How Playwright Transforms Car‑Insurance UI Testing: From Recording to Automated Reporting

Background

In car insurance systems, many insurers need integration. Each new feature iteration requires regression testing of each insurer's quotation process, leading to repetitive and labor‑intensive work.

The insurance purchase flow is mainly an H5 page covering quoting, underwriting, and other core stages. UI automation for these functions can fully cover test scenarios, reducing manual effort and error rate.

Playwright is chosen for its cross‑browser support, simple API and asynchronous handling, improving test efficiency and accuracy.

Tools

Playwright is a powerful UI automation tool that can record and generate code, supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, works on Windows, Linux, macOS, and scripts can be written in Python, C#, Java, etc. It provides rich APIs for complex interactions and automatic waiting.

Installation

Install Playwright with a single pip command: pip3 install playwright Then install the browsers:

playwright install

Practice

Car‑insurance system

The system flow (see Fig.2) includes vehicle information entry, online quoting and underwriting, all of which can be covered by Playwright UI automation.

Recording

Use Playwright’s codegen to record test cases, e.g., npx playwright codegen --device='iPhone 13', which opens a mobile browser and the inspector that generates code as actions are performed.

Select the target language (default Python, can switch to Java, etc.).

After recording, copy the generated code into an IDE, add assertions, and run.

import com.microsoft.playwright.*;
// ... (rest of Java example)

Page‑API response verification

Playwright also allows intercepting requests and responses. Using page.onResponse and checking URLs, one can parse JSON responses, e.g., extracting license numbers from the queryCarHomePage API.

page.onResponse(response -> {
    if (response.url().contains("queryCarHomePage")) {
        // parse response body ...
    }
});

Automated UI testing system based on Playwright

A full automation pipeline can record cases locally, upload them to a database, schedule execution, and generate reports (see Fig.6).

Demo

A demo combines recorded UI steps with API validation to switch vehicles on the home page and fetch quotations. // Java demo code ... Execution results are shown in Fig.7.

Conclusion and Outlook

Playwright enables reliable, fast, maintainable automation scripts that simulate real user interactions, ensuring UI stability across environments. Automating case generation, scheduled execution, and reporting can greatly improve testing efficiency and reduce labor costs. Future work will continue to evolve the car‑insurance UI automation framework.