Today, we're releasing a new set of tools for working with Testplane through AI agents: Testplane CLI, Testplane Skill, and major updates to the available interactions.

Testplane now supports test run selectivity — the ability to automatically run only those tests whose dependency files have changed.

Both Testplane and Playwright are end-to-end testing solutions, but they have different approaches and capabilities. In this article, we'll conduct a detailed comparison of these tools to help you make the right choice.

We're excited to present Testplane MCP — a project that allows AI agents to be aware of what's happening in the browser, perform actions, and generate tests based on the real state of the page.

We're presenting a new Testplane UI tool — Time Travel, now stable! Let's talk about this new functionality and what else has been added to Testplane UI recently.

Support for the WebDriver BiDi protocol (the future unified standard for browser automation) has been added in testplane@8.27.0.

Testplane is now able to automatically download browsers for running tests locally. Enjoy a hassle-free start with --local option if you don't need remote browser grid.

We have implemented an extension for [VS Code][vscode] for Testplane, which allows you to configure Testplane from scratch, run tests, and conveniently work with the REPL mode.

Now, for automatic visual testing of your components, you only need Storybook with your components and the @testplane/storybook plugin. There’s no need to write any tests anymore.

In testplane, experimental support for component testing and unit tests running in the browser has been added.