Master Test Automation using Playwright JS in the age of AI

Discover what Playwright is, its key features and benefits, and why it stands out over other frameworks, with examples of what you can do and how it fits in 2025.

Discover how Playwright blends Selenium, Cypress, and Puppeteer into a powerful framework. See why in 2025, cloud testing providers and recruiters favor Playwright for cross-browser testing and mobile automation.

Explore Playwright, a Microsoft open source framework for end-to-end testing of modern web apps across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, with Chrome, Edge, and Safari on mobile browsers, without extra plugins.

Explore playwright key features: cross-browser support, auto waiting, powerful selectors, multi-language support, headless and headed modes, built-in test runner with parallel execution, network interception, trace viewer, and inspector tools.

Choose Playwright for faster, more reliable tests across multiple browsers and languages. Gain real-world benefits: reduced maintenance, better debugging with trace viewer, and scalable, future-proof testing.

Playwright is fast, reliable, cross-browser, and designed for modern web, reducing test automation pain and enabling scalable, quality delivery; next, install Visual Studio Code, Node.js, and explore the Playwright dock.

Explore practical Playwright use cases, automating login flows for apps like Google or Facebook and testing shopping carts, dashboards, UI responsiveness, network conditions, API responses, and CI/CD integration.

Install Visual Studio Code and Node.js, set up a Playwright project in VS Code, install Playwright browsers, and explore the project structure with an example spec.

Explore core JavaScript concepts essential for Playwright automation, including variables, data types, operators, conditionals, loops, functions, scope, objects, and asynchronous patterns with the event loop, promises, and async/await.

Master core JavaScript concepts for test automation, including data types such as string, number, boolean, string operations, and various operators, conditionals, and loops.

Explore JavaScript functions, including declaration, expressions, and arrow syntax, with parameters and return values. Understand global, block, and local scope and apply these concepts to Playwright automation scripts.

Explore how JavaScript objects organize data with key-value pairs for Playwright automation, storing test data, configurations, selectors, credentials, API responses, including nested objects, methods, and arrays.

Master the event loop, callbacks, promises, and async/await for Playwright automation. Learn why awaiting actions prevents flaky tests and makes tests reliable.

Explore async and await in Playwright automation, learn how promises shape tests, and understand hooks, locators, and session types for your first automated test.

Explore Playwright fixtures and hooks, including built-in and custom fixtures, and see how before all, before each, after each, and after all manage test setup and teardown.

Explore Playwright locators like get by role, text, label, placeholder, alt text, title, and test ID, and master ten assertions including visible, text, count, attribute, enabled, and URL.

Master the page object model in Playwright to separate test logic from UI locators, centralize selectors, and build scalable, maintainable, and reusable test automation with a clear project structure.

Learn to implement a page object model with Playwright through a practical login example on the Demo Place site, defining a login page class, locators, and test flows.

Explore the trace viewer, a built‑in Playwright debugger, and learn to enable tracing and view timeline, screenshots, action logs, dom snapshots, and network activity for debugging tests.

Learn to debug tests with Playwright Inspector, using step through execution and interactive locators. Launch with --debug, then explore step over, assertions, and codegen.

Explore Codegen in Playwright, an auto-recording tool that generates locators, provides live editing, and multi-language support, and learn to record, locate elements, and assert text and values.

Walk through end-to-end automation of a demo site with Playwright, covering login and authentication and PIM tasks such as add employee with profile photo, search, edit, and delete employees.

Automate website authentication with Playwright JS using the page object model, asserting valid and invalid credential flows, with auto wait and robust login procedures.

Automate employee management on a hr site with Playwright JS, using page object models, locators, set input files for uploads, and assertions for valid and invalid file types, name search.

Master test automation with Playwright JS by automating editing and deleting employees using custom dropdowns, form handling, and table interactions.

Explore GitHub actions for CI/CD in Playwright test automation, covering workflows, YAML configurations, events, jobs, steps, actions, and runners, plus prerequisites and a practical demonstration.

Demonstrates setting up and running Playwright tests via GitHub actions, including yaml workflow configuration, headed mode with xvfb, and uploading test results and html reports for ci/cd.

Explore agent AI in test automation, where autonomous decision making, goal understanding, and self-correcting actions enable auto-generated playwright scripts, UI adaptation, and cross-tool orchestration for robust CI/CD and debugging.

Set up a playwright MCP server with a MCP YAML file and AI assistant to create and run your first test in plain English.

Explore the pros and cons of agent K for test automation, highlighting faster plain English test creation, self-healing capabilities, broader exploratory coverage, and costs, maintenance, and debugging challenges.