// Production-ready CI/CD configurations for Playwright — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, parallel sharding, reporting, code coverage, and global setup/teardown.
Battle-tested Playwright patterns for writing, debugging, and scaling reliable test suites. Use when you need guidance for E2E, API, component, visual, accessibility, or security testing, plus CI/CD, CLI automation, page objects, and migration from Cypress or Selenium. TypeScript and JavaScript.
Battle-tested Playwright patterns for writing and debugging reliable E2E, API, component, visual, accessibility, and security tests. Use when you need locator strategy, assertions, fixtures, network mocking, auth flows, trace debugging, or framework recipes for React, Next.js, Vue, and Angular. TypeScript and JavaScript.
Automates browser interactions for testing and validating your own web applications using playwright-cli. Use when you need terminal-first browser control for navigation, form filling, screenshots, tracing, bound browser sessions, debugging, or generating Playwright test code. Only use against applications you own or have explicit authorization to test.
Step-by-step migration guides for moving to Playwright from Cypress or Selenium/WebDriver — command mappings, architecture changes, and incremental adoption strategies.
Page Object Model patterns for Playwright — when to use POM, how to structure page objects, and when fixtures or helpers are a better fit.
| name | playwright-ci |
| description | Production-ready CI/CD configurations for Playwright — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, parallel sharding, reporting, code coverage, and global setup/teardown. |
Ship reliable tests in every pipeline — CI-specific patterns for speed, stability, and actionable reports.
9 guides covering CI/CD setup, parallel execution, containerized runs, reporting, and infrastructure patterns for all major CI providers.
retries: 2 in CI only — surface flakiness in pipelines, not locallytraces: 'on-first-retry' — capture rich debugging artifacts without slowing every run--shard=N/M splits tests evenly; scale horizontally, not vertically~/.cache/ms-playwright keyed on Playwright versionmcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v* has all OS deps pre-installedglobalSetup, reuse storageState across workers| Provider | Guide |
|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | ci-github-actions.md |
| GitLab CI | ci-gitlab.md |
| CircleCI / Azure DevOps / Jenkins | ci-other.md |
| Topic | Guide |
|---|---|
| Parallel execution & sharding | parallel-and-sharding.md |
| Docker & containers | docker-and-containers.md |
| Multi-project config | projects-and-dependencies.md |
| Topic | Guide |
|---|---|
| Reports & artifacts | reporting-and-artifacts.md |
| Code coverage | test-coverage.md |
| Global setup/teardown | global-setup-teardown.md |