Browser automation used to mean flaky tests, arbitrary waits, and a test suite that broke every time someone changed a CSS class. Playwright was built to fix that. It auto-waits for elements, runs browsers in parallel, and gives you a single API for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.
But a better tool does not automatically produce better tests. The same mistakes that make Selenium suites unmaintainable will ruin a Playwright suite just as fast. Playwright gives you speed and reliability out of the box. Architecture and design are still your responsibility.
This course teaches you how to build a Playwright test suite in Java that is fast, stable, and worth maintaining.
Day 1 — From first test to solid foundations
You start by launching a browser, navigating to a page, and verifying what you see. Playwright's auto-wait and built-in assertions mean your first tests already avoid the timing problems that plague other tools.
Then you go deeper. You learn how to structure tests using the Page Object pattern, how to isolate browser contexts so tests run independently, and how to use Playwright's locator strategies to write selectors that survive UI changes. You will build a test suite that is readable and organised by what the application does, not by how the HTML is structured.
Day 2 — Speed, architecture, and the pipeline
Day two is about making your tests fast and keeping them that way. You will run tests in parallel, use headless execution, and trace failures with Playwright's built-in trace viewer — screenshots, network logs, and DOM snapshots for every step that went wrong.
You will integrate your tests into a build pipeline so they run on every commit. You will apply the four rules of simple design to your test code, because a test suite that nobody dares refactor is a test suite that will be abandoned. Good design matters as much in test code as in production code.
What you bring home
A modern, parallel, cross-browser test suite that runs in your pipeline and gives your team the confidence to ship on any day of the week.