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Playwright for Selenium Developers

Main Speaker

Itai Agmon

Learning Tracks

Code, Testing & Automation

Course ID

52037

Date

17-07-2025

Time

Daily seminar
9:00-16:30

Location

Daniel Hotel, 60 Ramat Yam st. Herzliya

Overview

This seminar is meticulously crafted to empower Selenium/Webdriver developers with the transformative capabilities of Playwright, an advanced end-to-end testing library revolutionizing automated testing for contemporary web applications.

Unlike its predecessors, Playwright boasts unparalleled advantages, offering seamless automation of browser interactions and enabling comprehensive cross-browser testing with unprecedented efficiency.

Emphasizing the utilization of TypeScript, this course equips Java/C#/Python developers with the adeptness to harness Playwright’s prowess, enabling the creation of resilient, scalable, and effortlessly maintainable automated tests.

Who Should Attend

Prerequisites

Proficiency in any programming language
Basic understanding of web development concepts (HTML, Chrome Developer Tools)
Familiarity with Selenium / WebDriver testing principles (XPath, CSS Selectors)

Course Contents

Introduction to Playwright

Overview of Playwright and its advantages
Playwright under the hood (CDP VS. WebDriver)
Auto-waiting mechanism

TypeScript for Java/C#/Python Developers

Introduction to Node, npm and package.json
Const, Let and Var
Classes and interfaces in TypeScript
Relations between classes
Promises and await

Playwright Basic Usage

Setting up a Playwright project with TypeScript
Recording basic Playwright script
The magic of trace files
Recording videos
Basic API (Playwright, Browser, Context, Page)
Interacting with elements with locators
Finding element with selectors
Asserting with expect library

Playwright Advanced Usage and Events

Working with multiple browsers and browser contexts (saving context state)
Waiting for different events (console, download, alerts, etc..)
Working with network events (logging, waiting, mocking)

Playwright Test Runner

Running tests from the command line
The power of the UiMode
Reporters (HTML, List, Custom)
Fixtures in playwright.
Parallel execution and sharding
Visual Comparison

Writing Maintainable Tests with Page Objects

Introduction to Page Object Model (POM)
Implementation of page classes in TypeScript