Automation

Strategy, Playwright, and E2E automation patterns.

Strategy

• When to automate (and when not to) — the criteria before the tooling.
• AI in test automation — Playwright agents and coding assistants: what works today, with numbers.

Playwright

• First steps — project structure, the recorder, and debugging (trace viewer, UI mode).
• Page Object Model — one class per page, constructor injection, and SOLID in practice.
• Configuring and organizing the suite — timeouts, projects, environment variables, and tags.
• TypeScript for QA — why TS, conventions, and ESLint with Playwright rules.

Real-world cases

• Migrating from TestCafe to Playwright — the full migration: numbers, method, and lessons learned.
• The E2E tools landscape — Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cypress and Playwright: the architecture behind each one and how to choose.
• Python for QA — pytest, requests and what else the QA's utility language is good for.
• BDD with Cucumber — Gherkin and step definitions, and when BDD genuinely pays off.
• Cypress: first steps — the runner, the essential commands and the chaining-plus-retry mental model.
• Cypress: patterns that work — cy.session, cy.intercept, state via API and organization that scales.