Playwright is an awesome new browser automation library. With Playwright, you can automate web UI interactions for testing or for web scraping with a concise, uniform API in one of four languages: Python, C#, Java, and JavaScript. Playwright is also completely open source and backed by Microsoft. It’s a powerful alternative to Selenium WebDriver.

On December 1, 2021, I delivered a workshop on Playwright for TAU: The Homecoming. In my workshop, I taught how to build a test automation project in Python using Playwright with pytest, Python’s most popular test framework. We automated a test case together for performing a DuckDuckGo web search.

If you missed the workshop, no worries: You can still take the workshop as a self-guided tutorial! The workshop instructions and example code are located in this GitHub repository:

https://github.com/AutomationPanda/tau-playwright-workshop

To take the workshop as a self-guided tutorial, read the repository’s README, and then follow the instructions in the Markdown guides under the workshop folder. The workshop has five main parts:

1. Getting started
   1. What is Playwright?
   2. Our web search test
   3. Test project setup
2. First steps with Playwright
   1. Browsers, contexts, and pages
   2. Navigating to a web page
   3. Performing a search
3. Writing assertions
   1. Checking the search field
   2. Checking the result links
   3. Checking the title
4. Refactoring using page objects
   1. The search page
   2. The result page
   3. Page object fixtures
5. Nifty Playwright tricks
   1. Testing different browsers
   2. Capturing screenshots and videos
   3. Running tests in parallel

If you get stuck or have any questions, please open issues against the GitHub repository, and I’ll try to help. Happy coding!