Mastery Curriculum Roadmap

Playwright Complete Automation Path

A comprehensive two-phase roadmap bridging fundamental web element mechanics and enterprise framework development on a real-world project.

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Phase 1: Core Fundamentals (Basics)

Essential building blocks for web element interactions, assertions, and execution contexts

20 Essential Modules
01. Setup Browsers Chromium, Firefox, WebKit
02. Structure Pages Page contexts & tabs
03. Context Frames iFrame piercing
04. Runner Fixtures Built-in test fixtures
05. Lifecycle Setup & TearDown beforeEach & afterEach
06. Selectors Locators getByRole, getByTestId
07. Relative Relative Locators filter({ hasText }), chaining
08. Interactions Actions click, fill, check, select
09. Validations Assertions expect().toBeVisible()
10. Non-Blocking Soft Assertions expect.soft(), not.to*
11. Resilience Auto-Waiting Actionability checks
12. Control Timeouts Global & locator timeouts
13. Traversal Navigations goto, reload, goBack
14. Windows Multi-Tab Contexts waitForEvent('page')
15. Modals Dialogs Alerts, confirm, prompt
16. Metadata Annotations skip, fixme, slow, fail
17. Authentication Storage State storageState({ path })
18. Diagnostics Trace & Video npx playwright show-trace
19. Options Configurations playwright.config.ts
20. Gestures Drag & Drop dragTo(), mouse actions
Architectural Milestone

Page Object Model (POM)

Transitioning from synthetic exercises to automating a Real-World Project using clean, object-oriented page classes.

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Phase 2: Advanced Framework Development

Industrial-grade framework architecture built on a real-world project

19 Advanced Topics
01. Architecture Custom Fixtures test.extend(), domain contexts
02. Data Driven Test Data Mgmt JSON, CSV & Faker data
03. Environment Config Files dotenv, multi-env setups
04. Helpers Utility Classes Reusable helper methods
05. Audit Logging Winston / Custom logs
06. Evidence Screenshots On-failure & full page
07. Analytics HTML Reports Playwright & Allure reports
08. Backend API Testing request context, REST APIs
09. Network Network Interception route(), mock REST data
10. Security Auth Handling Global setup & storage state
11. Performance Parallel Execution Workers & sharding
12. Suite Control Tags & Filtering @smoke, @regression
13. Stability Retries Flaky test handling
14. Matrix Cross-Browser Chromium, Firefox, WebKit
15. Devices Mobile Emulation Viewports, touch, devices
16. Versioning Git & GitHub Source control & PRs
17. Automation GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows & triggers
18. Orchestration Jenkins Pipeline integration & jobs
19. Containers Docker Basics Containerized test runs