TL;DR: The checkout flow test passes on your machine, passes in your demo to the team, and then fails at 3am in CI every single day for two weeks. You dig into the logs and find a different failure mode each time — sometimes it's a missing element, sometimes a timeout, sometimes the te 📖 Reading time: ~36 min What's in this article The Real Problem With Recorded Tests The Tools I've Actually Run in Production (My Current Stack) Playwright Codegen: What I Actually Use Day-to-Day Cypress Studio: Good Idea, Inconsistent Execution Selenium IDE: The One You're Probably Stuck With TestCafe Studio: The Underdog Worth Knowing About Head-to-Head Comparison Table When to Pick What: Match the Tool to Your Situation The Real Problem With Recorded Tests The checkout flow test passes on your machine, passes in your demo to the team, and then fails at 3am in CI every single day for two weeks.…