This title slide is titled "Why Our Company is Moving to Playwright." Its subtitle highlights the key benefits: "Faster, Reliable, Modern E2E Testing."

Why Our Company is Moving to Playwright

Faster, Reliable, Modern E2E Testing

Source: Corporate presentation on Playwright migration

This presentation agenda outlines switching to Playwright from legacy tools, starting with motivation and a comparison to Selenium and other frameworks. It then covers setup and structure, key features like codegen and parallel execution, advanced topics such as MCP server and AI tools, and concludes with benefits and migration steps.

Presentation Agenda

1. 1. Motivation

Drivers for switching to Playwright from legacy tools.

2. 2. Comparison

Playwright versus Selenium and other testing frameworks.

3. 3. Setup & Structure

Installation steps and recommended project organization.

4. 4. Key Features

Codegen, fixtures, locators, config, and parallel execution.

5. 5. Advanced Topics

MCP server, Healer, Planner, and Cursor AI tools.

6. 6. Benefits & Conclusion

Overall advantages and migration next steps. Source: Corporate presentation on 'Why Our Company is Moving to Playwright'

The slide motivates switching from Selenium due to its limitations like flaky tests, slow execution, and browser issues, while highlighting Playwright's advantages of cross-browser support, auto-wait, and faster performance. It emphasizes business impacts such as 50% reduced maintenance and quicker CI/CD pipelines.

Motivation for Switching

• Selenium limitations: Flaky tests, slow execution, browser issues
• Playwright advantages: Cross-browser, auto-wait, faster performance
• Business impact: 50% reduced maintenance, quicker CI/CD

Source: Corporate Presentation: Why Switch to Playwright

The slide compares Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, and Puppeteer on speed, auto-wait, and parallel testing features. Playwright excels with fast speed, auto-wait, and native parallelism, outperforming Selenium's slowness and plugin dependency, Cypress's medium speed and limitations, and Puppeteer's lacks in auto-wait and parallelism.

Playwright vs. Selenium & Others

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The slide outlines a three-step Playwright installation workflow: initialize the project with npm init playwright@latest to create boilerplate files and example tests, then install browsers via npx playwright install to download Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit binaries. Step 3 sets up the standard folder structure by creating tests/, fixtures/, and pages/ directories alongside config/playwright.config.ts (diagram shown).

Installation & Folder Structure

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The "Codegen Demo" slide highlights a tool that automatically generates robust locators from user interactions and instantly records actions into reusable test code. It enables real-time preview and editing of locators while supporting Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers.

Codegen Demo

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• Generates robust locators from user interactions automatically.
• Records actions into reusable test code instantly.
• Preview and edit locators in real-time.
• Supports Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers.

Source: Wikipedia

Fixtures provide reusable setup and teardown logic, sharing common setups across tests while efficiently managing browser contexts and pages. Locators offer robust, auto-waiting selectors like page.locator('text=Submit') or role-based ones, which are chainable, reliable, and resilient to changes.

Fixtures & Locators

The slide covers configuring browsers, retries, and reporters in playwright.config.ts. It also explains running tests in parallel with npx playwright test --workers=4 and includes an MCP Server diagram for multi-cloud scaling.

Configuration & Parallel Execution

• Configure browsers, retries, reporters in playwright.config.ts
• Run tests in parallel: npx playwright test --workers=4
• MCP Server: Multi-cloud parallel scaling diagram

Source: Corporate Presentation on Playwright

The "Planner Demo" slide highlights how Healer uses AI to automatically fix failing tests and Planner optimizes test suites for efficiency. It includes a placeholder for a Planner demo video and notes Cursor AI's acceleration of test writing productivity.

Planner Demo

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• Healer automatically fixes failing tests with AI
• Planner optimizes test suites for efficiency
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• Cursor AI accelerates test writing productivity

Source: Image from Wikipedia article "Test automation"

The slide urges switching to Playwright for superior reliability and speed, with key benefits from Healer, Planner, and Cursor AI boosting productivity. Next steps include joining the current Q&A session and signing up for the announced training schedule.

Key Benefits & Next Steps

Switch to Playwright for superior reliability & speed.

Key Benefits:

• Healer, Planner, & Cursor AI supercharge productivity

Next Steps:

• Q&A Session Now
• Training Schedule Announced

Embrace Playwright. Transform Testing Today!

Join Q&A & Sign Up for Training.

Source: Why Our Company is Moving to Playwright