Chapter 13 – Handling Downloads and File Uploads
File operations are a key part of end-to-end testing. Whether it’s uploading a document, exporting a report, or verifying that a downloaded file exists, Playwright provides robust APIs to handle …
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Chapter 12 – Network Interception and Mocking
Modern web applications are powered by APIs and network requests fetching data, submitting forms, or validating users. When testing such applications, relying on live APIs can make tests slow, unreliable, …
Chapter 11 – Handling Multiple Pages, Tabs, and Frames
Modern web applications often involve multiple pages, pop-ups, or embedded frames. Whether it’s handling an OAuth login window, a payment gateway, or an embedded chat widget, understanding how to control …
Chapter 10 – Waiting and Synchronization
One of the biggest challenges in browser automation is flakiness, when tests pass sometimes and fail other times, even though nothing changed in your code. This usually happens because the …
Chapter 9 – Selectors and Locators
In the last chapter, we explored fixtures a powerful Playwright feature that simplifies setup and teardown for tests. Now that we can prepare and manage test environments efficiently, it’s time …
Chapter 8 – Fixtures and Test Setup/Teardown
In this chapter, we’ll dive deep into fixtures, one of Playwright’s most powerful mechanisms for organizing test setup, teardown, and resource management. Fixtures make it easy to define reusable contexts …