Updates & Insights
Guides, tutorials, and news about Monito and developer tooling.
Record-and-playback testing is dead — and the recording was always the problem
Record-and-playback testing feels like automation until the first redesign, when the recording breaks or, worse, silently passes. Here's why the recorded artifact was the liability all along — and what to keep instead of a suite of brittle click-paths.
Testing in production is real. It is not a QA strategy.
Testing in production catches things staging never will. It also catches them after a real user already hit the bug. Why testing in production is a supplement to pre-merge verification, not a replacement for it — and the specific bug classes each one owns.
How to test checkout address validation: formats, tax, and shipping the happy path misses
How to test checkout address validation without writing scripts: international formats, missing and reordered fields, invalid postcodes, region-based tax, and shipping methods that recompute the total. The rules the happy-path test never touches, in plain English.
Monito now tests beyond login: roles, 2FA and repeatable setup
Test authenticated workflows with Monito: roles, saved sessions, 2FA, email login, setup and cleanup. Includes 11 example scenarios.
How to test 2FA/TOTP login: what an agent can actually verify
Most guides on how to test 2FA/TOTP login start by generating the code. That's the least interesting part. Here's how to test the enforcement, lockout, backup codes, and disable flow around TOTP in plain English — and an honest note on what a browser agent can and can't do with a rotating code.
How to test CSV export: the filters, the row count, and the download that lies
Testing CSV export isn't 'click export, get a file.' It's whether the export honors your active filters, matches the row count on screen, and doesn't silently fail on an empty state. Here's how to test CSV export from the browser, in plain English — and where the honest limits are.
How to test session timeout: idle logout, token reuse, and the back button
Session timeout isn't 'wait and get logged out.' It's whether the token is actually dead, whether a submit after expiry is refused, and whether the back button still shows private data. Here's how to test session timeout end to end in plain English.
We Benchmarked 8 LLMs as QA Agents. The Evals Debugged Our Harness First.
250+ real browser-agent test runs across 11 models: which LLM makes the best QA agent, what evals actually catch — and why our default has already changed twice.
How to test subscription billing changes: proration, downgrades, and the invoice
Upgrades, downgrades, and mid-cycle plan changes are where SaaS billing quietly leaks money. Here's how to test subscription billing changes end to end — proration, plan-limit enforcement, and invoice history — in plain English, no scripts.
A Reflect alternative for teams who don't want a test suite to maintain
Reflect (now SmartBear Reflect) is a mature record-and-maintain testing platform spanning web, mobile, API, and visual. If you'd rather describe a flow and run it than build and heal a suite, here's an honest Reflect alternative — with their real published details, not invented pricing.