The Complete Course of Playwright Automation

Name: The Complete Course of Playwright Automation
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Learn Web Testing and Automation in a Professional way. Become an expert in Playwright typescript, from ZERO to HERO!

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Last updated 1/2025

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What you'll learn

At the end of the course you will fully master Playwright, for Web Testing and Automation
You will be able to build step by step your own Playwright scripts, understanding all the logic and ending with advanced practical examples and projects
You will become familiar with the work environment, essential commands, and you will master all the phases of the scripting
You will work with with selectors, navigate web pages, and use forms and input fields, interactive elements, etc.
You will learn in a professional way how to implement pop-ups and alerts, work with iframes, debug playwright tests or Create custom page objects
You will master the Handling flaky tests, the Paralell test execution with Playwright and the Playwright tests integration with CI/CD pipelines
You will interacte with web Sockets, capture network traffic with Playwright and conduct Perfomance testing with Playwright, understanding their interpretation
You will learn the Playwright integration with other testing tools
You will be able to practice the content learned in a practical way by following all the steps in the complete exercises, and the practical projects
You will start with the basics and progressively carry out more complex steps until you reach an advanced level and absolute mastery at the end of the course

Course content

5 sections • 19 lectures • 7h 28m total length

Introduction to Playwright and its features17:44
Discover Microsoft Playwright and its cross-browser features across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, plus how to set up environments, write your first test, and run in multiple browsers.
Quiz
Installing and Setting up the development environment17:06
Identify the requirements and install git bash, VS Code, and Node.js to set up the Playwright development environment; learn to run tests across different browsers.
Writing your first Playwright test script and Running test in different browser32:43
Write your first Playwright test script and run it across multiple browsers; install Playwright, Node.js, and VS Code to test in Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

Understanding selectors and how to use them17:38
Explore how selectors power Playwright to target web page elements, focusing on CSS selectors as the core approach, with mentions of XPath, text, and custom selectors.
Navigating web pages with Playwright15:25
Learn to navigate web pages with Playwright using page.navigate, page.reload, page.goBack, and page.goForward to open URLs, click links, submit forms, and move between pages.
Interacting with forms and input fields15:15
Master interacting with forms and input fields in Microsoft Playwright, including filling, clearing, selecting options, checking checkboxes and radio buttons, submitting forms, and triggering events on a sample lead form.
Waiting for elements to appear or become interactable17:08
Learn to wait for elements to appear or become interactable in Microsoft Playwright using wait for selector, wait for XPath, and wait for function with customizable timeouts and polling.

Handling pop-ups and alerts26:29
Master handling pop up messages and alert messages in Playwright, learning when to use each, and implement the corresponding dialog and notification code for browsers.
Working with iframes32:21
Understand what iframes are and how to implement them in Microsoft Playwright by embedding a separate HTML document within the current page, with attention to advantages and disadvantages.
Debugging Playwright tests32:21
Learn how to debug Playwright tests, from reading error messages to using logging, breakpoints, and debugging tools, plus a Java example demonstrating the debugging workflow.
Creating custom Page objects29:24
Explore custom page objects in Microsoft Playwright with Java; learn to identify pages, create a page object class, add methods and properties, and instantiate it to encapsulate web page interactions.

Best practices for organizing and writing tests24:18
Explore best practices for organizing and writing tests in Microsoft Playwright with Java, covering test organization, independence, readability, maintainability, data management, and CI automation.
Handling flaky tests20:53
Explore flaky tests in Playwright automation, definitions, causes, and why they undermine reliability. Learn approaches—debugging, environment stability, isolation, retries, and Java-based implementation in Eclipse to stabilize tests.
Parallel test execution with Playwright28:13
Master parallel test execution with Playwright by running multiple tests simultaneously across threads, processes, or machines to achieve faster, scalable testing with early feedback while managing dependencies.
Integrating Playwright tests with CI/CD pipelines27:35
Learn how to integrate Playwright tests with ci/cd pipelines to automate parallel test execution, configure pipelines, manage dependencies, build, run, report, deploy, and monitor quality.

Interacting with web sockets24:24
Learn to interact with web sockets in Microsoft Playwright, enabling real-time bidirectional communication between client and server, including opening, sending and receiving messages, and closing connections using Java.
Capturing network traffic with Playwright24:14
Learn to capture and analyze network traffic with Microsoft Playwright, monitoring data packets to troubleshoot, optimize performance, and log network requests during automated tests.
Performance testing with Playwright23:17
Learn performance testing with Playwright: measure speed, responsiveness, and efficiency of web apps; covers script development, load testing, metrics, analysis, and a Java code example.
Integrating Playwright with other testing tools21:46
Learn how to integrate Playwright with other testing tools to enable end-to-end UI testing, cross-browser coverage, and seamless CI/CD, with examples in Java.

Requirements

Having basic notions of Playwright can help, but the course starts from scratch
Download and install needed software and work environment (if you don't know how, don't worry, it's very easy, free and I'll explain it to you in the course!)
A decent computer and of course, desire to learn!

Description

Become a Microsoft Playwright professional and learn one of employer's most requested skills nowadays!

This comprehensive course is designed so that students, developers, automation testers, engineers... can learn Playwright from scratch to use it in a practical and professional way. Never mind if you have no experience in the topic, you will be equally capable of understanding everything and you will finish the course with total mastery of the subject.

After several years working as an Engineer, I have realized that nowadays mastering Microsoft Playwright is very necessary in web testing, web automation, or other development applications. Knowing how to use this language can give you many job opportunities and many economic benefits, especially in the world of the development.

The big problem has always been the complexity to perfectly understand Playwright automation requires, since its absolute mastery is not easy. In this course I try to facilitate this entire learning and improvement process, so that you will be able to carry out and understand your own projects in a short time, thanks to the step-by-step and detailed examples of every concept.

With 7.5 exclusive hours of video, this comprehensive course leaves no stone unturned! It includes both practical exercises and theoretical examples to master Playwright. The course will teach you Web Automation Testing in a practical way, from scratch, and step by step.

We will start with the installation needed software on your computer, regardless of your operating system and computer.

Then, we'll cover a wide variety of topics, including:

Introduction to Playwright and course dynamics
Download and Install the needed software and configuring it
General familiarization with the work environment and commands
Writing your first Playwright test script and running tests in different browsers
Working with selectors, navigating web pages, and using forms and input fields, interactive elements, etc.
Implementing pop-ups and alerts, working with iframes, debugging playwright tests or Creating custom page objects
Handling flaky tests
Paralell test execution with Playwright
Integrating Playwright tests with CI/CD pipelines
Interacting with web Sockets
Capturing network traffic with Playwright
Perfomance testing with Playwright
Integrating Playwright with other testing tools
Mastery and application of absolutely ALL the functionalities of Playwright
Practical exercises, complete projects and much more!

In other words, what I want is to contribute my grain of sand and teach you all those things that I would have liked to know in my beginnings and that nobody explained to me. In this way, you can learn to build a wide variety of web automation testing projects quickly and make versatile and complete use of Playwright typescript. And if that were not enough, you will get lifetime access to any class and I will be here to help you.

Learning Microsoft Playwright has never been easier. What are you waiting to join?

Who this course is for:

Beginners who have never used Playwright before
Developers, automation testers, engineers, students... who want to learn a new framework for Web Testing and Automation
Intermediate or advanced Playwright users who want to improve their skills even more!

The Complete Course of Playwright Automation

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Course content

Introduction to Playwright3 lectures • 1hr 8min

Basic Playwright Concepts4 lectures • 1hr 5min

Advanced Playwright Concepts4 lectures • 2hr 1min

Writing Robust Tests4 lectures • 1hr 41min

Extra Advanced Playwright Topics4 lectures • 1hr 34min

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