Playwright Automation Testing from Scratch with Framework
What is a playwright?
Playwright is a powerful open-source, end-to-end testing framework created by Microsoft. It’s designed to enable reliable automation for modern web applications. It allows developers to build robust and efficient automation tests from scratch using JavaScript, within a well-structured framework.
Additionally, Playwright facilitates the automation of various browsers, including Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. This means it can perform actions just like a real user, such as clicking, typing, uploading files, and navigating through web pages.
Why Playwright?
1. Reliable End-to-End Testing
Playwright’s Auto-walt capability ensures reliable and stable end-to-end testing for modern web applications, even in the face of dynamic and complex user interactions.
2. Cross-Browser Compatibility
Playwright supports all major browsers. Including Chromium-based (Chrome and Edge), Firefox, Safari (WebKit), and Opera, allowing you to test your web applications across a wide range of browsers and platforms.
3. Multiplatform Support 0r Cross-platform
Playwright works seamlessly on Windows, mac05, and Linux, and also supports native mobile emulation for Google Chrome on Android and Safari on 105, enabling comprehensive testing across different devices and operating systems..
4. Multilingual Flexibility or Supports multiple languages
Playwright provides language bindings for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, and C# (NET), allowing you to choose the programming language that best fits your team’s preferences and expertise.
Playwright's Learning objectives
- Tracing and Debugging : Leverage Playwright’s built-in tracing and debugging capabilities, including automatic screenshots, test video recording, and comprehensive logging, to simplify the process of identifying and resolving issues in your test suite.
- Network Interception : Utilize Playwright’s API testing libraries to intercept and validate network calls within your web application, enabling you to test edge case scenarios and ensure the resilience of your application’s network Interactions
- Browser Context Management : Explore Playwright’s browser context feature, which allows you to save and transfer browser state across your test suite, improving test efficiency and reducing the overhead of setting up the same browser state for each test case
- Codegen Tool : Discover Playwright’s codegen tool, which can generate test code by recording your actions, saving you time and effort In creating initial test cases and providing a starting point for further customization.
- Auto-wait mechanism: Automatically waits for elements to be ready before performing actions, reducing flaky tests.
- Headless & headed mode: Can run without UI (faster) or with UI (debugging).
- Rich debugging tools : Trace viewer, screenshots, videos of test runs.
Playwright Essentials: A Step-by-Step Journey into Test Automation
Part 01: Master Playwright Testing – Framework from Scratch Guide
Part 02: How to install Playwright
Part 03: Basic Playwright Test Structure
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