Episode 235: Playwright with Debbie O’Brien
Debbie O’Brien talks with us about Playwright, writing tests with different languages, the Playwright VS Code extension, visual comparison testing, automating tests with Playwright, and migration tools to move to Playwright.
const podcast = { episode: 235, title: 'Playwright', topics: [ 'playwright', 'testing', 'automation' ], guest: 'Debbie O’Brien' hosts: [ 'John Papa', 'Dan Wahlin' ]};Recording date: May 11, 2023
John Papa @John_Papa
Ward Bell @WardBell
Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Debbie O’Brien @debs_obrien
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Resources:
- Playwright
- Playwright documentation
- End to End testing tools
- First look at Playwright
- VS Code extension for Playwright
- Visual comparison with Playwright
- Recording videos with Playwright
- GitHub Copilot
- Tracing in Playwright
- Debbie sharing time Traveling debugging with Playwright on YouTube
- UI Mode in Playwright
- The Gold Mine Effect by Rasmus Ankersen
- Get Running Coaching
Timejumps
- 00:26 Welcome
- 01:38 Guest introduction
- 03:28 What is Playwright?
- 06:43 Sponsor: Nrwl
- 07:19 Do you have to write tests differently to use different languages?
- 09:31 Playwrite VS Code extension
- 12:40 What are we doing when we're testing?
- 16:15 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 17:16 Could you do visual comparison testing?
- 20:39 Is there migration tools for Playwright?
- 23:12 How would I automate testing with Playwright?
- 25:20 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.