I’ve been exploring Playwright for test automation and one thing I’ve been thinking about is how efficiently teams are actually using it beyond simply automating test cases.

Playwright provides features such as auto-waiting, web-first assertions, parallel execution, browser contexts, network interception, tracing, and built-in test isolation. But having access to these features doesn’t necessarily mean a test suite is designed efficiently.

For example, a team could have a large number of automated tests, but still face issues such as flaky tests, duplicated scenarios, slow execution, difficult maintenance, or poor coverage.

This made me curious about how other teams approach Playwright in real-world projects.

What practices have you found most effective for using Playwright efficiently in a growing test automation suite?

Do you focus more on test architecture, locator strategy, parallel execution, test isolation, reducing duplication, or something else?

I’d be interested to hear what has worked well for others and what approaches you found did not work as expected.