Smoke Testing Browser Flows in CI/CD Pipelines
Catch deployment breaks before users do by running a minimal, fast set of critical-path checks.
Catch deployment breaks before users do by running a minimal, fast set of critical-path checks.
BDD creates shared agreement on what to build before code gets written.
AI agents need browsers built for their workloads, not for human testing.
How agents see the web depends on what sits between them and the page.
The July 2026 spec makes MCP servers stateless enough for true serverless deployment.
Three transports, one question: which fits your infrastructure and not just your laptop?
Overcome Lambda's size, library, and timeout constraints to run Puppeteer reliably in production.
Launching Chromium adds latency that fundamentally differs from standard serverless cold starts.
Pyppeteer excels at Chrome automation but stumbles on maintenance and deployment.
Playwright's architecture solves serverless cold-start problems Selenium cannot fix.
Web agents need durable checkpoints and idempotent tools to recover from failures.
Real browsers and AI parsing solve the structural mismatch that breaks traditional web scrapers.