Explore Before You Automate: Building an AI Agent for Automation Readiness | 4th Europe Huddle
What if an AI agent could explore an application before anyone decided what should be automated?
At The Test Tribe’s 4th Europe Huddle, Pranita Panse will demonstrate an agentic workflow that brings exploratory testing before automation.
Using a user story, project context, QA heuristics, and Playwright MCP, the agent explores a running application and surfaces risks, edge cases, accessibility observations, locator stability, and unanswered questions before automation begins.
Session
Explore Before You Automate: Building an AI Agent for Automation Readiness
Speaker: Pranita Panse, SDET at UIS, University of Cambridge
Pranita will demonstrate how to build an exploratory testing agent using Playwright MCP and a reusable Exploratory Testing Skill.
Starting with a user story and available project context, the agent will explore the application and evaluate:
Risks, validations, positive and negative paths, and edge cases
Accessibility observations and locator stability
Testability using roles, labels, accessibility information, and maintainable Playwright locators
Missing domain knowledge or unclear requirements, surfaced as open questions rather than assumptions
Potential BDD and automation candidates based on what the exploration reveals
The workflow produces an automation-readiness report to help the QA engineer decide what is ready to automate, what needs clarification, and what may be better kept exploratory.
Event Details
Date: 16 October 2026
Time: 04:00 PM CET
Platform: Online via Zoom Webinar. Details will be shared soon.
Agenda
4:00 PM – 4:10 PM: Welcome & Introductions
4:10 PM – 5:10 PM: Session by Pranita Panse on “Explore Before You Automate: Building an AI Agent for Automation Readiness”, including Q&A
5:10 PM – 5:20 PM: Browserstack Spotlight
5:20 PM – 5:30 PM: Event Wrap
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