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
This is a continuation of a series on How to send a slack notification after Playwright test finish. Part 1 discussed how to use an npm package to do this while Part 2 covered how to send slack messages from a github action. This is Part 3 where I cover
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,
While working across different web applications you are bound to run into situations where a link or an action on a web page causes a redirect. This can happen via javascript or via http requests. A decent guide on ways redirects can be implemented can be found here. Example Website
A few weeks ago I posted about slack-playwright-report npm package, which allows you to send basic playwright results to a slack channel via a custom reporter within the Playwright test run. Today I'll provide examples of how to send not just the result (pass/fails) but a way
When I went to go answer this question at the beginning of my Playwright journey, I wasn't able to find a solution that worked for me. Thankfully the Playwright team has built the reporters functionality where it's easy to create your own custom reports. This lead
When running your playwright tests depending on how large your suite is, you will get to a point where you may only want to run a subset of tests. You can achieve this goal through a few different ways (setting up different projects, different repos, etc..), but today I'
I recently ran into an issue where I wanted to interact with a section of the system I was testing that had 'Copy to Clipboard' functionality. This was specifically a link that I could generate and then share out. This part of our system was a part of