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16.6The Pragmatic AI Testing Stack
| Task | Best Tool |
|---|---|
| Recording interactions | Playwright Codegen |
| Planning and generating structured tests | Playwright Test Agents (planner → generator) |
| Generating test boilerplate | LLM (Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5) with project context |
| Writing comprehensive tests | Human QA engineer (with AI assistance) |
| Debugging failures | Trace Viewer + LLM analysis |
| Fixing broken locators/assertions | Playwright healer agent + human review |
| Exploratory testing | Coding agents driving the Playwright CLI (or MCP) |
| Regression suite execution | Playwright test runner (no AI needed) |
| Visual regression triage | AI classification of screenshot diffs |