Practical Playwright Test

Next-Generation Web Testing and Automation
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 979-8-8688-2159-2
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 569 g

Gain cutting-edge skills in crafting reliable, efficient end-to-end tests with Playwright Test. This book is your comprehensive guide to Playwright Test that will help you to create and debug blazing fast tests, and integrate and customize Playwright Test to fit your testing needs. 

The book begins with an introduction to Playwright and teaches you the fundamentals of how to write tests efficiently. The book then gets into concepts like Locators and explains how to set up a CI using Playwright Test. After this, you will gain experience in two important aspects of testing – speed and customization. You will then be taken through a deep dive into Fixtures followed by an exploration of strategies like mocking and emulation through which you can achieve more control of the testing environment. The book also provides a detailed discussion on flakiness and how Playwright Test can help you with it. It then teaches you how to automate tests and ends with a discussion on how Playwright Test changes the landscape of testing, and how to integrate it in your daily practices and testing strategy.

By reading this book, you will become an expert in the specificities of Playwright Test and how to test critical user flows, reduce bugs in production, and ultimately ship reliable software with confidence.

What You Will Learn

• Create and debug reliable end-to-end tests efficiently with the perfect locators
• Set up a CI using Playwright Test to get results, test reports and useful traces
• Understand how to use and write Fixtures
• Customize Playwright to fit your needs

Who This Book Is For

Frontend developers, full-stack developers, QA Engineers, Software Testers, Test Automation Engineers, QA Leads and QA Managers

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greffier, Jean-François

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Microsoft Programmierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Webprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Softwaretests & Prüfsoftware
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Linux Betriebssysteme, Open Source Betriebssysteme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 - Getting Started.- Chapter 2 - Write Tests Efficiently.- Chapter 3 - Locators.- Chapter 4 - Continuous Integration.- Chapter 5 - Make it Fast.- Chapter 6 - Extending Playwright Test.- Chapter 7 - Fixtures Deep-dive.- Chapter 8 - Mocking and Emulation.- Chapter 9 - Gain Confidence Thanks to Reliable Tests.- Chapter 10 - Automation and More with Playwright.- Chapter 11 - Beyond End-to-end Testing.- Chapter 12 - Solving the Test Frameworks Puzzle.

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-François Greffier is an experienced frontend engineer. His main interests are software craft and testing. Recently awarded Microsoft MVP, he is a Playwright ambassador. He is not only an advocate, but also an open-source contributor to Playwright on documentation, bug fixes and features. He is also the maintainer of the Playwright Angular Schematic.