Everyday AI Coding: Skills & Plugins for Testers
Practical skills and plugins for quality engineering work
Ministry of Testing · Technical Workshop · July 30, 2026
Agent Skills · Test Automation · Playwright · TypeScript · Developer Experience
I ran a technical workshop for the Ministry of Testing community on putting AI skills and plugins to work in a tester’s daily workflow. It sets the vocabulary first, then walks through the problem teams keep hitting: re-explaining the same conventions on every task, and how one skill captures them for good. A live demo builds a Playwright framework for the Sauce Demo app and puts a skill-guided run next to one without. The close marks where the automation helps and where a tester still reviews what it produces.
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Authoring typed, reusable skills for LLM-powered test generators.
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Connecting AI tools to Playwright, Cypress, and CI/CD pipelines.
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Choosing where automation helps and where human review is still required.