Test e-commerce checkout flows without maintaining Playwright

Test e-commerce checkout flows without maintaining Playwright Your checkout is broken. You don't know it. A customer tried to buy at 2 AM on a Friday and hit a payment form bug. By Monday, you've lost $4k in revenue. This happens because e-commerce teams either skip checkout testing (too fragile, too slow to maintain) or spend 20+ hours a week babysitting Playwright test infrastructure. There's a third way. Instead of writing test code, record a video of the actual checkout flow. Click through it once manually or via Claude. Get a narrated MP4. Run it again weekly to catch regressions. No infrastructure to maintain. No Selenium flakiness. Why Playwright breaks down for checkout testing Checkout is uniquely hard to automate: State changes constantly — New payment provider, coupon logic, shipping calculation. Every change breaks your tests. Cross-domain flows — Redirects to Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay. Playwright (and Selenium) struggle with multi-domain sequences. Rate limits and CAPTCHA