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Most testing tutorials ignore e-learning completely. Here's how to build a Playwright test suite that validates your SCORM packages actually work across LMS platforms. Why E-Learning Testing Is Different If you've ever published a SCORM package to an LMS and watched it silently fail — no completion recorded, quiz scores vanishing, navigation broken — you know the pain. E-learning content doesn't behave like a typical web app. It runs inside an LMS-provided iframe, communicates through a JavaScript API (the SCORM Runtime), and its behavior changes depending on which LMS hosts it. Manual QA across even 3-4 LMS platforms is slow and error-prone. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through setting up Playwright to automate SCORM package testing — from basic content loading to verifying API calls and completion status. Prerequisites Before we start, make sure you have: Node.js 18+ installed Playwright ( npm init playwright@latest ) A SCORM 1.2 or 2004 package (a .zip file containing your e-learning content) A local LMS for testing — we'll use SCORM Cloud (free tier) or a simple SCORM API shim Step 1: Set Up a Local SCORM Runtime Shim Testing SCORM content requires an API that mimics what an LMS provides. Rather than spinning up a full Moodle instance, we'll create a lightweight shim. Create a file called scorm-api-shim.js : // scorm-api-shim.js // Mimics the SCORM 1.2 Runtime API that an LMS would expose window . API = { _data : {}, _initialized : false , _calls : [], LMSInitialize : function ( param ) { this . _initialized = true ; this . _calls . push ({ method : ' LMSInitialize ' , param , timestamp : Date . now () }); console . log ( ' [SCORM] LMSInitialize called ' ); return " true " ; }, LMSGetValue : function ( key ) { this . _calls . push ({ method : ' LMSGetValue ' , key , timestamp : Date . now () }); return this . _data [ key ] || "" ; }, LMSSetValue : function ( key , value ) { this . _data [ key ] = value ; this . _calls . push ({ method : ' LMSSetValue ' , key