TypeScript-based end-to-end test suites with cross-browser coverage and CI/CD integration – built by engineers who have shipped Playwright at production scale.
Playwright moved from Microsoft research project to industry standard faster than almost any testing tool in recent memory. By 2024 it had overtaken Cypress in adoption among professional QA teams, and the reasons are not hard to understand if you've spent time with both.
The key advantages that make Playwright the right choice for most new automation projects:
We build production-quality Playwright automation suites, not proof-of-concept test scripts. The difference matters over a 12-month engagement when the codebase changes, the team turns over, and tests have to stay maintainable.
TypeScript test suites with Page Object Model: Every significant page or component gets a Page Object class that encapsulates interactions. Tests import page objects, not raw selectors. When the UI changes, you update the page object, not every test that touches that element.
Fixture-based test setup: We use Playwright's fixture system to share state across tests cleanly – authentication, test data, browser contexts. No copy-pasted setup code, no global state leaking between tests.
CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions: Tests run on every pull request, report results in the PR, and fail the build when tests fail. We configure artifact upload for failed test screenshots and traces so debugging a CI failure doesn't require reproducing it locally.
Flakiness management: Flaky tests are a tax on developer productivity. We design tests to minimize flakiness from the start – proper wait strategies, isolated test state, retry configuration for legitimately flaky scenarios – and we actively fix flakiness when it appears.
If you have an existing Selenium or Cypress suite and are considering Playwright, the migration is almost always worth doing – but the approach matters.
We start with an assessment: how many tests exist, what percentage are actively maintained, what the coverage distribution looks like, and how much of the test code is reusable versus deeply coupled to the current framework. This tells us whether to do a parallel migration (building Playwright coverage alongside the existing suite) or a phased replacement.
We don't recommend big-bang rewrites. They take longer than expected, create a period where you have neither old coverage nor new coverage, and usually end up with Playwright tests that have the same structural problems as the old tests. Instead, we migrate by test area – starting with the most critical flows, validating coverage before moving on, and retiring Selenium/Cypress tests as Playwright coverage replaces them.
The migration timeline depends on suite size and complexity, but a typical engagement for a team with 200-500 existing tests takes three to six months to complete a phased migration without losing coverage continuity.
If you are starting a new project with no existing automation, Playwright is the clear choice. We can have a solid foundation – configuration, CI integration, first critical-path tests – running in your pipeline within the first two weeks of an engagement.
A Playwright suite that only runs locally is a test suite you will stop running. CI integration is not optional – it is what makes automation valuable. We set it up correctly from the start.
Pull request gates: Tests run against a preview deployment (or a local dev server started in the CI job) on every PR. Failed tests block merge. The developer sees the failure report in the PR UI with screenshot evidence.
Parallel execution: GitHub Actions matrix strategy runs test shards in parallel, keeping CI execution time under 10 minutes even for large suites.
Artifact capture: Failed tests automatically capture screenshots and Playwright trace files. These artifacts are attached to the CI run and accessible for 30 days, so debugging a failure from last Tuesday is straightforward.
Scheduled regression runs: Full regression suite runs on a schedule against your staging environment – not just on PRs. This catches issues introduced by infrastructure changes, data state drift, or dependency updates that don't trigger a code change.
We scope Playwright engagements based on your application complexity and existing coverage. Tell us what you're working with and we'll give you a realistic timeline and starting point.
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