Adventures in Automation

How would you intercept a network request and use the data for assertions? Mock a network request using those assertions? And make sure that all data is loaded in the UI before making your assertions, and that all tests can pass when run? 
We will be walking through Butch Mayhew's code that answers all of these questions, part of his LinkedIn Learning course:

If you want to do some basic visual checking to see if there has been any deviation from your baseline of images, you can use Playwright. It's built in! Playwright can take a snapshot of a web element, a visible viewport, or a full page, and save it in your Git repository as a baseline, failing the test if the image, page, or viewport does not match up. 
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Are you in Boston? Come hear me talk about Building a a React Native Mobile Automated Test Framework in tonight's Software Quality Group of New England meeting in Burlington, MA:Registration Page: https://sqgne.org/n-May-2026.htmlSlide Deck:

Continuing walking through Butch Mayhew's LinkedIn Learning course Playwright Essential Training: Abstractions, Fixtures, and Complex Scenarios, we will be examining his code creating a DataFacto...

Butch Mayhew's LinkedIn Learning Course Playwright Essential Training: Abstractions, Fixtures, and Complex Scenarios has been a wonderful resource learning more about Playwright.
With this blog post, I ...