Ilya Ploskovitov articles - 16 total
Please, Stop Redirecting to Login on 401 Errors 🛑
You spend 15 minutes filling out a long configuration form. You get a Slack notification, switch...
I got tired of guessing why my server crashed: Building a "Smart" Monitor with Global Checks & JSON Validation
TL;DR: Basic uptime tools just tell you "It's down." I wanted a tool that tells me why (DNS? SSL?...
Stop Building "Zombie UI": The Resilient UX Checklist (Playwright + Python)
The Problem: The "Zombie UI" 🧠 You click "Submit". The database is writing data. The API is...
💥 Break your API before your users do. Automated Network Chaos for CI/CD.
The Story: Why I built Chaos Proxy We've all been there. The feature works perfectly on localhost....
Announcing Chaos Proxy API: Automate Network Chaos in CI/CD 🚀
Moving Beyond "Localhost" Testing Until now, Debuggo has been a fantastic tool for manual testing....
The "Spinner of Death": Why Localhost Latency is Lying to You
The "Localhost" Bias We've all been there. On your machine, the API responds in 5ms. The UI...
Stop Testing Success. Kill the Database. 🧨
Intro to Chaos Engineering for QA. Learn how to test resilience by injecting failures with Docker...
Why "Record and Playback" is Dead (And Why I'm Betting on Natural Language)
Hey dev.to! It's Ilya from Debuggo again. Let's talk about the "elephant in the room" of test...
Don't Break Your WiFi: How to Simulate 503 Errors in a Single Browser Tab
Testing frontend error handling is a pain. You want to verify that your React/Vue app shows a nice...
Stop Mocking Everything: How to Test API Resilience in Your Terminal (Curl + Chaos Proxy)
"It works on my machine." We've all said it. But does your bash script work when the third-party...
My AI Stopped "Guessing" and Started "Thinking": Implementing a Planning & Reasoning Architecture
In previous articles, I talked about how I generate tests using LLMs, parse Swagger schemas, and...
My AI Bot Argues With My Swagger Schema (And Why That's Good)
In my last posts, I talked a lot about UI tests. But the real meat (and the real pain) of...
Why Hardcoded Values Are Killing Your Tests
Previously I talked about how I was tired of "flaky" tests and how I'm using AI to generate test...
I Timed It: How I Created a 20-Step E2E Test in 6 Minutes (Using Debuggo)
Hey dev.to! Ilya here again. In my Previous article, I explained my reasons for no longer...
At First, I Asked AI to Write Code. That Was a Mistake
Hey dev.to! Ilya here again. In my first article, I shared how I got tired of fixing old, "brittle"...
I Spent Months Trying to "Revive" Our E2E Tests. Now I'm Building My Own AI Tool.
__ My name is Ilya, and I'm a QA Engineer. To be exact, I'm the only QA on my team. You know what...