01
What are fixtures in Playwright?
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Reusable setup/teardown units injected into tests (page, context, request). You can extend test with custom fixtures such as loggedInPage.
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02
Tests are flaky in CI. How do you debug them?
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Turn on trace: 'on-first-retry', open the trace viewer, check network and timing, replace hard waits with web-first assertions, isolate test data and check for sharding conflicts.
03
How do you reuse login state across tests?
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Log in once in global setup, save storageState to a JSON file and set use.storageState in the config so every test starts logged in.
04
How do you run tests on three browsers in parallel?
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Define projects for chromium, firefox and webkit in playwright.config.ts, set workers, then run: npx playwright test
05
Design a Playwright framework for a 500-test suite.
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TypeScript + POM + custom fixtures, environment configs, API helpers for test data, tags like @smoke, sharding across CI machines, retries with traces, HTML/Allure reports, lint and review rules.
06
How do you write a Page Object in Playwright?
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A class receives page in its constructor, stores locators as properties and exposes actions like login(user, pass). Tests call page objects, not raw locators.
07
How do you run Playwright in GitHub Actions?
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Workflow: checkout → setup-node → npm ci → npx playwright install --with-deps → npx playwright test → upload playwright-report as an artifact.
08
How do you run only smoke tests?
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Tag tests (in the title or with { tag: '@smoke' }) and run: npx playwright test --grep @smoke (use --grep-invert to exclude).