SECTION 1 — SOFTWARE TESTING FOUNDATIONS

1. Introduction to Software Testing
2. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
3. STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle)
4. SDLC vs Agile vs DevOps
5. Manual Testing vs Automation Testing
6. Career Path: Manual Tester vs Automation Tester vs SDET

SECTION 2 — INTRODUCTION TO PLAYWRIGHT

1. What is Playwright?
2. Why Playwright is Popular
3. Playwright vs Selenium vs Cypress
4. Playwright Architecture
5. Supported Browsers & Languages
6. Playwright Use Cases
7. Web vs Mobile vs API Automation
8. Installation & Setup
9. JavaScript vs TypeScript Setup
10. Project Structure & Configuration
11. Running First Playwright Test
12. Playwright CLI & Codegen
13. Playwright Inspector & Trace Viewer

SECTION 3 — SELENIUM FUNDAMENTALS

1. What is Selenium?
2. Selenium Components
3. Selenium Architecture
4. Selenium Grid Architecture
5. Selenium Version Evolution (1 → 4)
6. Selenium 4 Features
7. W3C WebDriver Protocol
8. Relative Locators
9. Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP)
10. Selenium Grid 4 Internal Components
11. Browser Drivers
12. Selenium Limitations
13. Selenium vs Playwright

SECTION 4 — JAVASCRIPT BASICS FOR AUTOMATION

JavaScript Fundamentals

1. Variables & Data Types
2. Operators
3. Conditional Statements
4. Loops
5. Functions
6. Arrow Functions (Lambda Functions)
7. Scope & Hoisting
8. DOM Basics
9. $ and $$ in JavaScript

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

1. Objects & Classes
2. Constructor Functions
3. Inheritance
4. Encapsulation
5. Polymorphism
6. Abstraction
7. Static Methods
8. Access Modifiers
9. Function Overloading

Async JavaScript

1. Promises
2. async/await
3. Callbacks
4. Error Handling

SECTION 5 — TYPESCRIPT FOR PLAYWRIGHT

1. Introduction to TypeScript
2. Why TypeScript for Automation
3. Type Annotations
4. Interfaces
5. Types vs Interfaces
6. Access Modifiers
7. readonly Keyword
8. unknown vs any vs undefined
9. Generics Basics
10. TypeScript Best Practices

SECTION 6 — PLAYWRIGHT CORE CONCEPTS

1. Browser & Context
2. Pages & Tabs
3. Locators in Playwright
4. Auto-Wait Mechanism
5. Assertions
6. Timeouts & Configuration
7. Navigation Handling
8. Web Interactions
9. Frames & iFrames
10. Alerts & Dialogs
11. Mouse Actions
12. Keyboard Actions
13. Dropdown Handling
14. File Upload & Download
15. Screenshots & Videos
16. Multiple Tabs & Windows

SECTION 7 — ADVANCED PLAYWRIGHT AUTOMATION

1. Parallel Execution
2. Fixtures in Playwright
3. Hooks (Before/After)
4. Test Data Management
5. Parameterization
6. Environment Configuration
7. Retry Mechanism
8. Tags & Filtering
9. Debugging Techniques
10. Trace Viewer
11. Network Interception
12. API Mocking
13. Performance Optimization
14. Mobile Emulation

SECTION 8 — API TESTING WITH PLAYWRIGHT

1. API Testing Basics
2. REST API Automation
3. CRUD Operations
4. Authentication vs Authorization
5. Bearer Tokens
6. OAuth 1.0 & OAuth 2.0
7. Headers & Request Payloads
8. API Assertions
9. Chaining API & UI Tests
10. GraphQL Testing
11. Contract Testing Basics

SECTION 9 — BDD FRAMEWORK WITH CUCUMBER

1. Introduction to BDD
2. Gherkin Syntax
3. Feature Files
4. Step Definitions
5. Scenario Outline
6. Tags in Cucumber
7. Hooks in Cucumber
8. cucumber.js vs cucumber-ts
9. playwright-bdd Integration
10. Reusable Step Definitions
11. Execution Flow

SECTION 10 — FRAMEWORK DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

1. Page Object Model (POM)
2. Design Patterns
3. Reusable Components
4. Utility Functions
5. Base Framework Setup
6. Config Management
7. Logging
8. Exception Handling
9. Error Recovery
10. Framework Best Practices
11. Enterprise Framework Structure

SECTION 11 — REPORTING & CI/CD

1. Playwright Reporters
2. HTML Reports
3. JSON Reports
4. Allure Reports
5. Cucumber Reports
6. Screenshot & Video Reports
7. GitHub Actions
8. Jenkins Integration
9. Docker Integration
10. Kubernetes Basics
11. CI/CD Pipeline Setup
12. Parallel Execution in CI

SECTION 12 — AI-POWERED TESTING

1. Introduction to AI Testing
2. MCP (Model Context Protocol)
3. Claude AI Integration
4. AI-Assisted Test Generation
5. Playwright MCP Integration
6. AI-Based Debugging
7. Self-Healing Concepts
8. Future of AI in Testing

SECTION 13 — STRINGS & DATA STRUCTURES

1. Strings in JavaScript
2. String Methods
3. String Logic Programs
4. Arrays in JavaScript
5. Array Methods
6. map(), filter(), reduce()
7. Objects & JSON
8. Sets & Maps
9. Real Coding Examples

SECTION 14 — REAL-TIME PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

1. End-to-End Framework Setup
2. E-Commerce Automation Project
3. UI + API Hybrid Framework
4. CI/CD Integration
5. Dockerized Framework
6. Reporting Integration
7. Environment Management
8. Parallel Execution Setup
9. Enterprise Best Practices

🎯 BONUS SECTIONS

✅ Cheat Sheets

✅ Common Errors & Fixes

✅ Debugging Guide

✅ Playwright Commands Quick Reference

✅ GitHub Repository Setup

✅ VS Code Extensions

✅ Docker Commands Cheat Sheet/basics

✅ CI/CD YAML Examples

✅ Real Interview Answers

https://github.com/ANSHULAGARWAL09/Playwright_TS-BDD