Butch Mayhew

How can I get Slack notifications when a new version of Playwright is released?

One of the many reasons I'm in love with Playwright is the constant updates the tool receives. With these frequent releases there may be a few days or weeks where I may miss out on the latest features that are available. To remedy this problem I created a

How to conditionally use afterEach in your Playwright Tests

There are certain scenarios that you may run into where you want to use an afterEach in a test to clean up data, but not every scenario needs this data cleaned up. My specific example was a test where I was testing a POST endpoint. We have both positive and

How to block ads during the execution of Playwright tests

Recently a site that I used for building out test automation examples added google ads to their site, which actually caused all of the tests I had written to fail. The ad one that popped up from the bottom and overlaid on top of the inputs the automation was interacting

Is there a way to list all the Playwright tests without running them?

Yes, yes there is! The below command can be run and will give you a list of all the tests that would be run. Listing out the tests gives you access to the file name and location of the test, test name, total number of tests, and total number of

How can I run multiple groups of tags with Playwright Test Runner?

If you are using Playwright Test there is this sweet sweet option to tag the tests you are writing with a single or multiple tags. The challenge may come with you have multiple tags you would like to run together. Let's say you have @tag1, @tag2, and @tag3

In Playwright Test is there an easy way to loop the test multiple times to check for flakiness?

I've found it to be a good practice to run new automated tests or edits to existing tests a few times on a pull request to check for flakiness prior to merging the new code into the main branch of the test suite. To do this you can

What's an easy way to tell how many Playwright Tests I can comfortably run in parallel?

The good news, is by default Playwright takes a stab at running tests in parallel based on your computer specs. The even better news is you may be able to get faster feedback when running your Playwright Tests by increasing or decreasing the worker count. You can learn a whole

Is There a Way for Playwright Tests to Include Additional Information in HTML Report After a Run?

I've found as the automation suite grows, typically you need a way to easily surface information to the testers or developers who are reviewing the test run reports. Thankfully the playwright team has given us this functionality within the @playwright/test runner. There is an info() method that

Access a Table Row With Unique Text From a Cell in Playwright

There are a ton of different ways to interact with tables, this is the first of many examples of different ways you can extract/confirm data exists where it should in your Playwright Tests. For this example we will use the table found at https://letcode.in/table For this

Playwright API POST request to upload a file with Content-Type: multipart/form-data

When writing automation against my API, I ran into an issue attempting to make a post using playwright api to upload a file. The answer came in the form of a slack thread, I figured I would re-share here. The api call I was trying to make was a POST