How I Started Using AI Agents for End-to-End Testing (Autonoma AI)
I’ve been thinking a lot about how broken testing workflows feel right now. Most of the time, writing end-to-end tests is slow, brittle, and honestly kind of painful. You write selectors, they brea...

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how broken testing workflows feel right now. Most of the time, writing end-to-end tests is slow, brittle, and honestly kind of painful. You write selectors, they break when the UI changes, and suddenly half your tests are useless. Recently, I came across Autonoma AI, and it feels like a completely different approach. Instead of writing test scripts, you just describe what you want in plain English. Something like: “Open the login page, enter credentials, and verify the dashboard loads.” And that’s it. Autonoma handles: Running tests on real browsers and devices Detecting elements using AI instead of fragile selectors Automatically fixing tests when UI changes (self-healing) That last part is huge. Anyone who’s worked with tools like Selenium or Cypress knows how annoying broken selectors can be. What’s interesting is that this isn’t just a testing tool — it feels like part of a bigger shift toward LLM-native development. Instead of writing code for everyt