How to Become an SDET: A Practical Roadmap for Manual Testers
A step-by-step roadmap from manual tester to SDET: the skills to learn in order, the portfolio projects that impress, and how to prepare for interviews.
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A step-by-step roadmap from manual tester to SDET: the skills to learn in order, the portfolio projects that impress, and how to prepare for interviews.
An honest comparison of Selenium and Playwright: architecture, waiting, speed, languages, browsers and jobs, plus advice on which to learn first.
AI writes Playwright tests in seconds, but it invents selectors and weak assertions. Use this checklist before you trust generated test code.
Cut long Playwright runs by splitting them across machines in GitHub Actions, then merge every shard into one HTML report. Full workflow included.
Retries turn the dashboard green but hide real problems. A step-by-step method to reproduce, diagnose and permanently fix flaky Playwright tests.
Make Playwright end-to-end tests faster and more reliable: create test data through the API, check the result in the UI and clean up with fixtures.
Learn which Playwright locators to use first, from getByRole to test IDs, CSS and XPath, and how to write locators that don't break when the UI changes.
Why every Playwright action needs await, what really breaks when you forget it, which calls don't need it, and how to catch missing awaits automatically.