🧪 QA & Testing · Web App Testing
Author Playwright smoke suites for web apps
Journey-selection, trace-on-retry infrastructure, and network stubs producing trustworthy five-minute gates.
intermediate~40 minQA EngineersSDETsTest Automation Engineers
Steps
- 1Pick 5-7 journeys by traffic × revenue impact; ignore the rest at gate level
- 2Configure trace + video on retry only; artifacts for failures, speed for passes
- 3Stub third-party calls; your gate shouldn't fail because an analytics vendor sneezed
- 4Seed state via API routes, never UI-click signup chains
- 5Assert user-visible outcomes (row rendered, email text) over DOM internals
- 6Run against preview deployments per PR; prod-smoke separately post-deploy
Common Pitfalls
- ▲Flaky third-party scripts owning your merge gate
- ▲Selectors coupled to styling classes renamed weekly
Commands
Install with skills CLI
$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill web-app-testing-playwright-smoke-authoringInstall globally
$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill web-app-testing-playwright-smoke-authoring -gTags
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