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The Playwright Experiment: What Our QA Team Learned by Building It Ourselves

What Happened When Leapwork Built Its Own Playwright Framework, a real build, tracked hour by hour, not by estimates.

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Executive Summary

What you will learn

Rather than rely on estimates, Leapwork's own QA and engineering team built and operated a Playwright and TypeScript framework against a live product. The Leapwork team also tracked every hour of the effort.

The resulting white paper, Playwright DIY, is a data set, not an argument. It’s meant to give any team evaluating the same path a realistic baseline to plan against.

Documents a real Playwright and TypeScript framework, built and operated against a live product

Found that roughly 80% of early AI-assisted scripts executed successfully without ever confirming the business outcome they were meant to test

Puts the ongoing cost of keeping the suite dependable at roughly $172,000 a year, then compares the same test cases against Leapwork Play hour for hour