Replace Postman with Playwright's request context. Schema validation, auth token flows, GraphQL testing, and chaining API setup with UI assertions — all in TypeScript.
The Playwright Playbook — Part 4: API Testing — The Underrated Superpower
"The best UI test is one that doesn't need the UI at all."
In Part 1, we built the foundation. In Part 2, we intercepted the network. In Part 3, we ran multiple users simultaneously.
Now we go one layer deeper — below the browser entirely.
Playwright's API request context.
Test real-time collaboration, role-based permissions, and multi-tab flows in Playwright. Two users. One test. The scenarios most…
Here's a Playwright test that looks completely reasonable and silently lies to...
In Chapter 7 we turned data and the API context into fixtures. But our UI tests still open with...
A production-ready Playwright CI/CD pipeline — GitHub Actions, test sharding across machines, browser matrix, Docker for…
Stop using console.log to debug Playwright failures. Master Trace Viewer, Playwright Inspector, VS Code integration, and…
A fast suite is a parallel suite — and parallelism is where flakiness is born. The good news: we've...
