Playwright Reviews & Insights

We use Playwright as one of our core validation processes on the QA team. We use it to automate various user flows in our application and perform regression testing. It is also integrated with our CI/CD pipelines, to be run between deployments to different environments and ensure that existing functionality is not compromised by new features.

Playwright is very well suited for any kind of frontend QA regression testing. It's perfect for ensuring that important features that are not often updated remain fully functional across updates or releases. It is not well suited for testing a feature that requires more developer updates before it is ready for end users. Playwright tests are not always simple to maintain if frequent updates are required to keep them relevant.

Playwright can be used for API or database assertions as well, but it's not necessarily best suited for those scenarios. It does perform well enough to consider that use case for simplicity if Playwright is already relevant for any frontend QA regression tests that are needed.

We have used it in various use cases for validating our API and UI. Login UI test case. Various features in the API are being tested using Playwright. Also, AI chatbots are tested using Playwright.

Easy to code and help in sanity regression and functional test cases

We use Playwright to automate our LMS's critical path. It is a complex software with many possible edge cases, it takes 2 testers 3 full days to fully smoke the app (not regression). With Playwright we automated the critical path, we integrated it into our CI/CD, and now it's constantly running and detecting errors and bugs before they even reach to QA.

Playwright is works pretty well for automating the critical user paths of any web application, ensuring that core functionalities are constantly tested and catching issues before they reach QA, particularly through its seamless integration into our CI/CD (in our case, using GithHub); however, it is less appropriate for mobile testing since it doesn't support mobile applications. Testers still needs to learn another framework to do this.