Playwright strategy for privacy-critical flows

Consent and privacy request flows have legal implications, so regressions are more than UI bugs. We needed confidence across identity, locale, and consent state combinations.

A broad but shallow test suite was not enough. We focused on a smaller set of high-signal journeys that map directly to production risk.

We grouped tests around user intents: granting consent, revoking consent, completing request submission, and validating status updates under different auth conditions.

The strategy reduced late-stage surprises and made release conversations clearer: product, QA, and engineering aligned around the same critical paths and failure signals.