From a shopping-cart rule to a test result.
The spec adds products to a cart. A page object reads the displayed unit price, quantity and total, then checks the arithmetic. Another test asks for four units and verifies the quantity shown in the cart.
Line total should equal unit price × quantity.
CartPage reads the row and checks the relation.
The test passes or shows exactly which check failed.
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Look at Test Cases 12 and 13 in the public playwright-automation-exercise repository ↗. The application under test is an e-commerce site. This walkthrough follows its actual test code.
Two cart lines
Test Case 12 adds product IDs 1 and 2, opens the cart and calls the same total calculation check for each. The rule is price × quantity = displayed total.
Open the spec ↗Assertion in CartPage
The page object reads the displayed price, quantity and total, converts them to numbers, and asserts that the quantity is positive and the total matches the calculation.
Open the assertion ↗Quantity four
Test Case 13 sets quantity to four before adding a product, then checks the cart shows 4. It checks persistence of quantity; it does not independently assert the total for that case.
CI evidence
The workflow uploads the HTML report and test results on every run. The configuration also asks for a trace on first retry and screenshots and video on failure.
Open the pipeline ↗const price = Number(priceText.replace(/[^0-9.]/g, ''));
const quantity = Number(quantityText.trim());
const total = Number(totalText.replace(/[^0-9.]/g, ''));
expect(quantity).toBeGreaterThan(0);
expect(total).toBe(price * quantity);What will Test Case 12 miss if the displayed unit price itself is wrong?
It will miss the incorrect price if the displayed total is still consistent with that incorrect price. Compare against an independent expected price if this matters.
Does Test Case 13 also check the line total for quantity four?
No. That test asserts that the cart shows the quantity 4. Test Case 12 checks total calculations for two separate products.
Does a Chromium CI run prove Firefox and WebKit pass?
No. The configuration defines those browsers, but the current test:ci script selects Chromium and the workflow only installs Chromium.
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The page object reads a cart row and checks its arithmetic.
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