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Playwright

Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps.

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Overview

Playwright is an open-source automation library for browser testing and web scraping, developed by Microsoft. It enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps by providing a single API to automate across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

✨ Key Features

  • Cross-browser automation (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)
  • Auto-waits for elements
  • Network interception and mocking
  • Mobile emulation
  • Parallel test execution
  • Test generator (Codegen)
  • Trace Viewer for debugging

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • True cross-browser support with a single API
  • Superior architecture for handling modern web apps
  • Powerful tooling like Codegen and Trace Viewer

Unique Value: Provides a powerful and developer-friendly open-source solution for building fast, capable, and reliable end-to-end tests for modern web applications.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

End-to-end testing of modern web applications Automated UI testing Web scraping and data extraction API testing

✅ Best For

  • Testing single-page applications (SPAs) and other dynamic web apps.
  • Creating reliable tests that are less prone to flakiness due to auto-waiting.

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Testing native mobile applications
  • Users who prefer a language other than JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, or .NET

🏆 Alternatives

Cypress Selenium

Offers broader cross-browser support and a more robust architecture compared to Cypress, and a more modern developer experience than Selenium.

💻 Platforms

Web API

✅ Offline Mode Available

🔌 Integrations

Jest Mocha Jasmine GitHub Actions CircleCI Jenkins Docker

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

Free tier: Fully open-source and free to use.

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