#1 Digest
This week’s lineup is packed with practical tips for leveling up your Playwright game, from handling tricky popups and mastering cousin locators to integrating AI-driven automation in your test pipelines. We’re also diving into optimized E2E strategies for real-world apps and fresh approaches to authentication without piling on dependencies—plenty to sharpen your toolkit and workflows.
AI Meets Test Automation: Expert Insights on Playwright
An expert interview on Playwright Agents in version 1.56 explains how AI-powered Planner, Generator, and Healer agents automate and improve test lifecycle management, discussing integration, challenges, and practical usage.
🤖 The Agentic QA Stack: How Playwright Fits into the AI-Driven Testing Pipeline
This comprehensive article discusses the emerging concept of agentic QA—AI-driven, adaptive test automation built on Playwright's capabilities—explaining architecture, implementation patterns, and integration with AI to enhance testing strategies.
Using AI in Playwright Tests
This article explores integrating AI with Playwright for enhanced visual testing by using OpenAI's API to analyze webpage screenshots and validate UI elements, offering a novel approach to automate difficult-to-test visual components.
Playwright + AI: Smarter Test Automation
This article discusses how integrating AI with Playwright enhances test automation by enabling self-healing tests, smarter test generation, and improved reliability and efficiency in QA workflows.
Ship quality end-to-end tests today with Playwright MCP
This article explains how to leverage Playwright's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server combined with AI models to efficiently bootstrap and refine maintainable end-to-end browser tests, including practical guidance on prompt construction and environment setup.
Angular Testing has finally evolved! 🥳
This article introduces Vitest as the new default testing framework for Angular and highlights Testronaut, a new tool for Angular component testing using Playwright’s API, providing real browser environment testing and visual debugging.
Angular's Testing Revolution: Vitest, Fake Timers & Testronaut
This article explores Angular's upcoming testing changes with Angular 21, highlighting Vitest as the new default testing framework, the deprecation of Zone.js-based async testing, and introduces Testronaut, a community-driven Playwright Component Testing solution for Angular without Vite.
Load testing with Playwright - Artillery.io
This article explains how to use Artillery with Playwright to perform load testing by running Playwright scripts at scale, including setup, configuration, resource considerations, and key differences compared to traditional Playwright Test Runner tests.
Applying E2E Testing Lessons to Chart.js + Alpha Vantage
This article shares practical lessons learned from previous E2E testing with Playwright, demonstrating how to efficiently write reliable, focused tests for a Chart.js page that integrates Alpha Vantage data, highlighting test optimization and best practices.
How To Set Up Next.js 15 For Production In 2025
This comprehensive guide walks through setting up a production-ready Next.js 15 application with emphasis on Playwright for end-to-end testing, including configuration, usage, and CI/CD integration.
Optimizing HERE Maps E2E Tests and Handling PR Feedback
This article chronicles optimizing Playwright end-to-end tests for HERE Maps in an open-source project, focusing on improving test efficiency, precision, and maintainability through iterative PR feedback.
Authentication in Playwright: You Might Not Need Project Dependencies
This article introduces an improved Playwright authentication pattern using @global-cache/playwright to authenticate on demand per role, reducing setup time and complexity compared to the default project dependency method.
Cousin locators in Playwright
This article explains how to use 'cousin' locators in Playwright to reliably target specific elements within repeated components, improving locator robustness by filtering based on unique related elements.
How to Manage Unexpected Popups in Playwright Testing
This article explains how to use Playwright's addLocatorHandler function to detect and handle unpredictable popup overlays during automated tests, with a practical example and sample code.
Model-Based Testing with Playwright - TechNotes
This article introduces Model-Based Testing (MBT) using Playwright and XState to create state machine-driven automated tests, demonstrating how to model app states and transitions and generate comprehensive test suites automatically.
🌍 Automating Africa’s Energy Data Collection Using Python, Playwright(+Why Playwright ?), and MongoDB (2000–2024)
This article details building a robust ETL pipeline using Playwright to scrape dynamic energy data from the Africa Energy Portal, highlighting techniques for handling JavaScript rendering, Cloudflare protection, and structured storage in MongoDB.
How to setup Playwright with TypeScript
This article begins a multi-part series on building a Playwright test automation framework using TypeScript and the Component Page Object Model (CPOM) design pattern, covering environment setup, folder structure, and login fixture implementation.
AI CY Prompt, Playwright Reliability, AWS Down and More
This podcast episode from Test Guild covers recent AI advancements in test automation including Playwright-focused AI tools and webinars, integration challenges, and best practices for reducing flakiness and improving test maintenance with AI-driven approaches.
Playwright Shortcuts, Why Testability Matters, AI Agents
This podcast episode covers new Playwright selector shortcuts via Selectors Hub and discusses architectural testability concepts, AI-powered testing tools, and end-to-end testing strategies including Playwright-related enhancements.
Playwright Interview Questions and Answers (My Personal Experience)
This comprehensive 2025 guide provides Playwright interview questions and answers covering beginner to advanced topics such as test parallelization, API testing, fixtures, element handling, and best practices for building scalable Playwright test suites.
Playwright vs Puppeteer
This article provides a detailed comparison between Playwright and Puppeteer, highlighting the advantages of Playwright in cross-browser support, multi-language APIs, network interception, and native mobile testing, helping developers choose the right browser automation tool.