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Playwright Java API Testing | How to test POST requests?

Mohammad Faisal Khatri
13 min readSep 22, 2024

Playwright as everyone knows is a test automation framework developed by Microsoft. It is available across multiple programming languages like Java, NodeJS, Python, and .Net. It supports Web as well as API Test Automation.

With 67.2k Stars and 3.7k fork over GitHub, it has gained a lot of popularity. It has rich features that allow testing web applications using major browsers as well as performing API Testing.

In this tutorial blog, we will learn how to set up Playwright with Java and test POST API requests in API Automation testing.

Getting Started

Before we begin writing the test scripts to perform API Automation testing using Playwright Java, let’s first discuss the prerequisites, project creation and setup.

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites and need to be installed on the machine to start with smooth setup and installation.

  1. Java JDK 17
  2. IntelliJ IDE or any other IDE to create project and write automated tests
  3. Maven

Creating a new Project

We will be creating a Maven project using IntelliJ IDE. The following steps will help in creating a new…

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Mohammad Faisal Khatri
Mohammad Faisal Khatri

Written by Mohammad Faisal Khatri

QA with 16+ years of experience in automation as well as manual testing. Freelancer, Blogger, Trainer, Mentor and open source contirbutor.

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