Playwright - with Debbie O'Brien

About this episode

Dan Clarke interviews Debbie O'Brien about Playwright, Microsoft's open-source testing framework, and its features including AI capabilities.

In this episode, I was joined by Debbie O’Brien to chat about Playwright - Microsoft’s open-source end-to-end testing framework. I’m a huge fan of Playwright, so I was really excited to have this chat with Debbie. We covered a lot of ground, including features such as Codegen, Trace Viewer, and UI Mode. We also spoke a lot about AI - including the exciting Playwright MCP Server which enables AI agents to automate browser interactions! Debbie has been an integral part of Playwright as a Princi...

People in this episode

Host: Dan Clarke

Guest: Debbie O'Brien

Topics covered

• Playwright
• end-to-end testing
• AI
• Codegen
• Trace Viewer
• UI Mode

Keywords

• Playwright
• end-to-end testing
• Microsoft
• AI
• Codegen
• Trace Viewer
• UI Mode

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Playwright, Playwright MCP Server

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