Playwright Automation: The Ultimate Guide + Framework 2026

Execute playwright tests with npx playwright test, selecting chromium, firefox, or safari projects, headless or headed. Use the UI or VSCode extension to review results and failures.

Learn to debug Playwright tests using command-line debug, the inspector, and a Visual Studio extension with breakpoints. Use the trace viewer to analyze actions, logs, and before-after details for debugging.

Master creating and structuring your first Playwright tests using a tests folder, a page fixture, async actions, navigation, and expect-based assertions, plus describe and hooks.

Master css selectors to target page elements for automated tests, using class, id, attribute, and tag selectors, with practice on Cypress documentation.

Learn to locate and interact with web elements in Playwright using the locator() method, exploring id, class, attribute, and text selectors and CSS selectors on the Swag Lab login page.

Explore Playwright's user-facing locators to write reliable, user-aligned tests using get by role, get by text, placeholders, and data test id attributes.

Master advanced locator techniques in Playwright, using first, last, and index to target elements, and filter by text or by another locator on the Swag Lab products page.

Learn to extract text with text content, get attribute, and input value methods in Playwright, and count multiple elements while organizing locators for reusable, maintainable tests.

Learn to write Playwright assertions with the expect function to verify text, visibility, enabled/disabled state, content, and attributes, including auto retrying, non retrying, timeouts, and soft assertions.

Learn how Playwright auto waits for elements to be attached to the dom, visible, and enabled, with examples of click, input, and text assertions, plus timeouts and load state.

Explore interacting with input fields in Playwright by typing, clearing, extracting values, and asserting results to validate user input behavior in automated tests.

Master radio buttons and checkboxes with Playwright by locating elements with css selectors, selecting options such as mail and Monday, and asserting checked or unchecked states in automated tests.

Learn to interact with dropdowns in Playwright by using the built-in select option for select attributes and by filtering list options for custom dropdowns, selecting Japan and asserting the value.

Learn to handle browser alerts in Playwright by differentiating simple, confirmation, and prompt dialogs, and implement a dialog listener to accept or cancel actions before triggering tests.

Demonstrates performing drag and drop in Playwright using a built-in drag method, selecting draggable and drop targets with page.locator, and asserting the drop changes the text to dropped.

Practice 1 automates login with the standard user, extracts the first product text, filters from z to a, and adds the item to the cart to show one item.

Practice two guides you through automating login with a standard user and secret sauce, extracting the first element's text, adding it to cart, and verifying the item is in cart.

Refactor two practice tests by extracting login and navigation into a beforeeach hook and add named steps to clarify actions, such as navigating to sauce demo website and logging in.

Set up a Playwright test framework using the page object model, create a login page object with locators and actions, and build a simple successful login test.

Build and test a products page with a second page object in a Playwright framework, verify login lands on the products page title, then add to cart.

Create a login fixture in the Playwright framework to reuse authentication across tests, returning an authenticated page and enabling beforeEach setup.

Review the structured Playwright framework with login and products page objects, locators, and actions to enable modular, scalable automation. Extend by adding page-specific tests and a fixtures setup.

Master JavaScript fundamentals from variables, datatypes, and functions to control flow, plus ES6 features and asynchronous programming, then apply practical techniques for objects, arrays, and debugging to automate workflows.

Install Visual Studio Code and Node.js across macOS, Windows, and Linux; create a test.js file, and run JavaScript from the terminal or via the Code Runner extension.

Explore variables and data types in JavaScript, comparing var, let, and const, understanding block scope and reassignment, and mastering primitives like strings, numbers, booleans, undefined, and null.

Discover how JavaScript operators and expressions manipulate data, covering arithmetic, comparison, logical, and assignment operators, plus operator precedence with practical code examples.

Master control flow with if, else, else if, and switch to drive decisions in your code. Explore the ternary operator and age-based pricing examples to make logic concise and dynamic.

Master for, while, and do while loops to automate repetition. Learn to use break and continue to control flow and prevent infinite loops, with practical tasks like summing numbers.

Explore JavaScript strings, including creation with single, double, and backtick quotes, and master concatenation with plus and template literals. Learn string methods like toUpperCase, toLowerCase, trim, and length.

Master JavaScript functions by declaring, invoking, and reusing code with parameters and return values, including arrow functions and function expressions for calculating the area of a rectangle.

Learn to model data with JavaScript objects and arrays, access and update properties via dot or bracket notation, and use push, pop, shift, unshift, map, filter, and reduce.

Master JavaScript error handling with try, catch, and finally, throwing custom errors and robust routines to keep apps running smoothly even when issues arise.

Explore asynchronous programming in JavaScript, including callbacks, promises, and async/await, to manage background tasks without freezing the program.

Learn how JSON as a lightweight, text-based data format enables sharing and storing structured data, and how to parse strings into JavaScript objects with JSON.parse and JSON.stringify.