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Scaling Playwright with Serenity/JS

The hardest part of scaling Playwright across an enterprise isn’t writing initial tests—it’s preventing your automation from becoming a copy-pasted, high-maintenance maze.

In this webinar, Jan Molak, creator of Serenity/JS and co-author of BDD in Action, Second Edition, explores how to move beyond isolated scripts to build a shared test architecture. Rather than treating test suites as team silos, he focuses on design patterns that allow multiple projects to share execution logic while delivering actionable release signals to engineering leads, architects, and product owners alike.

The session looks inside the Serenity/JS HTML Reporter’s own test suite, showing how composable patterns test a complex SPA across 3 viewports, 7 views, and hundreds of scenarios. You will explore a walkthrough of the new reporter, a single npm package requiring no Java, showing how build trends, error clustering, and flaky test detection answer “can we ship?” in 30 seconds. Finally, we’ll discuss upcoming Visual AI integration integrations that combine functional evidence with visual regression detection in a single report.

Key takeaways:

  • How the Screenplay Pattern provides an architecture for composable, shared test libraries
  • Why test reports should serve as a quality tool for the whole team, not just developers
  • How progressive adoption delivers immediate reporting value without rewriting existing Playwright code
  • What trend history and error clustering reveal that single-run test reports miss entirely
  • How structured design patterns bridge technical debugging and business release decisions

In this webinar, Jan Molak, creator of Serenity/JS, explores how to move beyond isolated scripts to build a shared test architecture. Rather than treating test suites as team silos, he focuses on design patterns that allow multiple projects to share execution logic while delivering actionable release signals to engineering leads, architects, and product owners alike.

Key takeaways:

  • How the Screenplay Pattern provides an architecture for composable, shared test libraries
  • Why test reports should serve as a quality tool for the whole team, not just developers
  • How progressive adoption delivers immediate reporting value without rewriting existing Playwright code
  • What trend history and error clustering reveal that single-run test reports miss entirely
  • How structured design patterns bridge technical debugging and business release decisions
Scaling Playwright with Serenity/JS

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Expert Speakers

Jan Molak
Jan Molak

Serenity/JS

Jan Molak is a consultant and trainer with over 20 years of experience helping teams deliver high-quality software. As the creator of Serenity/JS, co-author of <em><strong>BDD in Action, Second Edition</strong></em>, and a pioneer of the Screenplay Pattern, he specializes in Behavior-Driven Development and test automation, helping organizations catch issues earlier and streamline continuous delivery.

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