A Practical Look at the Object Pool Pattern for Playwright Tests
Have you heard of the Object Pool Pattern? It's a helpful way to manage Playwright test resources when running in parallel, as explained by Yevhenii Otsevych.
Furthermore, Kailash Pathak describes how to use Fixtures in Playwright with Basic Example.
Playwright MCP Server: Zero-Code Testing Magic with Cline & Cursor
Have you heard of Playwright MCP? Karthik K.K. demonstrates the abilities of this open-source implementation of MCP protocol for AI-powered browser automation using Playwright.
You can also watch examples of using it for No-Code API, UI & DB Testing and No-Code BDD Testing.
GitHub Copilot Edits + Playwright: AI Agent That Writes & Runs Your Tests!
This time, Karthik K.K. is trying out the new GitHub Copilot Edits feature to generate Playwright tests with AI.
Automating Playwright Tests with YAML: From File Conversion to Execution
To simplify test management, Felipe de Campos came up with the idea of writing Playwright tests in YAML. You can learn more about it in the following part about Assertion and Code Evaluation in Our YAML Testing Framework.
[JS] Playwright - Automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API
I've stumbled upon it this week and there's only one word I can say: FINALLY! If you like Puppeteer, you'll love Playwright. Their goal is to be vendor-neutral and to make the APIs more testing-friendly than Puppeteer. Most importantly, you can now test browsers other than Chrome too!
Fun fact: it's created by the same team that originally built Puppeteer. More fun: Puppeteer is maintained by Google, and Playwright... by Microsoft! Looks like they play it right! 😂
Scaling-out End-to-End Tests with 7Facette & Playwright to Infinity
Interested in testing serverless apps? Patrick Döring shares code examples showing how to test them using two open-source tools: 7Facette and Playwright.
And for more about serverless testing, check out Andy Blackledge's latest article on Step Function integration testing with CDK.
Codeless Web Application Testing with Cypress Studio and Playwright CodeGen
Playwright and Cypress — the two hottest tools for web UI automation — have their own low-code solutions. How do they compare? Eran Kinsbruner tried them out.
Testing/monitoring reddit.com with Playwright! [Automate Together #2, Part 1]
Giovanni Rago started a series of practical tutorials to test automation with Playwright. This 27-minute video focuses on setting up the framework and writing the first test using Chai assertions.
How did I run tests at least 10x faster with Playwright?
Hasan Gürhan shows a few practical tricks on speeding up your Playwright tests, including built-in parallelism, sharding and CI config.
Moreover, Vitaliy Potapov wrote a handy guide to Generating BDD tests with ChatGPT and running them with Playwright.
My Top 10 Great Practices for API Test Automation With Playwright
Having written a great guide on API testing with Playwright, Butch Mayhew shares all practices he learned along the way.
On top of that, Amr Salem describes some handy Tips & Tricks: Mocking APIs With Playwright.
