Live Coding in Playwright

Yes exactly! Our behemoth of a web app was taking 25s initial load time (much faster when cached so it just wasn’t a priority to fix performance). Average test run time for a workflow test is 2 minutes. That means when authoring them and I’m trying to get selectors and crap right it takes me 5 tries for the next line of the test, waiting for 60-90s between each try. The result is it takes 3-4 hours to author a single medium complexity test. And my brain is mush for the rest of the day. I hated that and would subconsciously avoid writing tests.

What I’ve developed allows me immediate feedback every step of the way. It makes it _fun_ again so I can keep my head in the game and finish a test in 15-20 minutes and feel accomplished instead of burnt out. I’ve also taken an approach where the tooling (especially the recorder, and soon the page object model support) brings you 80-90% off the way there, but _always_ plays well with user created code - it has some loose basic expectations of the interface, but it doesn’t need to own the generated code - that’s just a starting point for you to improve it.

Super excited. My company already has a precedent for open sourcing projects so I’m hoping this won’t take more than a week or two to get it there. I’m on vacation for a week but plan to finish the page object model story when I get back.