TestGuild Automation Podcast Playwright AI Vibe Testing: True Self-healing Tests with Vasusen Patil
Oct 12, 2025
Vasusen Patil, Co-founder and CEO of Donobu, brings a wealth of experience from his engineering roots and automation leadership at Coursera. He introduces "Vibe Testing," an AI-driven method that allows Playwright tests to adapt and self-heal from UI changes intelligently. Discover how this approach minimizes flakiness, enhances tester control, and combines visual assertions with contextual understanding. Vasusen also shares insights on balancing automation with human oversight and the philosophy behind Donobu's local-first model.
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Chatbot Recommends A Competitor
- Vasusen recounts dogfooding Coursera Coach and it recommending a competitor.
- That failure exposed how fragile tests are for partially autonomous features.
Make Tests Match Software Autonomy
- When software becomes partially autonomous, tests must become partially autonomous too.
- Vasusen argues deterministic tests cannot reliably validate non-deterministic systems.
Encode Intent Inside Tests
- Encode the test's intent inside the test so AI can decide safe updates.
- Let the test propose changes and open PRs for human review instead of silently auto-merging.