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Automated Drupal 11 Testing: CI/CD Superpowers with GitHub Actions & Playwright

Here’s a GitHub Actions workflow that triggers on updates to the master branch, spins up a Drupal 11 site using Docker, and then runs three sample Playwright tests. This script is meant to be run in your repository root as .github/workflows/drupal11-playwright.yml.

Assumptions:

  • You have a standard Drupal 11 codebase (composer-based).
  • You have a tests/playwright directory with your Playwright test scripts.
  • You want to run three sample Playwright tests (you can swap the file names as needed).
name: Build & Test Drupal 11 with Playwright

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  drupal-playwright:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    services:
      mysql:
        image: mysql:8.0
        env:
          MYSQL_DATABASE: drupal
          MYSQL_USER: drupal
          MYSQL_PASSWORD: drupal
          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
        ports:
          - 3306:3306
        options: >-
          --health-cmd="mysqladmin ping --silent"
          --health-interval=10s
          --health-timeout=5s
          --health-retries=5

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up PHP
        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
        with:
          php-version: 8.3
          extensions: mbstring, gd, pdo, pdo_mysql, curl, dom, zip, xml, json, bcmath, intl, opcache
          coverage: none

      - name: Install Composer dependencies
        run: composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist

      - name: Start Drupal site (Dockerized Apache)
        run: |
          docker run -d --name drupal \
            --link $:mysql \
            -e MYSQL_HOST=mysql \
            -e MYSQL_DATABASE=drupal \
            -e MYSQL_USER=drupal \
            -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=drupal \
            -p 8080:80 \
            -v $:/var/www/html \
            drupal:11-apache
          sleep 60 # Give Drupal time to initialize

      - name: Site Install via Drush
        run: |
          composer require drush/drush --dev
          ./vendor/bin/drush si standard \
            --db-url=mysql://drupal:drupal@127.0.0.1:3306/drupal \
            --account-name=admin --account-pass=admin --yes

      - name: Check Drupal site is up
        run: curl --fail http://localhost:8080/

      - name: Set up Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Install Playwright
        run: |
          cd tests/playwright
          npm ci
          npx playwright install --with-deps

      - name: Run Playwright tests
        run: |
          cd tests/playwright
          npx playwright test test1.spec.ts
          npx playwright test test2.spec.ts
          npx playwright test test3.spec.ts

How it works:

  1. Triggers when master branch is updated.
  2. Spins up MySQL as a service.
  3. Installs PHP/Composer/Drush and sets up Drupal 11.
  4. Runs Drupal site using Docker (official Drupal 11 image).
  5. Performs Drupal site install with Drush.
  6. Checks the site is responding at http://localhost:8080/.
  7. Installs Node.js & Playwright.
  8. Runs 3 Playwright tests from tests/playwright.

What you need to provide:

  • Place your Playwright tests in tests/playwright/ (e.g., test1.spec.ts, test2.spec.ts, test3.spec.ts).
  • Your repo should have a valid composer.json and package.json in the Playwright directory.
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