Supercharged Testing: AI-Powered Workflows with Playwright + MCP

AI is changing how we build software—and it's about to change how we test it. In this session, you'll learn how to supercharge your end-to-end testing strategy by combining Playwright’s powerful test capabilities with the Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server to enable intelligent, AI-assisted workflows.

Testing

Tooling

Web

We'll start with a focused deep dive into Playwright itself: modern locators, resilient test patterns, parallelization, and debugging features that help teams test faster and smarter. Then we'll explore how to connect the Playwright MCP Server to an LLM, allowing you to:
- Automatically generate meaningful tests from user flows or requirements
- Identify gaps in test coverage
- Debug and repair failing or flaky tests
- Interact with your running application via natural language

This talk is ideal for developers, testers, and QA engineers who want to level up their automation stack, reduce test maintenance, and bring AI into real-world testing workflows. Expect live demos and practical strategies you can take back to your team.

Debbie O'Brien

Debbie O’Brien is Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Debbie has over 15 years experience in Frontend development. She has worked as a Tech Lead and consultant for many important clients with varios technologies and often with a strong focus on performance, static sites and testing. She has lead teams both in house and remotely as well as giving workshops and training. She has many years of experience as a mentor for online learning platforms, Treehouse and OpenClassrooms. Debbie is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies, Cloudinary Media Developer Expert and Nuxt Ambassador as well as a GitHub Star alumni and a previous Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in developer technologies.

Debbie has a special love for JavaScript frameworks especially Vue.js and Nuxt.js and React as well as testing where she now focuses her time on Playwright end to end testing. She holds a Frontend and FullStack Tech Degree and is Microsoft certified. Debbie is an international speaker, who has spoken at many meet-ups and conferences worldwide on many continents including Antarctica. She is an open source contributor and a teacher at Vue School and Jamstack Explorers and is also a writer for Ultimate Courses.

Debbie is Irish but lives and works in Mallorca, Spain and when she is not writing code and studying new technologies she can often be found doing all sorts of sports from running, cycling, padel, body combat and skiing and of course Taekwondo where she is a 4th degree black belt.