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  • Jul 31, 2026 · 18 min read

    What does "skipped" mean - test statuses review across popular JavaScript runners

    JavaScript test runners share status words and disagree about what the words mean. Playwright and Cypress use "skipped" for opposite cases. Jest carries 7 statuses but not "flaky". This guide translates each runner's vocabulary and shows how runners derive flakiness from attempts.

    Andrew Goldis

  • Product Updates · Jul 30, 2026 · 4 min read

    Introducing Currents' New Pricing

    Cheaper rates, bigger volume discounts, a new self-serve Business plan, and fairer overage. Here's what changed and why.

    Product Updates

    Andrew Goldis

  • Playwright · Jul 22, 2026 · 14 min read

    Playwright API Testing: Patterns That Actually Scale

    Playwright API tests that pass locally still fail in CI? Here's the fixture architecture, per-worker isolation, and observability practices that fix that.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Jul 09, 2026 · 19 min read

    Playwright Component Testing in Large Frontend Codebases

    Not every component needs a real browser. Here's a clear decision framework for when Playwright component testing adds value and when Jest already covers it.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

Jun 2026

  • Playwright · Jun 30, 2026 · 35 min read

    Playwright Custom Reporters: Build Your Own

    A Playwright custom reporter takes 20 minutes to prototype and months to maintain. Here's what it actually takes to build one that holds up in production CI.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Jun 22, 2026 · 5 min read

    Playwright's New --last-failed-file Flag: Re-Run Only Failed Tests in GitHub Actions

    Playwright v1.61 adds --last-failed-file, a flag that makes caching --last-failed in CI simpler and more reliable. Learn how to set it up in sharded GitHub Actions workflows.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Jun 19, 2026 · 25 min read

    Playwright + Feature Flags: Advanced Test Isolation Strategies

    Feature flags break Playwright's isolation model because they live outside the browser context. Learn how to intercept flag evaluation at the network layer, declare flag state as a fixture, and structure parallel runs so no worker can affect another's flag context.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Jun 09, 2026 · 17 min read

    Playwright CI at Scale: What Works in GitHub and GitLab

    Your Playwright pipeline is only as fast as its slowest shard. Learn what GitHub Actions and GitLab CI get right at scale, and the one thing neither solves.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Jun 02, 2026 · 14 min read

    How Playwright Tests Leak Data (and How to Stop It)

    Playwright test data leaks rarely come from bad secrets hygiene, they come from test artifacts, fixtures, and reporters. Here's how to find and close that gap.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

May 2026

  • Playwright · May 27, 2026 · 25 min read

    Playwright Anti-Patterns: What to Watch For

    Most Playwright anti patterns don't show up until your suite scales. Here's how to spot and fix them before CI becomes unpredictable.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · May 15, 2026 · 29 min read

    Playwright testing in Staging vs Production

    A decision framework for splitting your Playwright tests between staging and production — what belongs where, how to configure each, and when production testing isn't worth it.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Product Updates · May 11, 2026 · 1 min read

    Playwright 1.60.0 Release Updates

    Version 1.60.0 of Playwright has been released on May 11, 2026 and introduced a few compatibility issues with Currents. In order to use newer versions of Playwright (>= 1.60.x) update to the new v2 of the Currents Playwright reporter (`npm install @currents/playwright@latest`).

    Product Updates

    Andrew Goldis

  • Playwright · May 04, 2026 · 18 min read

    Designing Playwright Tests That Survive UI Refactors

    Your UI refactor didn't break the app, it broke your tests. Learn how semantic Playwright test design decouples your suite from implementation details for good.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

Apr 2026

  • Playwright · Apr 24, 2026 · 19 min read

    Playwright HTML Reporter: Why It Breaks Down at Scale

    When Playwright suites grow, pass/fail reports stop being enough. Learn what teams need instead for flakiness detection, worker visibility, and trend analysis.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Apr 15, 2026 · 20 min read

    Testing Authentication with Playwright: The Complete Guide

    Learn how to handle secrets, OAuth, MFA, magic links, and parallel CI without flaky runs.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Apr 08, 2026 · 14 min read

    What Breaks When Your Test Suite Grows From 20 to 500 Tests

    Learn what breaks when a Playwright suite scales from 20 to 500 tests, and how to fix it with test data isolation, flakiness math, smarter retries, and faster CI pipelines.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

  • Playwright · Apr 01, 2026 · 29 min read

    The Playwright Network Mocking Playbook

    Playwright mocking is easy to start but hard to scale. Follow this practical guide to learn when to mock, when it becomes risky, and how to reduce mock debt.

    Playwright

    Currents Team

Mar 2026

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  • Playwright · Jan 27, 2026 · 14 min read

    How To Debug Playwright Tests in CI: The Complete Guide

    Struggling with Playwright tests failing only in CI? Here's how to debug them with tracing, verbose logs, and consistent environments to find the root cause.

    Playwright

    Dumebi Okolo

  • Playwright · Jan 19, 2026 · 21 min read

    How To Adopt Playwright the Right Way

    Thinking about adopting Playwright but don't know where to start? Here's everything you need to be aware about before getting started.

    Playwright

    Asjad Khan

  • Playwright · Jan 07, 2026 · 14 min read

    How To Speed Up Playwright Tests: 7 Tips From Experts

    As Playwright suites grow, runtimes climb and CI slows. Learn strategies on how to speed up Playwright tests and reduce delays in your workflow.

    Playwright

    Joshua Adeyemi

Dec 2025

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Oct 2025

  • Playwright · Oct 30, 2025 · 13 min read

    What Is a Flaky Test in Software Testing, and How to Fix It

    What is a flaky test? Learn why flaky tests cause false failures, waste CI/CD time, and how to fix them to keep your test suite reliable.

    Playwright

    Asjad Khan

  • Playwright · Oct 23, 2025 · 8 min read

    Debugging Playwright Timeouts: A Practical Checklist

    Stuck with Playwright timeouts? Learn how to debug different Playwright timeouts using our practical checklist and stabilize your test suite.

    Playwright

    Goodness Eboh

  • Company News · Oct 23, 2025 · 4 min read

    AWS us-east-1 Outage Report

    This document summarizes the incident, the actions taken to restore service and the preventative improvements we are implementing.

    Company News

    Andrew Goldis

Sep 2025

Aug 2025

  • Playwright · Aug 25, 2025 · 6 min read

    Best Playwright Tools to Supercharge Your Testing in 2025

    Playwright has quickly become one of the most popular frameworks for end-to-end testing. Out of the box it gives you fast, reliable browser automation, but the real power comes from its ecosystem.

    Playwright

    Walter Galvão

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  • Company News · Jan 06, 2025 · 6 min read

    Company Update - January 2025

    In this blog post we share what to expect from 2025 and reflect on our achievements from the previous year.

    Company News

    Andrew Goldis

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  • Product Updates · May 22, 2024 · 5 min read

    Currents Update - May 2024

    May 2024: latest updates from Currents - looking back at the last few months and sharing our plans for the future.

    Product Updates

    Andrew Goldis

Apr 2024

  • Product Updates · Apr 02, 2024 · 8 min read

    Playwright Reporter for Currents v1.0.0 ✨

    We are thrilled to announce the next major release of the most advanced Playwright Reporter. It brings significant improvements: full parallel mode support, step-level reporting stored directly in the cloud, and CI runs orchestration that is up to 40% faster compared to native Playwright sharding.

    Product Updates

    Andrew Goldis

Nov 2023

  • Company News · Nov 13, 2023 · 6 min read

    Cypress.io Blocking of Sorry Cypress and Currents

    On September 27, 2023, Cypress.io activated a blocking that affected Sorry Cypress users and Currents customers. This blog post breaks down the technical implementation of the blocking, analyses the reasons and clarifies Currents position.

    Company News

    Andrew Goldis

Jul 2023

  • Tools · Jul 10, 2023 · 3 min read

    Cypress test replays with Cypress Debugger

    Capture and replay everything that is happening in Cypress during CI runs with a free, open-source plugin. Debug your failed and flaky CI cypress tests by replaying execution traces.

    Tools

    Andrew Goldis

Dec 2022

  • Cypress · Dec 19, 2022 · 2 min read

    GitHub Actions Matrix Job URL for Parallel Cypress Tests

    A tutorial on how to get a GitHub Actions Matrix Job URL in Cypress tests. This is useful for getting a reference to the specific matrix build job from cypress terminal output.

    Cypress

    Andrew Goldis

Nov 2022

  • Company News · Nov 01, 2022 · 5 min read

    Currents has joined TinySeed

    Currents is a TinySeed company! We are joining a year-long accelerator program and a strong community of ambitious founders of bootstrapped SaaS companies

    Company News

    Andrew Goldis

Oct 2022

  • Cypress · Oct 16, 2022 · 18 min read

    Cypress Dashboard vs Currents - Ultimate Comparison Guide

    A detailed comparison guide between Cypress Dashboard and the most popular alternatives - Currents and Sorry Cypress. Pricing, analytics, orchestration, load balancing, compatibility, parallelization, integrations and unit economics are compared between the solutions.

    Cypress

    Andrew Goldis

Mar 2022

  • Cypress · Mar 01, 2022 · 4 min read

    Parallelizing Cypress with Jenkins, AWS, and Sorry Cypress

    If you're using Jenkins, and you have access to cloud compute resources, you can run cypress in parallel across multiple virtual machines. This will significantly cut down your cypress run time. This article is a recipe for how to do that.

    Cypress

    Seth Lutske

Dec 2021

  • Tools · Dec 12, 2021 · 6 min read

    Cypress parallelization tools comparison

    Overview of the best strategies for cypress tests parallelization and test execution tracking. I investigated Cypress Dashboard, Sorry Cypress, Currents, Cypress-Parallel, and a manual parallelization approach.

    Tools

    Laerte Neto

Nov 2021

  • Product Updates · Nov 01, 2021 · 2 min read

    Currents is out of Beta

    After 6 months of continuous improvements and 20+ millions of cypress tests recorded, we are excited to announce that Currents.dev is out of beta!

    Product Updates

    Andrew Goldis