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Plain-English Playwright tests, plus an interactive workshop on quality leadership. 
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November 2026 Newsletter

Agentic development is entering its "Accountability Era," according to research from Forrester. As AI code generation outpaces verification, the bottleneck isn’t speed—it’s trust. This month's newsletter focuses on governing agentic development in practice: defensible release criteria, deterministic Playwright tests in plain English, and CI/CD guardrails to catch what AI coding assistants break.

FEATURED RESEARCH
Forrester's Predictions 2027: Software Development

Global research and advisory firm Forrester predicts more than one tech giant will suffer a public production meltdown in 2027 because AI-generated code was shipped without sufficient testing. The root cause isn't bad AI—it's that code generation has outpaced accountability practices like review, testing, and rollback. Access this report <https://marketingemail.applitools.com/NTkzLUFEUC0yNDkAAAGlZO8IOxw-ECgL4M1QnH0waaA_bpYl9tiT5puaqqxYkKT5J_wrnZOH8fjQHPC4z5dFIJbrM58=> to discover provenance, rollback, and sign-off guardrails needed to safely absorb high-velocity agentic deployments.

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HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Leading Quality in the Age of AI

Shipping faster with AI coding assistants means nothing if you can't verify that a release is actually safe. On November 19, join quality engineering leader Laveena Ramchandani for an interactive, hands-on workshop on establishing real AI quality governance. Learn how to set deterministic guardrails for agent-authored code, evaluate release readiness, and defend decisions to executive leadership.

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TECHNICAL GUIDE
Testing in plain English: Run deterministically in Playwright

AI-generated tests introduce dense code and brittle selectors that slow PR reviews and break CI. This post explores replacing fragile locators with plain-English steps directly inside Playwright. See how deterministic execution lets teams review tests at a glance and run tests at close to code speed without LLM flakiness or token costs.

Read the guide >> https://applitools.com/blog/plain-english-test-automation-applitools/?utm_source=marketo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=261110-em-newsletter

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Thanks for reading,
The Applitools Team

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