Playwright Test Generator

As a SDET, my question is - does anyone uses tools such as this in professional work? If yes, what is the use case?<p>IME, creating and developing an automated test framework is 1% trying to find the best locator, and 99% maintenance of tests that use dynamic, nondeterministic flows, fighting with backend issues&#x2F;flakiness etc. I find Codegen to be OK-ish for only the simplest&#x2F;worthless test paths.

It works quite decently. I&#x27;ve noticed a nice side-effect of setting up playwright tests is that it helps catch accessibility issues, like interactive elements not being properly labeled as such.

Probably worth pointing out, this isn&#x27;t new to playwright, and it&#x27;s not a new idea in general (Selenium IDE).

I sometimes use the generator to get an idea of what selectors I might want to use and then extract the relevant bits to page objects. The risk is that not everyone knows that recorded tests are a starting point and not the destination.

If you are looking for something that generates selectors for you but also gives you some control and granularity, I made a free chrome extension called automize

I think this doesn&#x27;t work with tsx tool, which is kinda annoying :(

Unreasonably shameless plug for my open source Python library Helium [1], so you don&#x27;t need a test generator.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mherrmann&#x2F;helium">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mherrmann&#x2F;helium</a>