22.4Medium-Term (2027-2028)

Autonomous Test Generation at Suite Scale

The agent explores the application and grows the test suite with minimal human scenario-writing. OpenObserve's "Council of Sub-Agents" (8 specialized agents, suite grown from 380 to 700+ tests) was the early production example; Playwright's planner is the commoditized single-agent version. The multi-agent orchestration patterns are covered in the Agentic Testing Architectures topic.

Impact: QA engineers shift from writing tests to reviewing and curating AI-generated tests — and to designing the constraints that keep generation honest.

Full Cross-Browser BiDi

Chrome and Firefox are done; Edge rides Chromium; Safari remains the laggard with partial support. When Safari completes BiDi — and when Selenium 5 ships its high-level BiDi APIs — "one protocol, every browser" stops being aspirational.