Updates & Insights
Guides, tutorials, and news about Monito and developer tooling.
How to test rate limiting without hitting prod
You can't test rate limiting by hammering production — you'll either trip real defenses or DoS yourself. Here's how to verify the limit, the 429, the headers, and the recovery from the consumer's side, in staging, in plain English.
A testers.ai alternative for teams who want depth, not a dashboard of grades
testers.ai points a panel of AI agents at your URL and returns a scored quality report. That's a great audit — but it's a different job than running one critical flow on every deploy. Here's the honest comparison.
File upload testing: the whole surface, in four prompts
File upload is six features pretending to be one button: drag-drop, validation, progress, abort, and a server that can't trust anything the client sent. Here's how to test all of it in plain English, no scripts.
What an AI QA engineer actually replaces (and what it doesn't)
An AI QA engineer isn't a robot that replaces your QA hire. It's a role-shaped capability that covers part of the job and not the rest. Here's the honest line-by-line of what it does, against a real QA job description.
Visual regression testing tools in 2026: pixels, perception, and agents
A 2026 guide to visual regression testing tools, grouped by how they actually decide what changed — pixel diffing, perceptual Visual AI, and agentic visual checks. Honest trade-offs, no fake rankings.
Password reset flow testing: the edge cases that become account takeovers
Password reset is the auth flow attackers reach for first. Here's how to test it end to end — token reuse, expiry, enumeration, session invalidation — in five plain-English prompts, no Playwright.
Playwright vs AI testing: the case against writing your own Playwright tests
Playwright is the best browser-automation library ever built. That's exactly why writing your own Playwright tests is the wrong default for most teams. An honest argument, from someone who likes the tool.
The cheapest AI testing tools in 2026 (and what 'cheap' actually costs)
Most AI testing tools won't show you a price until you book a call. Here's who's actually public, what the real numbers are, and why the sticker price is the cheapest part of the bill.
OAuth callback testing: Google, GitHub, and Microsoft in one prompt each
The OAuth callback is where login quietly breaks — redirect_uri mismatches, dropped state, cancelled consent, expired codes. Here's how to test the Google, GitHub, and Microsoft handshake without writing Playwright.
Why your E2E tests are flaky (and why rerunning them is making it worse)
E2E tests aren't flaky because your team is sloppy — flakiness is structural to pinning scripts onto an asynchronous system. The data on root causes, the math that makes suites rot, and what actually helps.