Practicing Playwright: Logging in by Storing and Using an Authentication Cookie in Your Automated Tests

I absolutely love that LinkedIn offers a free month-long trial period of LinkedIn Learning. Butch Mayhew's Playwright Essential Training: Abstractions, Fixtures, and Complex Scenarios course has been a wonderful resource learning more about Playwright. .With this blog post, I will be walking through Butch's code on how to set up an automated test to log into an app without going through the user interface. All it needs is the login cookie. Butch Mayhew's companion GitHub site on LinkedIn Learning's GitHub page. Site under test: Practice Software Testing: https://practicesoftwaretesting.comOfficial Playwright Documentation: https://playwright.dev/docsOfficial Playwright GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/playwrightWhen testing a shopping cart app such as the Practice Software Testing website, it can get tedious. You need to open a browser, go to the login page, enter a username, enter a password, hit the login button, and verify you have logged in correctly every time you want to…