
I decided to write tests for - I often use it for different tests projects. Playwright test runner has implemented fixtures for each of this abstractions and it automatically manages their creation, so you don’t really need to think a lot about it and can just use page fixture in your tests.Īnd one of my favourite features - Playwright manages all waits, so you don’t need to care about it at all, just configure maximum timeout value and forget about pain. Page - represents page and responsible for all actions performed on web pages. You can think of it as of a browser tab opened in incognito mode Playwright has three levels of abstraction when comes to managing browsers and parallelisation:īrowser - represents browser and can be shared between tests to minimise resources Ĭontext - represents isolated context for single test run. Playwright supports tests parallelisation out of the box, so you don’t need to spend your time developing complex testing framework, and can concentrate on tests.
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Unlike Playwright itself, test runner doesn’t come with bundled browsers, so you have to install them separately.Īnd that’s pretty much it. To install all browsers (Playwright supports 3 browsers - Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) for test runner. This will install Playwright as dev dependency.Īfter that we can install Playwright test runner $ npm install -D $ npx playwright install Once it’s done we can install Playwright with npm install -D playwright. It will guide you through a simple wizard to set up a project. Then create a folder for your project and run $ npm init If you don’t have it on your computer, please visit official website and follow installation steps. Installationįirst of all, you need to install `node.js`. That’s impressive! Especially if you compare this with pure Selenium, where you can spend hours just installing everything and writing wrappers for driver, page factories, etc. I’ve never touched this tool before and I spent just one hour to set up everything from scratch (the only thing I had installed was node.js) and create first working test and all pages implementation.

Four weeks later I finally found a bit of a time to play with it. A month ago Playwright had a big release and they introduces their own test runner.
