Khan·
9 Strategies to Get the Most Out of Playwright Test Agents
Joshua Adeyemi·
Customer Success Story: Kittl
Amanda Bennicasa·
Playwright MCP: What It Is, How It Works, and When It’s Worth Using
Dumebi Okolo·
AI Skill: Playwright Best Practices
Walter Galvão·
How To Debug Playwright Tests in CI: The Complete Guide
Dumebi Okolo·
Customer Success Story: n8n
Amanda Bennicasa·
How To Adopt Playwright the Right Way
Asjad Khan·
How To Speed Up Playwright Tests: 7 Tips From Experts
Joshua Adeyemi·
How To Measure Code Coverage in Playwright Tests
Goodness Eboh·
Optimizing Test Runtime: Playwright Sharding vs. Workers
Joshua Adeyemi·
How To Build Reliable Playwright Tests: A Cultural Approach
Asjad Khan·
How to Run Playwright Tests Without the Pain: 14 Lessons Learned after 500+ Tests
Dumebi Okolo·
How to Track the Health of Your Playwright Test Suite
Joshua Adeyemi·
What Is a Flaky Test in Software Testing, and How to Fix It
Asjad Khan·
Debugging Playwright Timeouts: A Practical Checklist
Goodness Eboh·
AWS us-east-1 Outage Report
Andrew Goldis·
Alternative to Microsoft Playwright Workspaces
Currents Team·
Best Playwright Tools to Supercharge Your Testing in 2025
Walter Galvão·
Case Study: Hover
Amanda Bennicasa·
Alternative to DataDog for Playwright Testing
Currents Team·
Alternative to LambdaTest for Playwright Testing
Currents Team·
Alternative to ReportPortal for Playwright Testing
Currents Team·
Introducing Currents MCP Server
Currents Team·
Alternative to BrowserStack for Playwright Testing
Currents Team·
70% CI costs reduction by running Playwright Tests on Spot Instances
Andrew Goldis·
Alternative to Microsoft Playwright Testing
Currents Team·
Currents Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certification
Amanda Bennicasa·
Alternative to Allure Report for Playwright Testing
Currents Team·
Company Update - January 2025
Andrew Goldis·
Currents Achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Certification
Amanda Bennicasa·
From Cypress to Playwright - cost, migration steps, timeline and AI tools
Andrew Goldis·
Cypress vs Playwright for tech leaders: cost and risks analysis
Andrew Goldis·
Cypress vs Playwright - Flakiness Analysis
Andrew Goldis·
Currents Update - May 2024
Andrew Goldis·
Case Study: Ramp Network
Amanda Bennicasa·
Customer Success Story: Runa.io
Amanda Bennicasa·
Playwright Reporter for Currents v1.0.0 ✨
Andrew Goldis·
Case Study: Firstbase
Amanda Bennicasa·
Case Study: Business Insider
Amanda Bennicasa·
Cypress.io Blocking of Sorry Cypress and Currents
Andrew Goldis·
Case Study: Planable
Amanda Bennicasa·
Cypress test replays with Cypress Debugger
Andrew Goldis·
Case Study: Crunchbase
Amanda Bennicasa·
GitHub Actions Matrix Job URL for Parallel Cypress Tests
Andrew Goldis·
Currents has joined TinySeed
Andrew Goldis·
Cypress Dashboard vs Currents - Ultimate Comparison Guide
Andrew Goldis·
Parallelizing Cypress with Jenkins, AWS, and Sorry Cypress
Seth Lutske·
Cypress parallelization tools comparison
Laerte Neto·
Currents is out of Beta
Andrew Goldis·