#3 Digest
This week’s round-up dives into crafting truly scalable Playwright test suites with modular design and cloud-powered parallel runs, while unpacking some tricky quirks like waitForResponse and Safari UI fixes. You’ll also get fresh perspectives on integrating Playwright smoothly into CI pipelines and balancing design fidelity with automated checks—plenty of solid tactics and tools to sharpen your testing game.
Playwright MCP Servers Explained: Automation and Testing
This article explains the two types of Playwright MCP servers—one for browser automation and another integrated with Playwright Test for testing—with details on their usage, installation, and differences.
Playwright MCP for Mobile App Testing
This article explores how Playwright combined with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enhances mobile web and hybrid app testing by enabling AI-driven, context-aware automation that improves test resilience, reduces maintenance, and supports complex mobile scenarios.
Vibe testing with Playwright
This article explores using Playwright's AI capabilities via the Model Context Protocol and GitHub Copilot to automatically generate, run, and debug end-to-end tests for a real web application, demonstrating practical quality and improvements.
Tired of eyeballing Figma vs Storybook? Here’s how I gate design fidelity in CI
This article introduces uiMatch, a CLI tool that uses Playwright to automate visual comparisons between Figma designs and Storybook implementations, including CI integration to enforce design fidelity with pixel and text diffing.
Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright
This article provides an in-depth comparison between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright, highlighting their architectures, use cases, and differences in component and end-to-end testing approaches.
Skills, MCPs, and Commands are the same context engineering trend
This article explains the concept of Skills, MCPs, and Commands as context engineering tools for AI agents, focusing on how Playwright can be used effectively through Skills versus MCPs to enable browser automation with efficient context usage.
How to Writing Scalable Playwright Test Scripts in 2026
A comprehensive guide on writing scalable and maintainable Playwright test scripts in 2026, covering modular design, efficient locators, parallel and cross-browser testing, CI/CD integration, flaky test handling, and cloud-based scalability with BrowserStack.
Playwright vs. Cypress: Core Concepts and Architectural Differences (2026 Guide)
This article provides an in-depth comparison of Playwright and Cypress architectures, performance, language support, debugging tools, and best use cases, helping developers choose the right E2E testing framework based on their needs.
How to Run Playwright in CI Pipeline
This article explains in detail how to integrate Playwright end-to-end tests into a CI pipeline, covering setup, caching, running tests, and uploading failure artifacts to improve frontend reliability before production releases.
Playwright JavaScript: Everything you need to know in 2026
A comprehensive 2026 guide to Playwright with JavaScript covering setup, core concepts, writing tests, debugging, CI/CD integration, scaling test suites, and cloud execution with BrowserStack.
Playwright Quirks — waitForResponse
This article explains how to effectively use Playwright's waitForResponse method for waiting on backend responses in tests, including practical usage patterns and a proof-of-concept example.
Fix Safari UI Bugs with Playwright
This article shares a practical experience of using Playwright to identify and fix a UI layout bug specific to Safari on macOS by leveraging Playwright's WebKit testing support from a Windows environment.
Singleton Pattern issue in playwright browser
This article explains issues with using the singleton pattern when managing Playwright browser instances, particularly how the immutable 'headless' setting causes conflicts, and proposes creating separate PlaywrightBrowserManager instances to avoid these problems.
Building a Comprehensive E2E Test Suite with Playwright: Lessons from 100+ Test Cases
A detailed, experience-based guide on building a robust Playwright E2E test suite covering complex scenarios like authentication, OAuth mocking, async components, and test data cleanup, with practical code examples and architectural insights.