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Most CI/CD pipelines have a testing problem that nobody talks about enough. The pipeline runs. The tests pass. The build deploys. And then something breaks in production that the test suite had no business missing. Not a flaky test, not an infrastructure issue. A real gap in coverage that existed quietly for weeks before it mattered. Here's the thing: the pipeline itself is usually fine. The problem is what's feeding into it.

In modern development, speed is one of the primary competitive advantages. Teams release new versions daily, infrastructure is deployed in minutes, and the pipeline from commit to production keeps getting shorter. This creates real business value - but it is also an area where security risks quietly accumulate. The problem is not that DevOps teams ignore security. More often, they are forced to choose between speed and thorough validation. And this choice, made dozens of times each week, gradually builds up security technical debt that sooner or later turns into a real incident.

If your team runs Playwright tests in CI, you already know the npx playwright test drill. It works fine until your suite crosses a few hundred tests. Then things get messy. Flaky reruns stack up. Debugging means downloading trace zip files and opening them on your laptop. Reports? Static HTML files that people stop checking after day 3.