I cut a 300-test visual suite from seven hours to under two — on an 8 GB VM that used to fall asleep mid-run. The fast part is the headline. The hard part was that the engine, like almost every visual-automation tool, was built for a single screen. Here’s how I rebuilt isolation on top of it — and how we’re going to make it native.
Static analysis classified 19 findings as Error on a 17-year-old Java codebase. After triage: zero observed user impact in fifteen years. Meanwhile, 53 NumberFormatException catches missing in production code are classified Note. The severity system is broken in both directions.
An OculiX user filed a bug. Typing two Chinese characters into an input field silently produced garbage. The fix took fifteen lines of Java, but the explanation reaches back to how AWT was designed thirty years ago around the assumption that one character equals one keystroke. Here is what happens when that assumption meets the rest of the world.
A weekend afternoon of measurement turned into a structural optimization for OculiX: persistent locator coordinates embedded in the PNG file itself, surviving git clone and cold-start JVMs. Measured ×6.5 on the find. Here is what we found, what we built, and what it changes for visual automation suites in CI.
A 4-hour Claude Code session refactored DOMAutopsy from a desktop tool to a web-streaming runner. AI shipped about 4000 lines. Here are the five architectural calls it couldn’t make.
