04/05/2026
Visual testing in Playwright looks simple—until CI gets involved.
Do you fail immediately?
Wait until the suite finishes?
Or separate visual validation from test ex*****on entirely?
One flag → three different strategies.
Noam Gaash lines out how to think about the tradeoffs:
https://bit.ly/3NPWsSS
Visual testing in Playwright often forces teams to choose between strict failures, snapshot maintenance, and CI pipeline complexity. This article explores how a single configuration flag introduces three different strategies for handling visual differen...