If your Playwright suite is “green locally, red on CI,” here’s the uncomfortable truth: Your tests aren’t flaky. Your popup strategy is. Cookie banners, newsletter modals, chat widgets, “rate your experience” overlays, payment windows, login providers—popups are not edge cases anymore. They’re part of the product. And when we treat them like surprises, we …
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Learn how to build reliable Playwright automation tests in 2026 using the Zero-Flake strategy. This guide covers stable setup, locator best practices, CI reliability, first test implementation using the Leaftaps OpenTaps demo site, and scalable Playwright framework design. Introduction: Why Reliable UI Automation Matters in 2026 Choosing a UI automation tool is no longer …
Playwright Testing in 2026 — The Zero-Flake Setup Guide Read More »
Modern web apps don’t “break tests” because selectors are bad. They break tests because the UI keeps changing context: iFrames (payments, chat widgets, embedded dashboards) Popups / new tabs (SSO providers, help centers, previews) Uploads & downloads (reports, resumes, exports) In older tools, these were classic flake zones: you’d switch context manually, race the …
Your Playwright Tests Fail for This Reason (Frames, Popups, Downloads) Read More »
If you run Playwright in CI at scale, you’ve seen this movie. ✅ Test fails ✅ You open the screenshot ✅ Instead of the dashboard… you’re staring at the login page And suddenly everyone wonders: “Did we break prod?” Most of the time, you didn’t. What you hit is an auth/session artifact—a flaky failure …
Playwright + AI: AI-Driven Session Preservation & Failure Triage (Built for Real CI) Read More »
Even with Playwright’s excellent storageState support and carefully designed login flows, UI tests still fail. And most of the time, it’s not because the feature is broken. It’s because the session is. You’ve probably seen it: A token expires 5 seconds before the test finishes auth.json works for one worker but not another The …
Self-Healing Playwright Tests: Using GenAI to Detect and Fix Login & Session Failures Read More »
If Selenium’s world is “log in, grab cookies, reuse them,” Playwright takes that idea and bakes it into the framework with a feature called storage state. Storage state = a snapshot of: Cookies Local storage Session storage That represent a logged-in browser. You can: Log in once. Save the storage state to a file. …
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One of the best things about Playwright is that it auto-waits for you: Waits for elements to be attached. Waits for them to be visible and stable. Waits for navigation to complete. This is why Playwright tests often feel less flaky than older tools. But there’s a catch: If you don’t understand how auto-wait …
Playwright: Fixing Timing Issues with Smart Waits Read More »
Hi, I’m Hari, VP at Qeagle. 16 years. That’s how long I’ve been building automation solutions. I’ve seen every trend, every hype cycle, and every ‘next big thing’. I thought I had seen it all. But this? This is entirely different. As someone who has spent years building automation frameworks, fine-tuning locators, and teaching …
10x Your Automation Speed: How I Used Playwright & Copilot in VS Code Read More »
Introduction If you’re preparing for a CTS (Cognizant) automation testing interview in 2026, Playwright is almost guaranteed to appear in the discussion. Many companies now expect you to know not just Selenium, but also modern tools like Playwright, plus strong fundamentals in QA, Agile, and coding. This guide brings together real-world, CTS-style Playwright interview questions …
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If you’ve been using Selenium for years and now feel the pressure to modernize your automation skills, Playwright MCP is exactly the upgrade you’ve been waiting for. 2026 is the year testers move from “writing scripts” to orchestrating AI-powered automation workflows. And the technology making that possible is MCP — Model Context Protocol — …
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