Playwright Browser Automation
Automate Web Testing with Confidence
Create robust, maintainable browser automation scripts with Playwright for testing, scraping, and workflow automation across all major browsers.
What You Can Automate
UI Testing
- End-to-end test scenarios
- Component interaction testing
- Visual regression testing
- Form validation testing
- Navigation flow testing
Cross-Browser Testing
- Chromium, Firefox, WebKit support
- Mobile browser emulation
- Responsive design testing
- Browser-specific bug detection
Advanced Interactions
- File uploads and downloads
- Drag and drop operations
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Mouse movements and hovers
- Multi-tab/window scenarios
Testing Best Practices
- Reliable element selectors
- Wait strategies and timeouts
- Error handling and retries
- Test data management
- Screenshot and video capture
Features & Capabilities
Playwright Expertise
- Page object model patterns
- Test fixtures and hooks
- Parallel test execution
- API testing integration
- Network request mocking
CI/CD Integration
- GitHub Actions setup
- Docker containerization
- Headless mode configuration
- Reporting and artifacts
- Failure screenshot capture
Debugging Support
- Inspector and trace viewer
- Console log capture
- Network activity monitoring
- Slow-motion execution
- Step-through debugging
Perfect For
- QA Engineers automating test suites
- Developers writing integration tests
- DevOps Teams CI/CD pipeline testing
- Web Scrapers building robust crawlers
- Automation Engineers workflow automation
Use Cases
- Regression testing for web applications
- User journey validation
- Form submission automation
- Data extraction and scraping
- Screenshot and PDF generation
- Performance monitoring
- Accessibility testing
Code Quality
- TypeScript/JavaScript best practices
- Async/await patterns
- Modular test structure
- Reusable utility functions
- Comprehensive comments
Requirements
- Basic JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge
- Understanding of HTML/CSS selectors
- Familiarity with async programming
Based on Playwright Browser Automation from awesome-claude-skills repository