{"id":44765,"date":"2026-02-17T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jbsagolf.com\/blogs\/?p=44765"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:48:47","slug":"how-to-tag-tests-in-playwright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jbsagolf.com\/blogs\/how-to-tag-tests-in-playwright\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tag Tests in Playwright"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever waited 30 minutes for your full test automation suite to run, just to check one login flow? Or worse, pushed code to production only to realize a critical test was silently skipped?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re managing hundreds (or thousands) of automated tests, you’re probably wrestling with bloated runs, flaky CI jobs, and unclear test coverage. That\u2019s where test tagging comes in. It’s not just a nice-to-have – it’s how modern teams tame chaos and take control.<\/span><\/p>\n

Test tagging is a strategy used across nearly every major test automation framework, including Selenium, Cypress, JUnit, Playwright, and even tools powered by <\/span>AI for QA testing<\/span><\/a>. By tagging your tests with meaningful labels like <\/span>@smoke<\/span>, <\/span>@regression<\/span>, or <\/span>@critical<\/span>, you gain the ability to:<\/span><\/p>\n