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1/ End-to-end tests are supposed to give you confidence. Instead, many Playwright setups create… chaos. Here’s why (and what to do instead) 🧵

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3/ Signs your Playwright setup is failing • Flaky tests due to shared state or data interference • Failures on retries because of leftover state • Tests wasting time on repetitive UI setup • Symptoms reappearing unexpectedly

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4/ The core problem: too much setup in the UI. If half your suite is just logging in, preparing users, etc., you’re doing it wrong.

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5/ The alternative: API-driven test data Create your users, subscriptions, and test state via API instead of the UI. Use fixtures to inject that data into Playwright.