Thesis: Can AI Agents Replace the Tester? Comparing LLM Browser Agents and Scripted End-to-End Tests

High Level Description End-to-end (E2E) tests verify that a web application works the way a user experiences it. They are valuable but expensive: scripted tests (e. g. , Playwright, Cypress) take time to write, break when the user interface changes, and only find the bugs someone thought of in advance.