From Test Scripts to CI/CD: Playwright + Jenkins + GitHub Actions

🚀 What I Learned While Integrating Playwright with Jenkins and GitHub Actions

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on building and automating my Playwright tests using JavaScript. This journey also helped me explore CI/CD integration using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and here’s what I learned along the way:

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🎭 Playwright with JavaScript

• I used Playwright with JavaScript to automate end-to-end testing for a sample web application.

• Implemented the Page Object Model (POM) for better structure and reusability.

• Learned how to validate both UI and API responses using Playwright.

• Used Playwright Test Runner, assertions, and test config to handle multiple environments.

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🔁 Jenkins Integration

• Installed and configured Jenkins locally.

• Created a freestyle project and triggered Playwright tests using shell commands.

• Set up Allure Reports for detailed test result visualization.

• Learned how to pull code from GitHub, install dependencies, and run tests with npm.

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⚙️ GitHub Actions CI Workflow

• Created a .yml workflow to run Playwright tests on every push.

• Used steps like actions/checkout, node setup, npm install, and npx playwright test.

• Now I can automatically run tests on every commit, improving code quality and confidence.

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💡 Final Thoughts

This experience helped me understand how test automation fits into real-world CI/CD pipelines. Playwright’s simplicity with JavaScript, combined with automation in Jenkins and GitHub Actions, gave me confidence to build more scalable test frameworks.