Modern browser testing is no longer just about clicking a button and checking whether the next page loads.
Frontend applications now contain animated route changes, Shadow DOM components, dynamic validation, session refresh logic, AI-generated interfaces, visual transitions, and increasingly complex release pipelines.
At the same time, AI is making it easier to generate both application code and automated tests. That sounds like it should simplify testing, but it also creates a new problem: teams can produce more code and more tests without necessarily improving confidence in their releases.
I recently went through several articles that explore these problems from different angles. Here are some of the ideas that stood out.
Some failures only happen when the browser actually renders the page
