Quiz: Writing your first tests

page.locator('button.signin')page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Sign in' })page.$('//button[contains(., "Sign in")]')

Checks once immediately and throws if the element is not visible right now.Polls until the element becomes visible or the assertion timeout is reached.Sleeps for 5 seconds and then checks visibility.

To make tests slower so they appear thorough.To isolate cookies, storage and permissions so tests don’t affect each other.Because Playwright cannot reuse browser contexts across tests.

To mark a test as skipped and add a description of why.To group related tests together under a shared name, enabling scoped hooks and better reporting.To run a single test in isolation from the rest of the suite.To add a description string to an assertion error message.

Copy them into each test — there is no way to share setup code.Put them in a test.beforeAll block so they run once for the whole file.Put them in a test.beforeEach block so they run automatically before every test.Write a helper function and call it manually at the start of each test.

It is the same as page — just an alias.It gives you the BrowserContext so you can open multiple pages, set cookies, or grant permissions for the whole context.It provides access to the browser process for launching additional browser types.It is only available in test.beforeAll blocks, not in individual tests.

Pass a CSS ancestor selector as the second argument to every locator method.Chain locators — call the next locator method on the parent locator instead of on page.Use page.frame() to switch context to the dialog.There is no way to scope a locator — all searches are always page-wide.

It is just a convention — the tests also work without await but produce warnings.Playwright actions return Promises; without await the action is queued but the test moves on immediately, so assertions run before the action completes.await enables the auto-retry mechanism — without it, locators cannot poll the DOM.TypeScript requires await for any method that includes the word ‘async’.

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