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Shravin Vivek

Shravin Vivek is the Founding Engineer of TestAutomate and built it end to end with Devi Lavanya: the browser agent, the verifier that grades every run, and the pipeline that turns product docs into regression suites. His posts explain the product's design decisions from the inside.

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Posts by Shravin Vivek

Real Browser Testing vs Cloud Browsers

Real browser testing vs cloud browsers: what automated tests actually execute in, what each environment can and cannot see, and why verdicts differ. Sep 10, 2026 · 11 min

The Best AI Testing Tools in 2026, Compared Honestly

We build TestAutomate, so this list of the best AI testing tools in 2026 is graded in the open: real strengths, architectural limits, dated sources. Sep 8, 2026 · 15 min

AI Testing Cost: Engineering the Bill Down

Where AI testing cost actually comes from: how agent runs burn tokens, the four levers that cut the bill, and why credit pricing hides the markup. Sep 2, 2026 · 11 min

How a Test Run Gets Graded, Step by Step

Follow one test run through TestAutomate's grading pipeline, from setup gate to recorded trajectory to a passed, failed, skipped, or blocked verdict. Aug 30, 2026 · 11 min

Testing in Plain English: How It Works

Testing in plain English means the sentence is the test. What a plain-English test stores, how it survives UI changes, and how runs get graded. Aug 30, 2026 · 12 min

Why Regression Suites Break: 5 Failure Modes

Why regression suites break: the five failure modes I keep seeing in real suites, and which are architectural rather than fixable with discipline. Aug 30, 2026 · 11 min

Agentic Testing Guardrails That Matter

The agentic testing guardrails that decide whether a verdict is trustworthy: what an agent may conclude alone, what halts a run, and what waits for a human. Aug 20, 2026 · 10 min

LLM as a Judge Software Testing in Practice

LLM as a judge software testing, from the QA side: why the judge must be separate and skeptical, where bias creeps in, and when deterministic checks win. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

Assumption Flags: UI Changed, Nothing Broke

Assumption flags mark runs where the UI differed from the test's wording but still met the intent. The run passes with a note for a human, not a failure. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

Why Automated Tests Get Blocked, Not Failed

Why automated tests get blocked instead of failed: when setup can't establish preconditions, the run is an environment problem, not evidence against your app. Aug 19, 2026 · 12 min

Computer Use Agents for QA, Explained

Computer use agents for QA, explained by the builder of one: what they are, how a run becomes a graded verdict, and what still needs human eyes. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

Writing Expected Results for Automated Tests

How to write expected results for automated tests an LLM verifier can judge: core vs incidental assertions, and the lint that drops bad tests. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

False Positives in Automated Testing

False positives in automated testing cut both ways, false alarms and false passes. Each needs its own fix: a skeptical verifier and one disclosed retry. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

How Does AI Test Case Generation Work?

How does AI test case generation work? It's only as good as its filters: what our ingestion pipeline keeps, skips, and truncates before tests get drafted. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

Autonomous Bug Reporting to Jira, Explained

Autonomous bug reporting sounds like tickets file themselves, but in TestAutomate every mid-run defect becomes a reviewed candidate, never auto-filed. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

Bring Your Own Key AI Testing, Explained

Bring your own key AI testing means TestAutomate bills your own Anthropic account directly, verified with a live ping before it ever saves the key. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

How Do AI Agents Test Software? A Deep Dive

How do AI agents test software? One drives your app like a real user while a separate model grades the result: deterministic tests, probabilistic runs. Aug 18, 2026 · 11 min

Test Automation Without Selectors, Explained

Test automation without selectors means the agent finds elements on the live page by description each run, not CSS or XPath strings you write and maintain. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min

Generate Test Cases From Documentation

I pointed TestAutomate at Linear's docs to generate test cases from documentation. What it kept, what it filtered, and the one test I had to fix. Aug 20, 2026 · 11 min