# Michelle Kidby

> Software Development Engineer in Test. Frameworks, AI-driven QE tooling, CI/CD.

I'm a software engineer focused on testing. I build full-stack frameworks and AI-driven tooling to keep CI/CD pipelines fast and reliable.

When I'm not writing code, I'm usually playing music or spending time with my husband.

## Links

- [Home](https://kidby.dev/)
- [About](https://kidby.dev/about/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/kidby)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-k-71864548/)

## Writing

- **2026-06-05** — [Extending Playwright: Mobile, Lighthouse, and Storybook](https://kidby.dev/posts/playwright-fork/): An experiment in extending the core Playwright runner to natively support Appium, inline Lighthouse audits, Storybook discovery, and duration-based test sharding.
- **2026-06-04** — [Benchmarking LLMs on real test-automation work](https://kidby.dev/posts/llm-qa-benchmark/): Twenty models, scored by what their generated tests actually do against a sandbox. They perform exceptionally well at unit-test generation, but stall on the engineering judgment that maintaining a real suite requires.