Playwright Fixtures: The Practical Guide to Fast, Clean End-to-End Tests

If you’re working on a small project, a couple of basic fixtures will usually do the job

But as your codebase grows — think micro-frontends, multiple back-end services, dozens of test users — those once-simple patterns can quickly spiral out of control. Fixtures multiply, tests slow down, and your tidy setup becomes a tangled mess.

A reliable test suite doesn’t just run — it haunts bugs out of the codebase.

Below I’ll share the techniques tha…