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This week’s roundup dives deep into how Playwright is leveling up testing for AI-driven apps and smart automation, with fresh tools that help catch bugs earlier and keep flaky tests in check. You'll find practical guides on improving test stability, harnessing AI-powered helpers, and exploring visual regression workflows that make debugging less of a headache. Whether you’re tweaking locators or automating complex browser workflows, there’s plenty here to sharpen your Playwright game.
End-to-End Testing for Agentic AI Applications
This article discusses the importance of Playwright for end-to-end testing of agentic AI applications, highlighting how its features support testing complex AI workflows, decision making, and integration with modern development practices.
Browser Automation Workflows with Playwright MCP and JavaScript
This article explains how to use Playwright MCP with JavaScript to enable AI-driven browser automation, showing setup, command examples, and benefits of structured, natural language-based interactions for testing and automation workflows.
Can Playwright Agents Automate Test Creation, Debugging & Maintenance?
This article explores how automated agents integrated with Playwright can streamline test creation, debugging, and maintenance through AI and heuristic methods, providing practical workflows, benefits, challenges, and best practices for scaling test automation.
How CAMEL Rebuilt Browser Automation: From Python to TypeScript for Reliable AI Agents
This article details the architectural shift of CAMEL AI's browser automation from Python Playwright bindings to a TypeScript-based system, highlighting improvements in snapshot quality, form filling reliability, and performance optimizations crucial for AI agents interacting with web pages.
Fixing Failing Tests Automatically with Playwright’s New Healer Agent
This article explains Playwright’s new Healer Agent, an AI-powered tool that automatically diagnoses, repairs, and re-runs failing tests, improving test maintenance by updating selectors and handling backend issues intelligently.
AI-Powered End-to-End Testing: A New Paradigm for Software Quality Assurance
This detailed article explores integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with Playwright for AI-assisted end-to-end testing, presenting a prototype called E2EGen AI that generates, executes, and maintains Playwright tests from natural language, reducing costs and improving scalability.
ai-wright: AI Steps in Playwright Scripts
This article introduces ai-wright, an open source tool that integrates AI-native actions and verifications into Playwright tests by enabling vision-based reasoning and multi-step planning to handle ambiguous or dynamic UI elements without sacrificing Playwright’s speed and determinism.
Smart Waiting in Playwright: How It Improves Test Stability
This article guides developers on how to properly await for elements when writing their tests. It covers what are smart selectors, how they work, and how to avoid flaky tests.
Playwright Locators - Comprehensive Guide
This article explains how every Playwright selector works and when to use them.
Improve your testing with Playwright soft asserts
This article explains how to use Playwright’s soft assertions to allow tests to continue running after assertion failures, providing examples and best practices for effective test design.
Debugging Playwright Tests with Inspector and Trace Viewer
This article provides a comprehensive and practical guide on debugging Playwright tests using the Inspector and Trace Viewer tools, explaining their features, use cases, and best practices to improve test reliability and debugging efficiency.
Testing svelte5 with vitest and playwright for non svelte-kit projects
This article explains how to set up and use Playwright with Vitest to test Svelte 5 components in non-Svelte-Kit projects, including configuration tips and example test code.
How We Catch UI Bugs Early with Visual Regression Testing
This article details how subito.it implemented visual regression testing using Playwright within their CI/CD pipeline, sharing real-world examples, code snippets, and strategies to handle challenges like dynamic content and flaky tests.
Visual testing with Playwright
This article guides developers on how to perform visual regression testing using Playwright’s built-in screenshot and snapshot features, and further enhances the workflow by integrating Chromatic for interactive, cloud-hosted visual testing and collaboration.
Testing Made Easy: Debbie O'Brien Explains Playwright and its Game-Changing MCP Server
This podcast episode features Debbie O'Brien discussing Playwright and its MCP Server, highlighting how these tools simplify browser automation and testing through natural language commands and AI integration, making Playwright accessible to developers and QAs across multiple languages and skill levels.