Welcome back as we continue our series on API Test Automation with Playwright! Today I'll walk through the changes made in the pull request, which include: * Helper Functions * Create Assertion Helper * Update to Absolute paths instead of Relative paths * branding, message, report, and room endpoint coverage to 100%

This was a question that was recently asked via the Playwright Discord server in the #help-playwright channel. If you aren't there you should join now! For today's solution I'll be using the https://practicesoftwaretesting.com/ website for the system under test. The pull request

If you've ever needed create a goto method that is dynamic in that it can take parameters and use them in the URL you want to visit, this solution should be helpful. I don't have a demo site to write live code against for this example,

This was a question that was recently asked via the Playwright Discord server in the #help-playwright channel. If you aren't there you should join now! Hi there, I wish to be able to change the system/browser's theme preference in the middle of my test, because

This week I was inspired to write about how to handle different login states in a Playwright project, from a conversation with a Joel a fellow tester and this question that was asked in the Discord Channel. I followed the doc https://playwright.dev/docs/auth for storing 'logged

I believe the hardest thing about Test Automation is creating and managing test data and system state. Today's guide we are going to walk through how I typically tackle the test data problem in my test automation projects. Keep in mind there are multiple ways to solve this

This week I wanted to try something different, rather than queue up my next post, I wanted to highlight a Luc Gagan's contributions to the Playwright Community. Luc has only been at it for a few months, and has created some great content, tutorials, tooling, and more on

I was recently asked how I handle an apiURL along with the baseURL in my Playwright Tests. One of the big benefits you get out of the box with Playwright is the ability to make API calls to create data or intercept network requests in order to have data to

Often when I'm interacting with a web application that creates new things, I find myself wanting the id or unique identifier of something that was just created for an assertion or to use in another action. Typically these are found in the network responses that happen form an

This week I will be brief in the US we have Memorial Day as a holiday and I've been doing a lot of learning apart from Playwright. This week I created my first NodeJS server with 3 endpoints and a hosted MongoDB backend. I updated the Playwright template

Between all the assertions you can make on a page while on a page in playwright, every once in a while I find I want to validate that text is already pre-populated in an input field to validate my system is behaving properly. In this case the assertions aren'

Now that I have some decent coverage around the auth and bookings endpoints, I have a new challenge. How do I keep up with what areas need coverage added, and how do I know if a a new auth endpoint gets added, without manually checking the docs every day. Today&

One of the first areas your likely to run into issues while writing automation for apis is around headers and authentication. I hope to share a few ways I've handled authentication and header management from my experiences, though there are many solutions to this problem. If you missed

I was recently asking myself this very same questions. With all the great locator tooling out there, sometimes there is just an old piece of legacy code that isn't going to get modified to add a data test id or other unique locator. In those situations we can

I recently had a scenario where I wanted to make a check on a UI element but the data within the UI element was a count that other tests in my suite would affect. There were really 2 approaches I saw forward. One was intercept the network traffic and scrape

A big part of writing automated checks is testing and debugging the code you write, ideally ensuring there aren't any bugs in test code. For part 3 I will be covering how I run my tests, debug my tests, and how I get feedback before the code is

💡I've published a new article which can be used if you are on Playwright version 1.46 or later - https://playwrightsolutions.com/update-v1-46-is-it-possible-to-run-only-playwright-tests-that-changed-in-github-actions-on-a-pull-request/ Have you ever been reviewing a peer's pull request in GitHub, and asked yourself does this Playwright check even pass? Well, I

Welcome Back! If you missed the Introduction and Part 1 make sure you understand the context of what we are doing and why. In this article I will focus on adding depth to our automated api checks. This will allow us to cover both positive and negative scenarios for each

Out of all the wonderful features that the Playwright Test Runner has around retrying failures, one thing I found myself needing was an easy way to re-run all the tests from a recent run. This is different than test retry and assert retry in that those are completing retries within

It's time to jump right in to building our your API tests with Playwright. First thing we will need is a website to test against. I have an awesome list of sites I keep up to date. GitHub - BMayhew/awesome-sites-to-test-on: A curated list of sites to practice

I have had a few folks ask if it's possible to do API testing with Playwright, the short answer YES! With this next series of posts I will walk through all the ins and outs of utilizing Playwright for all your API Testing needs. This will be the

Often when testing on the UI layer, you may want to validate a button or an element is in a certain state based on the users actions. A common scenario that I have faced is signing in, filling out address information, or entering credit card details. You don't

I've partnered with the Ministry of Testing to lead a live 99 minute hands on workshop. I'm really excited to help folks get started on their journey utilizing Playwright for automation. This workshop is available for free to all Ministry of Testing Pro members. To sign

In this article I'll cover 5 different ways to locate a parent element! One common challenge with UI automation is trying to access data from or control an element on a webpage that doesn't have a unique identifier. For example, given the below Challenging DOM page,