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Building an AI Agent That Debugs Your Tests

From flaky test frustration to automated root-cause analysis

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I am Senior Test Automation Engineer, who is interested in Open Source & Quality at scale.

The Series

1.Why I Built an AI Agent to Debug My Playwright Tests: The problem with manual trace debugging at scale, the first prototype, and the "200 ≠ success" breakthrough that changed everything.

2.Teaching an AI Agent to Reason — Skills, Phases & Dead-End Triggers: Why unconstrained LLMs give bad diagnoses, the 7-phase structured reasoning chain, and pre-programmed guardrails that prevent common misdiagnoses.

3.Securing an AI Agent Against Its Own Input The prompt injection threat model, defense-in-depth with four layers, and why boundary markers beat content deletion.

4.Building Evals — Measuring agent quality, regression detection, and the feedback loop

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Testing and AI

Part 2 of 5

We will explore what can be achieved & optimized in Testing using AI. We will explore LLMs , Agentic AI & research papers in the broad area of Test Automation of IT Systems

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Part 2: Teaching an AI Agent to Reason — Skills, Phases & Dead-End Triggers

How structured Chain-of-Thought stops an LLM from jumping to wrong conclusions