There's a specific frustration that QA engineers know well. You open the CI dashboard, the automated system that runs your tests every time someone pushes new code, and you see red. Failures everywhere. You pull up the logs expecting a real bug, and instead find a broken locator. A locator is how a test script finds an element on a webpage: a button, a field, a dropdown. It might say "find the element with ID submit-btn." But a developer renamed that button last Tuesday. The feature works fine. Your test just doesn't know that yet. So you spend forty minutes fixing something that wasn't broken. Then you write it up, re-run it, and three weeks later, the same thing happens somewhere else. This is everyday automated QA work. And it's a problem of maintenance overhead, not skill. What Breaks in Testing (And Why) Automated testing means writing scripts that check your app's behavior, so you don't have to click through the UI manually every time you ship something. The promise is speed and reliability.…