Playwright Python and Pytest for Web Automation Testing

Playwright is a modern, fast and reliable browser automation tool from Microsoft that enables testing and automation across all modern browsers including chromium, firefox and webkit. Pytest is a popular Python testing framework that offers a simple and flexible way to write and run tests. In this course, you will learn how to blend Playwright capabilities into the Pytest framework with the use of pytest-playwright plugin.

This course is designed for beginners in mind! It’s alright if you don’t anything about web automation! We will cover all the basics of Playwright and Web Automation Essentials, step by step –

• Different method to locate web elements like role, text, css selectors, xpath, etc.
• Perform actions on web elements like clicking, filling forms,
• Events like Auto-waiting, page navigation, downloads, etc.
• Authentication with your google account

As a bonus, we will develop a script to automatically check for new emails in our inbox and report them back i.e. automated mail checking!

After learning web automation, we will start with testing. Again, it’s alright if you’re new to automation testing or testing at all! You’ll go from writing a basic test to deploying automated tests –

• Basics of testing with pytest
• Playwright pytest plugin
• Playwright Tools like trace viewer, codegen, etc.
• Web-first assertions using expect( )
• Solve modern testing problems with UI Testing Playground
• Playwright fixtures, custom setup/teardown using test hooks, , etc.
• Implement Page Object Model (POM)
• Handle network events
• REST API Testing, authentication and API request context
• Optimizations techniques like Parallelism
• Deploy automated tests to CI
• Parameterize tests with predefined test data
• Behaviour Driven Development with python behave
• and more…

By the end of the course, you will be able to write automated tests and perform fast, reliable, and capable testing and automation using Playwright and Pytest.