Is there a way for GitHub Action to Cache the Playwright Browser Binaries?

💡I've recently updated this as of 11/16/2022! If you've ever run into a situation where you find that you are running your Playwright tests multiple times a day as a GitHub Action, you can save time and money by caching  the downloaded binaries. To

How do I make a GitHub Action trigger Playwright Tests to run in a different repo?

💡These same steps can be used to programatically kick off Github Actions job in any repo regardless of the Test Automation Framework. If you ever find yourself with your Playwright Test Automation code in a separate repository than the service or application under test, have no fear! This post will

Is it possible to use Playwright to do Accessibility Testing?

Yes it's possible! Deque labs provides a tool called axe to assist with this. For use in playwright they specifically provide the axe-core/playwright package, and getting started is easier than ever. The below code snippet walks through how to use AxeBuilder function from the axe-core/

Is there a way to capture a value out of a test.step() in Playwright?

When using the Playwright Test Runner, you have access to test steps, which can be used when reporting steps of certain tests. Here you can define a title to describe the step, and the body which is a function that runs whatever code you want to run during this step.

How do I find a locator that keeps disappearing in Chrome for a Playwright UI Test?

I know I've run into this issue many times before. It feels like I am in a race to select the element and get a glimpse of the console to actually get the element name. This simple tip may help you keep that drop down or popup visible

What's the Difference Between ">", ">>" and " " Separators in Locators When Using Playwright?

If you've ever wondered how to use > or >> in your Playwright Locators look no further. This question was recently asked in the Playwright Slack hi everyone, is there any explanation or article about how should/could I use ">", ">>"

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