What if exploratory testing could run on its own? 🤔
That’s exactly what our CTO Michael Bodnarchuk (@davert ) explored while building Explorbot — an open-source AI-powered testing agent that navigates web apps like a real user.
Instead of following rigid predefined scripts, Explorbot:
▫️ Reads the UI and discovers flows on its own
▫️ Tests CRUD actions, filters, forms, and edge cases
▫️ Tries unexpected inputs, SQL/JS injections, weird characters, and hidden paths
▫️ Converts successful flows into real Playwright or CodeceptJS tests
One of the most interesting parts?
Explorbot generates around 30–50 meaningful tests per hour while running continuously in parallel sessions 🚀
And it’s not about replacing QA engineers or regression suites. It helps cover the areas teams usually don’t have time to revisit:
✔️ New features
✔️ Low-coverage areas
✔️ Forgotten admin pages
✔️ Edge-case behaviour
Even better — the project is completely free and open source, so teams can run it locally, in CI, or on their own infrastructure.
Really exciting direction for automated exploratory testing 👀
Worth reading the full article if you want to see how it works behind the scenes: testomat.io/blog/meet-automa…#QA#TestAutomation#Playwright#CodeceptJS#TestingTools#Testomat
🚀 This is what we’ve been waiting for.
CodeceptJS 4 is finally here and honestly… this is a reason to celebrate 🥳🍾
Agentic-ready, AI-friendly, and built for meaningful end-to-end testing 🤖✨
The future of testing just got a whole lot more exciting 🔥
CodeceptJS made BDD-style testing accessible. We're extending that philosophy with AI that writes the tests from user stories directly. No more writing step definitions by hand. Would love to compare notes!
I am in process of something much bigger like self writing tests.
However, my aim is to focus on cheapest and fastest models like gpt-oss-20b
This is my new project on it
github.com/testomatio/explor…
For me experience, AI already has good knowlegde of PW API so can perform these tasks without MCP
At least in @codeceptjs this worked for 1.5 years...
What benefits mcp can bring, what are your thoughts?