Architecture Defaults

Pack: playwright Parent skill: Playwright Default Test Architecture Source: playwright/playwright-default-test-architecture/references/architecture-defaults.md Default suite posture:

1. one config file
2. a small number of projects
3. tests grouped by feature or journey
4. shared setup in fixtures
5. retries used sparingly

Good fixture responsibilities:

• authenticated session bootstrap
• test data bootstrap
• page-object-like helpers only when they remove real repetition

Bad fixture responsibilities:

• hiding the entire test story
• branching heavily by feature
• owning business logic assertions

Default CI stance:

• retries can exist
• traces on retry or failure
• deterministic environment first
• parallelism tuned to infra stability, not maximized blindly