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I Built a Hands-Free AI Harness for Migrating Legacy Tests
Community description: Point it at a test spec. Agents do the migration; the harness independently verifies the evidence before a change can ship.
Dev.to | Sep 12, 2026 | Harikrishna V Shetty
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Migrating a large legacy test suite is not a code-generation problem. An agent can translate an old test into modern syntax very quickly. Capture evidence, commit the completed unit, and continue to the next test. The important unit is one test, one verdict. Verify Run the migrated test and capture Playwright’s verdict.
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