Editorial policy

This publication may accept sponsorships, advertising, affiliate partnerships, or other commercial relationships with software companies. Those relationships do not guarantee positive coverage or determine our editorial conclusions. Reviews, comparisons, and recommendations are based on the criteria described in each article.

The SDET Notebook is written as a working tester’s notebook, not as a press release feed. I try to make each article useful to someone who has to choose a tool, fix a flaky suite, or explain an automation decision to a team.

When reviewing Selenium, Playwright, CI/CD services, AI testing tools, or related utilities, I look at practical questions: how quickly can it be set up, how clear are the docs, what breaks first, how easy is debugging, how well does it fit into a real pipeline, and what maintenance cost does it create later?

I may use small demo projects, public documentation, trial versions, open source examples, or practical experiments to form an opinion. If a post is based on a limited test rather than long-term production use, I try to make that clear.

Opinions may change as tools improve. Testing frameworks, browser automation APIs, and AI-assisted tooling move quickly, so older articles may be updated or replaced when better information is available.

I do not claim that one tool is best for every team. A small startup, a regulated enterprise, and a solo QA engineer often need different tradeoffs. The aim is to explain those tradeoffs clearly so you can decide what fits your context.