Webinar on Self-Driving Regression: An Agentic Approach with Appium MCP and Playwright MCP by Somu Suryanarayanan
We're excited to announce the upcoming TTTribeCast Webinar: "Self-Driving Regression: An Agentic Approach with Appium MCP and Playwright MCP" by Somu Suryanarayanan.
When is it happening? 30th June 2026 | Tuesday | 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM (IST)
What will Somu speak about:
Self-Driving Regression: An Agentic Approach with Appium MCP and Playwright MCP
This session looks at how agentic automation can take over web and mobile regression. We start with the regression tax: the slow 3-day cycle, the manual triage, and the flaky reruns nobody trusts. We then cover why scripted suites hit a wall and make the case for handing regression to agents instead. The core of the talk is how it actually works, with Appium MCP driving mobile and Playwright MCP driving web, interpreting intent rather than hard-coded steps and adapting when the UI shifts. We spend real time on the hard part, keeping an agentic suite trustworthy instead of confidently wrong, before closing with results, how adoption spread across teams, and an honest look at what broke along the way.
Key takeaways
When agentic regression beats scripted automation, and when it does not
How Appium MCP and Playwright MCP fit together across mobile and web
Where agentic testing fails in practice, and the lessons that reshaped the approach
The guardrails that keep an agentic suite trustworthy instead of confidently wrong
A real before-and-after: a 3-day cycle moved to a single day
About Somu Suryanarayanan, Engineering Leader – Agentic AI Tools & Automation at CookUnity
Somu Suryanarayanan is an Engineering Manager leading Quality and Tools Development at CookUnity, where he builds AI-powered testing systems, agentic automation frameworks, and developer productivity tools for a team of 50+ engineers. Over 15 years, he has led quality engineering transformations at PayPal, Life360, MyVest, and multiple high-growth startups — evolving teams from traditional manual testing to AI-augmented quality engineering. His current work focuses on driving LLM and AI adoption across engineering organizations, building autonomous API testing agents using Claude and GPT, AI-driven flaky test detection systems, and integrating machine learning into CI/CD pipelines for intelligent quality gates. He has helped both internal teams and external partner companies adopt AI-first development and QA strategies, and has built reusable agentic framework templates that multiple engineering organizations use today. He is an IEEE Professional Member.
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