Episode 235: Playwright with Debbie O’Brien

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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.