Articles by Tag #playwright
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Letting Playwright MCP Explore your site and Write your Tests
What if your tests could write themselves — just by using your app like a real user? In this post,...
The "Spinner of Death": Why Localhost Latency is Lying to You
The "Localhost" Bias We've all been there. On your machine, the API responds in 5ms. The UI...
Please, Stop Redirecting to Login on 401 Errors 🛑
You spend 15 minutes filling out a long configuration form. You get a Slack notification, switch...
Organizing Playwright Tests Effectively
Organizing Playwright Tests Effectively When working with end-to-end (E2E) testing in...
Stop Refreshing Weather Sites: Automate Alerts with Python and Playwright
Learn how to scrape live weather data, store it in SQLite, and receive automatic...
Building a Comprehensive E2E Test Suite with Playwright: Lessons from 100+ Test Cases
The Journey While developing the platform for LiveSpaces, I identified a critical gap in...
Implementing Nova Act MCP Server on ECS Fargate
Browser Automation as a Service This technical blog post outlines the implementation of a...
Does it really work for anybody, AI agentic testing, or automation
I have extensive experience in testing, automation, and setup of all these systems, and have...
How We Catch UI Bugs Early with Visual Regression Testing
Visual regression testing is a powerful technique to ensure our web application looks as expected,...
Retro’ing and Debugging 2024: A Journey of Growth and Reflection
As we step into a new year, it’s common to look back on the one that has just passed. The practice of...
Catch Missing `await` Calls in Playwright Tests with ESLint
Have you ever run a Playwright test that just... didn’t behave as expected? Maybe it failed randomly....
Why AI Can't Write Good Playwright Tests (And How To Fix It)
This article is for anyone writing Playwright tests with AI assistance TL;DR: AI agents using...
PR-06 at Hacktoberfest: Applying E2E Testing Lessons to Chart.js + Alpha Vantage
Turned feedback from my HERE Maps tests into a first-try, high-quality Playwright E2E suite for the Chart.js page in Hackathon Starter.
PR-05 at Hacktoberfest: Optimizing HERE Maps E2E Tests and Handling PR Feedback
Refined Playwright E2E tests for the HERE Maps page in Hackathon Starter after addressing seven rounds of maintainer feedback.
How We Automate Accessibility Testing with Playwright and Axe
At Subito, accessibility (a11y) is an important requirement for ensuring all users, regardless of...
Page Objects vs. Functional Helpers
Page Objects vs. Functional Helpers A while ago, I published Functional Programming Test...
HTML5 Canvas Testing with CanvasGrid and Playwright 🎭
Why Canvas Testing Is Hard HTML5 canvas elements are everywhere games, maps, drawing apps,...
Install Playwright MCP Server in VS Code
Installing MCP(Model Context Protocol) servers in Visual Studio Code just got a major upgrade! With...
Got frustrated with the docs, so I made a Playwright Cheatsheet
Every time I need to look up the Playwright docs, I open about 10+ tabs just to piece together what I...
Introduction to Playwright.
Introduction The web today isn't what it used to be. For years, I relied on request and BeautifulSoup...
AI-Powered Test Automation: How Playwright Agents Plan, Write, and Fix Tests for Us
There’s a point in every QA engineer’s journey when maintaining automated tests becomes harder than...
Playwright MCP Servers Explained: Automation and Testing
Did you know Playwright has two MCP servers. Yes kinda confusing, let me explain it. The Playwright...
Integrating Playwright with Next.js — The Complete Guide
What is Playwright? Playwright is a modern automation and testing framework built by...
AutoQA-Agent: Write Acceptance Tests in Markdown, Run Them with AI + Playwright
AutoQA-Agent is a Docs-as-Tests CLI: you write acceptance tests in plain Markdown, and it runs them...
Automation with Playwright: Building a Scalable Testing Architecture
In today's digital landscape, web applications must deliver flawless experiences across an expanding...
nextcov - Collecting Test Coverage for Next.js Server Components
📝 UPDATE (January 2025): As of nextcov@1.1.0 with ast-v8-to-istanbul@0.3.10: JSX branch coverage...
V8 Coverage Limitations and How to Work Around Them
🎉 UPDATE: This limitation has been FIXED! As of ast-v8-to-istanbul@0.3.10, V8 coverage now properly...
Why Verdex Uses CDP Directly
This is probably the most common question I get from engineers about Verdex: "Why use CDP instead of...
E2E Coverage in Next.js: Dev Mode vs Production Mode
nextcov supports collecting coverage from both next dev and next build && next start. This...
V8 Coverage vs Istanbul: Performance and Accuracy
When it comes to JavaScript code coverage, Istanbul has been the industry standard for over a decade....