How To Control a Keyboard in Playwright
Form filling, text input, and hotkey pressing are crucial parts of user interface (UI) test automation. In this guide, we will study how to use keyboard events using Playwright. Keyboard.press()...
locator.fill and locator.pressSequentially in Playwright
In Playwright 1.38, a new locator.pressSequentially() method was introduced. On the other hand, it still has the locator.fill() method. Both methods serve one simple goal - to complete text input...
How the Screenshots Naming Works in Playwright
Using screenshots is a crucial part of visual testing in Playwright. When you have a lot of tests and test files in your testing project, keeping your gold screenshots in...
How To Add Tags Dynamically In Playwright Tests
In this brief story, I want to share with you my approach to dynamically tagging Playwright tests. By default, Playwright recommends that you use the — grep and — grep-invert...
How To Interact With Sliders Using Playwright
Sometimes, you need to deal with sliders in your tests. Playwright does not have any built-in tools to interact with sliders. However, it is not a problem at all. In...
How To Test REST API In Playwright
Although Playwright is the web testing tool you use for frontend testing, sometimes your tests need to interact with some APIs, for example, to get test data from the server....
Four Horsemen of the Flaky Tests
Flaky automation tests can be a bane for QA engineers, introducing uncertainty and undermining the reliability of test suites. Drawing from my experience as an SDET and QA Automation mentor,...
How To Get The Element OuterHTML In Playwright
You may need to get the outerHTML of the element in your tests. This seems simple, but Playwright doesn’t have an outerHTML() function. Let’s start with an example. For this...