10 Free Websites to Practice Test Automation

How to pick a code testing website

A good code testing website for automation practice is stable (it doesn't change every week), public (no account or payment), and built to be tested, with realistic problems such as dynamic content, frames, logins and APIs. Every site below meets those rules. Pick by what you want to practise: single UI problems, full user flows, or APIs.

UI practice sites

1. the-internet

the-internet.herokuapp.com has dozens of small pages, each with one classic automation problem: checkboxes, dropdowns, iframes, JavaScript alerts, file upload, hovers, dynamic loading and basic auth. It's the best place to practise one technique at a time.

2. UI Testing Playground

uitestingplayground.com is built around the traps that cause flaky tests: dynamic IDs, delayed elements, hidden layers, buttons that move, and loading delays. Good for seeing how auto-waiting handles timing.

3. Playwright TodoMVC demo

demo.playwright.dev/todomvc is the to-do app the Playwright team uses in its own examples. Small, fast and predictable, so it's ideal for your first tests.

4. DemoQA

demoqa.com covers forms, widgets, drag and drop, tables and a small bookstore app. It shows ads, so it's also good practice for dealing with overlays.

Demo shops and full apps

5. SauceDemo

saucedemo.com is a small store with a full login-to-checkout flow. Its test users behave differently: standard_user works normally, locked_out_user is blocked, and problem_user and performance_glitch_user have deliberate bugs and delays. Elements carry data-test attributes, the way real teams make apps testable.

6. Automation Exercise

automationexercise.com is a larger e-commerce site with sign-up, cart, checkout and contact forms. It publishes a list of test cases to automate and a set of practice APIs, so you can test the UI and the API of the same app.

7. ParaBank

parabank.parasoft.com is a demo bank from Parasoft with registration, accounts, transfers and bill pay. It's closer to the multi-step business flows found in finance jobs.

API practice sites

8. Restful-Booker

restful-booker.herokuapp.com is a hotel booking API made for testing practice. It has token auth, create, read, update and delete, and it resets regularly. The best free API for portfolio projects.

9. JSONPlaceholder

jsonplaceholder.typicode.com is a fake REST API with posts, comments and users. Reads return real data; writes are faked and not saved. Perfect for your first API assertions.

10. Automation Exercise API list

The Automation Exercise API list documents endpoints for products, brands, search and user accounts, with expected responses, so you can write API tests for the same shop you automated in the UI.

Practice websites compared

A Playwright starter test for UI and API

Install Playwright with npm init playwright@latest, then drop this file into tests/:

const { test, expect } = require('@playwright/test');

test('the-internet: dynamic loading', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/dynamic_loading/1');
  await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Start' }).click();
  // No sleep: the assertion retries until the text appears.
  // This page loads for ~5s, longer than the 5s default, so raise the timeout.
  await expect(page.getByText('Hello World!')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
});

test('SauceDemo: locked-out user sees an error', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('https://www.saucedemo.com/');
  await page.getByPlaceholder('Username').fill('locked_out_user');
  await page.getByPlaceholder('Password').fill('secret_sauce');
  await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Login' }).click();
  await expect(page.locator('[data-test="error"]')).toContainText('locked out');
});

test('JSONPlaceholder: read a post', async ({ request }) => {
  const res = await request.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1');
  await expect(res).toBeOK();
  expect(await res.json()).toMatchObject({ id: 1, userId: 1 });
});

Run npx playwright test --ui to watch each step and inspect the page. For the API side in depth, see the Playwright API testing guide.

A practice route that builds real skill

1. the-internet: one test per page until locators, waits, frames and alerts feel routine.
2. SauceDemo: automate the full checkout, then refactor it into page objects.
3. Restful-Booker: CRUD and auth tests with the request fixture.
4. Automation Exercise: combine both, creating data through the API and checking it in the UI.
5. CI: run the whole thing in GitHub Actions. Now it's a portfolio, not just practice (portfolio ideas).

Practice etiquette

These sites are free because their maintainers keep them running. Don't load-test them, keep loops small, run your suite on demand rather than every few minutes, and never put real personal data or passwords into them.

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