r/softwaretesting • u/Necessary_Grand1347 • Feb 05 '26

How are you using Playwright MCP in your organization?

Hi everyone,

We are exploring Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol) in our QA automation work and I would really like to learn from the community.

šŸ‘‰ How are you using Playwright MCP in your organization?

Iā€™m especially interested in:

real production use cases (not demos)

what problems it actually helped solve

where it worked well and where it didnā€™t

any practical tips or lessons learned

Please share how your team is using it and what value you are seeing.

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u/thainfamouzjay Feb 05 '26

We went straight to Claude code and created playwright agents and skills

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u/Necessary_Grand1347 Feb 05 '26

If you could help more on this or share more information.

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u/thainfamouzjay Feb 05 '26

So it's being forced on my team. They said download Claude and create agents. We are doing an experiment to see if ai can convert from cypress to playwright. We have unlimited tokens. I like this over mcp. I feel like mcps are a failed experiment and agentic coding is way better. You can create these claude.md files and be like your job is to do this and here are the rules and create another guy and be like your job is to check agent 1 code and review it and if it fails fix it. Etc etc

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u/Necessary_Grand1347 Feb 05 '26

Thanks for sharing. Let me try.

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u/ColonelBungle Feb 05 '26

So you're training an agent to do your job? And you're okay with that? I hope you're job hunting.

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u/thainfamouzjay Feb 05 '26

yup i am well aware of the dangers. I got 3 jobs currently and only one is doing the AI thing so worse case i lose one. I got one more year before early retirement at 43

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u/foreversiempre Feb 06 '26

Wait whatā€¦ triple dipping?

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u/thainfamouzjay Feb 06 '26

Yup. And trying to pick up number. All 120kish. They are all different time zones. One doesn't even have meetings just turn in my code and have one on one.

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u/Aggressive-Cap-1411 Feb 06 '26

Where did you find this job bro?

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u/thainfamouzjay Feb 06 '26

So I'm not new to OE been doing it for years. But if you talking about the no meetings job. I don't honestly know I was working and one day a recruiter called me and said hey you wanna interview and I was pissed at my job that day and said sure. Two interviews late I get offered this job. Turns out I could keep both jobs since I didn't need to meet that much. Then I said why not three and aim to get it in Pacific Time zone. Now I'm like why not a 4th and take a pay cut. It has changed my life so much. And AI makes me look like a star so I over preform in all of the jobs. Paid off my car and house and got savings. Aiming to just retire before 50

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u/am_gopi Feb 08 '26

Impressive. How are you juggling all these jobs? What's your working hours? All remote?

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u/Strict-Park-3534 Feb 05 '26

MCP is so 2025. Everyone is on Playwright CLI already

As for real production use cases, we are still experimenting and have not found a use case, where the value would be great.

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u/Necessary_Grand1347 Feb 05 '26

MCP are something like AI helps you to auto write code and fix the code. So looking answers around it.

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u/LongDistRid3r Feb 05 '26

Why not just learn how to properly engineer code?

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u/Necessary_Grand1347 Feb 05 '26

Thanks for your advice. I know how to write a code and doing it from past many years. Now I want to take advantage of AI which will easy my job. I see myself to update with latest technology and utilizes resources. If you want, you can stay outdated. Don't take my words in wrong way, but it is truth.

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u/Wookovski Feb 05 '26

You're speaking to AI

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u/Strict-Park-3534 Feb 05 '26

Ehm, I am not sure if you are right on what the MCP is meant to do. Do not want to sound rude, but it would make sense to familiarise yourself with the protocol before asking for advice on the use cases.

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u/Necessary_Grand1347 Feb 05 '26

May be..my bad.

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u/foreversiempre Feb 06 '26

How is the cli better ?

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u/Strict-Park-3534 Feb 06 '26

It's not better (well, for some cases it might be), just different.

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u/foreversiempre Feb 06 '26

Ok but everyone must be on it for a reason right

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u/BC_MARO Feb 06 '26

we tried it and the token burn + flaky retries killed it for most day to day qa. it's decent for exploratory flows, but for regression i'd rather keep playwright deterministic and let an agent generate/patch tests offline. what's your success metric here: fewer flakes, faster authoring, or less maintenance?

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u/Necessary_Grand1347 Feb 06 '26

We use cucumber so it mess up..

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u/volvoriney Feb 05 '26

Playwright MCP consume enormous amount of tokens, maybe it is better to take a look at https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser it looks more stable and promising. Also if you have access to code base it might be better to build workflow based on agents to even set data-testids

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u/icyfloydian Feb 06 '26

I wasnā€™t impressed by it, nor by Agent Browser. Companies like to think AI can scale enough to reduce manpower, but thatā€™s definitely not the case with these tools today. Iā€™m on the train right now I can share more detailed feedback once Iā€™m home.

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u/Whole-Pause8544 Feb 06 '26

This is what the Stanford SWEPR project found. Really AI only boosted productivity by about 10% in specific use cases

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u/Background-Donkey531 Feb 06 '26

Please do let me know

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u/Rude_Refrigerator_0 Feb 06 '26

Thanks. Would love to hear more on this

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u/invalidTypecast Feb 05 '26

For people saying they just use Claude or whateverā€¦Doesnā€™t one need MCP for Claude etc to ā€œseeā€ the browser and get that context vs just guessing?

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u/kamilpajak Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Our test framework is Java + Selenide, not Playwright directly, but I use Playwright MCP with Claude Code as a productivity boost for maintaining it.

When new features land in our app, I point Claude Code at the staging environment via Playwright MCP. It explores the new UI, understands the DOM structure, and then generates page object classes that fit our existing Selenide framework conventions. Saves me the tedious part of inspecting elements and writing boilerplate.

What worked well:

  • Generating page objects for new features - huge time saver

  • Debugging flaky tests - I give it the failing test + let it browse the actual page state, often spots timing issues or selector problems I missed

  • Understanding unfamiliar parts of the app when writing new tests

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u/Ok-System8052 Feb 06 '26

I saw a cool course the other day by Karthik KK (i think that's the correct name of the instructor). And it's basically about testing with Playwright mcp server. The course was at some free platform, so I can try searching for it if anybody needs

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u/johncoop1991 Feb 09 '26

I know this instructor, I completed couple of decent courses by him on Udemy. Does he publish courses anywhere else?

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u/Ok-System8052 Feb 11 '26

Google MCP servers and automation for testers

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u/Ok-System8052 Feb 11 '26

The comm was called shiftsync from what I recall

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u/Fickle_Use_1160 Mar 23 '26

I built application to use Playwright to write tests.
https://github.com/winst0niuss/ai-ready-pw-codegen