Chapter 18 – Playwright Project
Now that you’ve mastered all aspects of Playwright from basic automation to advanced framework design and CI integration it’s time to bring everything together in a real-world project example. In …
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Chapter 17 – Playwright Advanced Tips and Optimization
As your Playwright test suite grows, it’s essential to make it fast, stable, and maintainable. Slow or flaky tests not only frustrate developers but also undermine confidence in automation. In …
Chapter 16 – Continuous Integration (CI) with Playwright
Automated testing isn’t truly powerful until it runs continuously after every commit, pull request, or deployment. That’s where Continuous Integration (CI) comes in. In this chapter, we’ll walk through how …
Chapter 15 – Playwright Reporting and Test Artifacts
When tests run, visibility into what happened whether they pass or fail is crucial. Playwright provides rich reporting features and automatically captures artifacts such as screenshots, videos, and traces to …
Chapter 14 – Assertions and Validations in Playwright
Assertions are the heart of every automated test, they determine whether your application behaves as expected. Without them, tests can interact with the UI endlessly but never verify if the …
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 …
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 …
Chapter 7 – Page Object Model (POM) Made Simple
In the previous chapter, we learned how to organize a Playwright project with a professional folder structure. Now, it’s time to dive deeper into one of the most powerful patterns …
Chapter 6 – Organizing Tests and Code: Folders, Files, and Naming
In the previous chapters, you learned how to perform actions, make assertions, and use Playwright’s test runner to automate real-world scenarios. Now it’s time to level up your test automation …
Chapter 5 – Assertions and Expectations with the Playwright Test Runner
In the previous chapter, you learned how to perform user interactions like clicking, typing, selecting, and navigating. Now it’s time to learn how to verify that your web application behaves …
Chapter 4 – Basic Actions: Click, Type, Select, Navigate
Now that you understand Playwright’s core components Browser, Context, Page, and Locator, it’s time to start performing real interactions on web pages. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to simulate …
Chapter 3 – Playwright Core Building Blocks
Now that you’ve successfully installed Playwright and run your first test, it’s time to understand the core concepts that make Playwright work. In this chapter, we’ll break down Playwright’s architecture …
Chapter 2 – Installing Playwright, Node, and Your First Example
Welcome to Chapter 2 of Practical Playwright Automation with JavaScript! In the previous chapter, you learned what Playwright is and wrote your very first automation script. Now, we’ll go a …
Chapter 1 – What is Playwright and Why Use It?
Welcome to the first chapter of Practical Playwright Automation with JavaScript. Before we start writing any code, let’s understand what Playwright actually is, why it exists, and how it fits …
Practical Playwright Automation with JavaScript – Digital Book
Welcome to Practical Playwright Automation with JavaScript a hands-on guide designed to help you learn modern browser automation step by step, from the very basics to advanced techniques used in …