#9 Digest
This week’s lineup dives into smarter ways to tame flaky tests with Playwright’s smart waits and supercharge your test speed using expert tips and sharding strategies. We’re also exploring how to ditch Cucumber and embrace BDD testing directly in Playwright, plus a peek at automation beyond testing with web scraping examples that show just how versatile Playwright can be.
15 Best UI Testing Tools in 2026 - The Complete List
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the best UI testing tools for 2026, including Playwright, comparing their features, strengths, limitations, and the rise of AI native platforms that reduce maintenance and improve test creation speed.
Playwright BDD Testing Without Cucumber
This comprehensive guide explains how to implement BDD-style testing directly with Playwright without using Cucumber, covering best practices for test structure, scaling, and running tests on BrowserStack.
Playwright Examples for Web Scraping and Automation
This comprehensive article provides practical Playwright examples in both JavaScript and Python for common web automation tasks, including form submission, local storage handling, session reuse, file upload/download, handling popups and dialogs, scrolling, and more.
Optimizing Test Runtime: Playwright Sharding vs. Workers
This article provides an in-depth comparison of Playwright workers, sharding, and orchestration strategies to optimize test runtimes in CI pipelines, detailing use cases, challenges, and best practices for scaling Playwright test suites efficiently.
How To Speed Up Playwright Tests: 7 Tips From Experts
This detailed guide presents seven expert strategies to optimize and speed up Playwright test suites, including effective parallelism, avoiding unnecessary reloads, persistent authentication, and resource blocking.