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Playwright Has a Free Browser Testing Framework — Test Any Browser with One API
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Playwright Has a Free Browser Testing Framework — Test Any Browser with One API

via Dev.to WebdevAlex Spinov3h ago

A QA team maintained separate test suites for Chrome (Puppeteer), Firefox (Selenium), and Safari (Appium). Three frameworks, three APIs, triple the maintenance. Playwright by Microsoft tests Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a single API. Auto-wait, trace viewer, codegen - testing as it should be. What Playwright Offers for Free All Browsers - Chromium, Firefox, WebKit from one API Auto-Wait - No more sleep() or waitFor hacks Codegen - Record actions, generate test code Trace Viewer - Debug failed tests with screenshots, DOM snapshots, network Parallel - Run tests in parallel across browsers API Testing - Test REST APIs without a browser Visual Comparisons - Screenshot assertions Mobile Emulation - Test mobile viewports Quick Start npm init playwright@latest import { test , expect } from ' @playwright/test ' test ( ' homepage has title ' , async ({ page }) => { await page . goto ( ' https://example.com ' ) await expect ( page ). toHaveTitle ( /Example/ ) await page . getByRole ( ' lin

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