Editor's top Playwright books
1Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright: Create fast, reliable, and scalable tests for modern web apps with Microsoft's automation framework
Faraz K. Kelhini & Butch Mayhew · Packt · 412 pages · ~10 hrs to read
The most current Playwright book on the market, covering accessibility testing, visual regression, and AI-assisted test generation alongside the core API. Written by working automation engineers, which shows in the CI and flakiness-debugging chapters.
Playwright Books for Beginners
1Web Automation Testing Using Playwright: End-to-end, API, accessibility, and visual testing using Playwright
Kailash Pathak · BPB Publications · 474 pages · ~12 hrs to read
A compressed beginner-to-intermediate pass over the same four testing modes — e2e, API, accessibility, visual — than the Packt title. A cheaper first book if you want a printed reference rather than pure docs.
Intermediate & Advanced Playwright Books
2Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright: Create fast, reliable, and scalable tests for modern web apps with Microsoft's automation framework
Faraz K. Kelhini & Butch Mayhew · Packt · 412 pages · ~10 hrs to read
The most current Playwright book on the market, covering accessibility testing, visual regression, and AI-assisted test generation alongside the core API. Written by working automation engineers, which shows in the CI and flakiness-debugging chapters.
Practical Playwright Test: Next-Generation Web Testing and Automation
Jean-François Greffier · Apress · 288 pages · ~7 hrs to read
Focuses specifically on the Playwright Test runner rather than the whole ecosystem — fixtures, parallelization, and writing custom reporters. A good second book once you've outgrown the official getting-started guide.
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