• Automation testing fundamentals and mindset
• Playwright overview and use cases
• Core capabilities and practical advantages
• Why Playwright is widely adopted
• Playwright tooling ecosystem
• Choosing JavaScript or TypeScript

JavaScript Overview & Setup

• Understanding JavaScript fundamentals
• How HTML, CSS, and JS connect
• How the JavaScript engine executes code
• Node.js and VS Code installation
• Recommended VS Code extensions
• Writing starter JavaScript scripts

Core Language Basics

• Identifiers and reserved keywords
• Comments
• Data types
• Variables using let, const, and var
• Operators
• Function scope vs block scope
• Variable hoisting behavior

Decision Control

• if/else branching
• switch
• truthy and falsy checks

Looping Constructs

• for
• while
• do...while
• break, continue

Functions in Practice

• Function declarations and expressions
• Types of functions
• Function parameters and signatures
• Recursive function patterns
• Callback functions

Arrays & Transformations

• Array creation & access
• Using for..in & for..of loops with arrays
• Common array methods
• Destructuring arrays
• Advanced collection operations
• forEach(), map(), filter(), reduce(), some(), and every()

String Handling

• String creation and formatting
• String methods
• String immutability

Object Modeling

• Object creation
• Accessing properties
• Nested objects
• Destructuring

Async JavaScript

• Callbacks
• Promises
• async/await

Classes and Modules

• Classes and objects
• Constructors and methods
• Creating and exporting modules
• Importing modules

Conversions & Debugging

• Date & Math methods
• Type conversion and casting
• User input
• Debugging

Modern ES6+ Features

• Key ES6+ syntax and patterns

TypeScript Overview

• JavaScript compared to TypeScript
• Writing and running TypeScript code
• Dynamic versus static typing
• Type safety
• Type annotations
• Type inference
• Data types

Object-Oriented Concepts

• Class fundamentals
• Constructors & methods
• Readonly properties
• Static variables & methods
• Overloading

Inheritance & Access

• Types of inheritance
• super keyword
• Overriding
• Access modifiers: public, private, protected
• Encapsulation
• Abstract class

Advanced Typing

• Type aliases
• Interfaces
• Enums

Getting Started

• Playwright installation and project bootstrapping
• Authoring your first automation script
• Using async/await and promise flows
• Running tests in headed/headless mode
• Using HTML reports and UI mode

Selectors & Locators

• Built-in locators: getByRole, getByLabel, getByText
• CSS selectors and XPath
• Dynamic elements and changing DOM handling

UI Actions

• Clicking, typing, checkbox and radio actions
• Handling dropdowns
• Working with web tables
• Automating date pickers

Advanced UI Scenarios

• iFrames and multiple tab handling
• Alerts and dialogs
• Mouse and keyboard actions
• Scrolling techniques
• File uploads

Browser Handling

• Browser contexts and sessions
• Managing cookies
• Handling viewport and proxy
• SSL configurations

Special Topics

• Shadow DOM handling
• SVG elements

Core Capabilities

• Auto-waiting and timeout tuning
• Assertions (hard vs soft)
• Test recording using codegen
• Debugging techniques

Debugging & Evidence

• Screenshot capture strategy
• Video recording
• Trace Viewer for root-cause debugging

Suite Management

• Retries and flaky test control
• Test grouping and hooks
• Tags and annotations

Execution Strategy

• Parallel test execution
• Parameterization
• Data-driven testing

Result Reporting

• HTML reports
• Allure report integration

Framework Building Blocks

• Page Object Model (POM)
• Running tests via package.json scripts

Advanced Quality Checks

• Visual testing using snapshot comparison
• Accessibility testing (WCAG standards, Axe tool)

Framework Setup

• Framework architecture deep dive
• Scalable project folder structure
• Environment and config management

Implementation

• Page Object class design
• Test data management (JSON, CSV)
• Reusable utility/helper layers
• Data providers
• Dynamic data generation using Faker

Execution & Reporting

• Tag-driven execution
• Parallel and sequential runs
• HTML and Allure reports

Version Control & CI/CD

• Introduction to Git
• Repository workflows in GitHub
• Setting up GitHub Actions
• Automation integration with Jenkins
• Building CI/CD pipelines
• Automated test execution in pipelines

API Automation

• HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
• Request payload handling (static & dynamic)
• Path and query parameters
• API chaining

Validations

• Status-code validation
• Response-header validation
• JSON response validation

Authentication

• Basic authentication
• Token-based authentication
• API key authentication
• Network interception

Practical AI Usage

• Usage of Playwright MCP
• Usage of AI in Playwright automation