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6 articles tagged “ci cd”.
A two-test Playwright run against Sauce Demo, the JUnit XML it produced, and what PublishTestResults@2 does with that file on its documented defaults — including the pattern that matches nothing and the switch that lets failing tests pass. Then the other half: why publishing results never creates a Test Case, and the CSV format that does.
azure devops · ci cd · playwright
10 MIN
A measured look at Playwright's toHaveScreenshot: how many pixels a real regression changes, why maxDiffPixels: 100 and maxDiffPixelRatio: 0.01 can hide it, what animations: 'disabled' does not freeze, and how to handle baselines in CI.
playwright · visual testing · ci cd
8 MIN
What the keyv and Bitwarden CLI attacks did to CI runners and AI coding agent config files, which defenses we verified on real npm versions (including one that npm 10 silently ignores), and a pull request check for files that run code on folder open.
ci cd · security · github actions
9 MIN
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What a retried flaky test actually looks like in Playwright's list, JUnit, and JSON reporters, how we diagnosed a real one on this site, and a quarantine policy with owners and expiry dates that CI enforces.
playwright · flaky tests · ci cd
11 MIN
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Real defects from this site's own codebase: what the symptom was, which check caught it, the root cause, the fix, and the regression test we added.
case study · playwright · accessibility
6 MIN
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A practical path to tests in CI: the GitHub Actions workflow Playwright generates and what each line does, the additions a real project needs (taken from this site's pipeline), and how to shard a slow suite and merge the results into one report.
ci cd · automation · github actions
9 MIN
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