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,
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 enjoy reading, specially now when temperatures are in the mid-80s. It's so nice to relax by the pool with a good book. When a book is well-written, it's easy to read, and I can spend hours turning those pages, letting my imagination create
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
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." - Benjamin Franklin. Have you ever looked at the code you wrote a few months ago and started thinking, "Wow, 'old me' thought it was pretty good, but this is actually
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