Filip Hric

24th March 2025

Playwright in Production

Hello Reader,
I’ll be doing a live webinar with my friend Jonathan tomorrow. We’ll be talking about different use-cases of Playwright in production. Interestingly we’ll focus on use cases that are outside of testing, like web-scraping, monitoring and automation workflows. Make sure to register and join us!

Blogposts, discussions, events

In Case You Missed It – Code (r)evolution Livestream

Last week, Jonathan and I unpacked what’s happening with AI and how it's changing the way we write code.

Watch it here →

Newsletter Pick: Web Weekly

If you love front-end dev and design, my friend Stefan does a Web Weekly newsletter, which you should definitely check out. It is an excellent resource, full of gems.

AI is Making Software skills More Valuable, not less

This fantastic short video explains why the value of software development knowledge is increasing, not decreasing.

Watch the video →

Test automation tip

 1  it('contains with multiple elements', () => {
   2  
   3    cy.visit('/board/1')
   4  
   5    cy.get('[data-cy=list]')
   6      .eq(1)
   7      .contains('bug')
   8  
   9    cy.get('[data-cy=card]:contains(bug)')
  10  
  11  })

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Filip Hric

Teaching testers about development, and developers about testing

filip@filiphric.sk, Senec, Slovakia 90301
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