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Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright
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Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright

by Faraz K. Kelhini, Butch Mayhew
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
8h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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AI-Powered Test Generation

Writing and maintaining automated tests can be time-consuming, especially when web apps are constantly changing. Luckily, there’s a smarter way to handle it. With the help of AI, we can now generate tests faster, improve reliability, and cut down on the repetitive work that usually comes with test automation.

In this chapter, we’ll start by exploring Playwright Codegen, a tool that turns your clicks and keystrokes into real test scripts, and then show how you can supercharge that experience using GitHub Copilot and Playwright Model Context Protocol (MCP).

You’ll see how you can generate tests just by interacting with a website or even by typing out what you want in plain English. We’ll also explore how to handle ...

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ISBN: 9781806106479