Why a Test Automation Framework? (Playwright + TypeScript, Ch.1) (opens in new tab)

Welcome to the first chapter of a hands-on course where we build a production-grade Playwright + TypeScript automation framework — covering both API and UI testing — against a real, dockerized web app you run on your own machine. This isn't a "here are 5 Playwright tips" post. By the end of the series you'll have a framework with the same shape a real QA team ships: layered, parallel-safe, authenticating once and reusing the session, seeding data through the API and verifying it in the UI, an...