STARWEST 2026 - Test Automation
Wednesday, September 23
Automating the Migration: Scaling Cypress to Playwright Migrations with AI-Driven Velocity
PreviewThe decision to migrate from Cypress to Playwright is often stalled by the sobering reality of the manual effort required to rewrite extensive test suites. Traditionally, this involves months of tedious refactoring and logic translation that drains engineering resources and delays critical innovation. In this session, Ryan Song reveals a high-velocity framework designed to automate the heavy lifting of framework transition using Generative AI. He will move beyond simple prompts to explore a structured AI pipeline capable of handling complex asynchronous logic, custom commands, and...
Herding Cats in the Cloud: QA Strategies for Non-Deterministic "Agentic" Workflows
The era of "AI Agent writes code" (2025) is over. In 2026, we face the reality of Agentic Orchestration, where autonomous agents (Sales, Support, Operations) interact to execute complex, non-deterministic workflows. As QA leaders, how do we test a system where the output changes every time it runs? Traditional "Given-When-Then" assertions are obsolete. A critical failure is "State Synchronization Failure" (Agent A using stale data updated by Agent B)—a distributed systems bug that conventional automation cannot detect. This session explores Agent Reliability Engineering. Gregory will...
Automating Quality at Scale: Test Strategies for Video Streaming Platforms
Video streaming services must deliver consistent playback, picture quality, and low latency across many devices, networks, and regions—but manual testing of every combination does not scale. Teams often struggle with flaky scripts, unclear coverage, and slow feedback when releasing frequently. This session addresses that gap by walking through a practical approach to streaming test automation. Suresh Kumar Palus will share how his team defined testable quality criteria (e.g., start time, buffering, bitrate behavior, and basic accessibility of player controls), chose automation layers (API...