Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright

Preface

This book is your hands-on guide to mastering Playwright, Microsoft’s modern automation framework for end-to-end testing. Throughout these chapters, we’ll walk through everything from getting started with Playwright’s core features, such as browser automation, selectors, and locators, to building robust test suites with fixtures, page objects, and test data management. You’ll learn how to run tests in parallel, integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, use Playwright Test for reporting and debugging, and even scale your tests for complex web applications.

When I first started working with automated testing, I remember how it felt like juggling too many things at once: browser versions, test runners, CI pipelines, and that mysterious “timeout ...