Practical Playwright Test: Next-Generation Web Testing and Automation - Softcover

Greffier, Jean-François

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798868821592

Publisher: Apress, 2026

Synopsis

Gain cutting-edge skills in crafting reliable, efficient end-to-end tests with Playwright Test. This book is your comprehensive guide to Playwright Test that will help you to create and debug blazing fast tests, and integrate and customize Playwright Test to fit your testing needs. 

The book begins with an introduction to Playwright and teaches you the fundamentals of how to write tests efficiently. The book then gets into concepts like Locators and explains how to set up a CI using Playwright Test. After this, you will gain experience in two important aspects of testing – speed and customization. You will then be taken through a deep dive into Fixtures followed by an exploration of strategies like mocking and emulation through which you can achieve more control of the testing environment. The book also provides a detailed discussion on flakiness and how Playwright Test can help you with it. It then teaches you how to automate tests and ends with a discussion on how Playwright Test changes the landscape of testing, and how to integrate it in your daily practices and testing strategy.

By reading this book, you will become an expert in the specificities of Playwright Test and how to test critical user flows, reduce bugs in production, and ultimately ship reliable software with confidence.

What You Will Learn

• Create and debug reliable end-to-end tests efficiently with the perfect locators
• Set up a CI using Playwright Test to get results, test reports and useful traces
• Understand how to use and write Fixtures
• Customize Playwright to fit your needs

Who This Book Is For

Frontend developers, full-stack developers, QA Engineers, Software Testers, Test Automation Engineers, QA Leads and QA Managers

About this title

About the Author

Jean-François Greffier is an experienced frontend engineer. His main interests are software craft and testing. Recently awarded Microsoft MVP, he is a Playwright ambassador. He is not only an advocate, but also an open-source contributor to Playwright on documentation, bug fixes and features. He is also the maintainer of the Playwright Angular Schematic.

From the Back Cover

Gain cutting-edge skills in crafting reliable, efficient end-to-end tests with Playwright Test. This book is your comprehensive guide to Playwright Test that will help you to create and debug blazing fast tests, and integrate and customize Playwright Test to fit your testing needs. 

The book begins with an introduction to Playwright and teaches you the fundamentals of how to write tests efficiently. The book then gets into concepts like Locators and explain how to set up a CI using Playwright Test. After this, you will gain experience in two important aspects of testing – speed and customization. You will then be taken through a deep dive into Fixtures followed by an exploration of strategies like mocking and emulation through which you can achieve more control of the testing environment. The book also provides a detailed discussion on flakiness and how Playwright Test can help you with it. It then teaches you how to automate tests and ends with a discussion on how Playwright Test changes the landscape of testing, and how to integrate it in your daily practices and testing strategy.

By reading this book, you will become an expert in the specificities of Playwright Test and how to test critical user flows, reduce bugs in production, and ultimately ship reliable software with confidence.

What You Will Learn

• Create and debug reliable end-to-end tests efficiently with the perfect locators
• Set up a CI using Playwright Test to get results, test reports and useful traces
• Understand how to use and write Fixtures
• Customize Playwright to fit your needs

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798868821592
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300