Playwright adoption tends to go wrong in the same way. A team decides to migrate, rewrites the entire suite at once, and a few months later they're dealing with a slow CI pipeline, flaky tests, and a team that's stopped trusting the results. The framework isn't the problem. The approach was.

Run a pilot first

Pick one critical user flow, define your exit criteria before you start, and give it two to four weeks. By the end you'll have real data on:

How long full migration actually takes

Where your test data breaks down

What your CI setup needs to handle

Which parts of training the team struggled with most That information shapes everything that follows.

Sort out test data early

Shared database state is one of the most common sources of flakiness in Playwright suites.…