Building Vibium Skills That Actually Drive Fixes Introduction This post is about turning a skills system into a real testing accelerator. I wanted a Vibium-only testing skill that would steer an agent away from Playwright and into purposeful negative tests. That meant carving out a dedicated SKILL.md file, proving the description would be recognised byContinue reading “Agent Skills – how to create and test them”
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Enhance Your App with Agent Skills: A Practical Guide
In my previous two blog posts I discuss my learning project of:- * building an initial [Agentic SDLC demo] with Playwright* extending the demo with Vibium In this post, I detail how I added Agent Skills files and the difference this made to the quality of my app. What are Agent Skills? You can readContinue reading “Enhance Your App with Agent Skills: A Practical Guide”
Extending My Agentic SDLC Demo: Adding Vibium Test Support Alongside Playwright
*Posted by Beth Marshall | January 12, 2026 – hand reviewed but drafted by Cursor* After building my initial [Agentic SDLC demo] with Playwright, I wanted to explore supporting multiple browser automation frameworks. This would demonstrate framework flexibility and provide a comparison point between different testing tools. I decided to add **Vibium** support alongside theContinue reading “Extending My Agentic SDLC Demo: Adding Vibium Test Support Alongside Playwright”
How I Built an Agentic SDLC Demo with Cursor, MCP Servers, Playwright, GitHub, and Vercel in Under an Hour.
I’ve been enjoying playing around with all things AI a fair bit of late. I still obviously feel out of my comfort zone with a lot of it, but I wanted to explore one topic that keeps popping up:- the idea of incorporating AI into the whole SDLC. This feels like pie in the skyContinue reading “How I Built an Agentic SDLC Demo with Cursor, MCP Servers, Playwright, GitHub, and Vercel in Under an Hour.”
How to use Playwright and AI to write a blog post
THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BY AI In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to use Playwright and AI to write a blog post.I’ll be using the Playwright MCP extension for VS Code Insiders, which allows you to use natural language to interact with the browser. This means that you can write commandsContinue reading “How to use Playwright and AI to write a blog post”
Exploring MCP Servers: Axe-MCP, cursor and Playwright for AI-Driven Accessibility Testing
I’ve been exploring a few open source MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers recently. TL:DR Here’s a youtube video with how I got on with the Axe-MCP server:- The latest one that caught my eye was Axe MCP – an MCP compatible plugin for automated accessibility scanning. Shout out to Joe Colantonio’s Test Guild for hisContinue reading “Exploring MCP Servers: Axe-MCP, cursor and Playwright for AI-Driven Accessibility Testing”
Experimenting with AI Agents: sending Mailinator emails with Zapier MCP, Goose and CursorAI
So in my recent posts, I’ve been exploring AI and agentic AI:- I heard on the LinkedIn grapevine the news that workflow automation specialists Zapier have embraced the MCP bandwagon and decided to serve up all of their integrations via the MCP route. Thanks for the heads up Angie. This will allow AI Agents toContinue reading “Experimenting with AI Agents: sending Mailinator emails with Zapier MCP, Goose and CursorAI”
Exploring Agentic AI with Block’s Goose and Selenium MCP: Tips and Demos
When I’m not spending my weekends on such life affirming tasks as taking son to football practice, watching Gladiators or drinking wine, I like to indulge in some hands on learning. At the moment its been focussed on chipping away at the ever expanding pool of knowledge surrounding AI and test automation. Here are someContinue reading “Exploring Agentic AI with Block’s Goose and Selenium MCP: Tips and Demos”
New Postman AI Features for Quality Engineers
I’ve done a few posts recently which document my continuing explorations into the world of AI for quality engineering tasks. This will be a very short post, but there are a couple of new developments in Postman that I’ve been meaning to take a look at for the past few weeks. They recently introduced someContinue reading “New Postman AI Features for Quality Engineers”
Exploring AI with GitHub Browser: Tips and Demos
Intro This article discusses how to install and setup a GitHub Browser Use Agent to perform a basic test task. TLDR: Video of how to setup and run GitHub Browser Use Recently, I’ve been knocking around some of the newer tools on the market for AI such as Claude computer use https://beththetester.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/exploring-ai-tools-and-their-applications/. Setup and overviewContinue reading “Exploring AI with GitHub Browser: Tips and Demos”
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