Playwright is an automation library for cross-browser end-to-end testing by @Microsoft. Available in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java and .NET.
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With all the MCP hype, we went ahead and built an MCP server for Playwright. Ours is snapshot-based, which makes it faster and more reliable! You can opt into the visual mode too. Have fun! 🚀 #Playwright #MCP
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Playwright MCP: A way for AI agents to control browsers without screenshots or vision models.
See a live demo of an AI agent navigating GitHub and starring a repo!
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#PlaywrightMCP #AI #DevTools
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🚀 Playwright Agents are here! (Playwright v1.56)
🤖 Planner → generates test plans
🛠️ Generator → generates runnable tests
🩹 Healer → debugs & fixes failing tests
Try it out:
npx playwright init-agents --loop=vscode/claude/opencode
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Playwright 1.32 is out!
📣 Introducing UI Mode (preview)
UI Mode = Watch mode + Time-travel debugging
Watch the overview: piped.video/jF0yA-JLQW0
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Use Playwright MCP with GitHub Copilot to generate real Playwright tests using natural language.
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Playwright 1.40 is out!
🤖 Test Generator Updates
👀 You can now Generate Assertions 🎉
Watch the release video to see it in action:
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Playwright 1.39 is out!
📦 Box Test Steps
🛠️ Custom Matchers
⛙ Merge Test Fixtures and Assertions
Watch the release video: piped.video/watch?v=KqVuRAlO…
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Playwright v1.44 is out!
👁️ VS Code Extension UI updates
✅ Accessibility assertions
❌ Run last failed tests via CLI
🖼 Locator handler with new options
🍪 Clear cookies options
Watch the overview:
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Playwright 1.38 is out!
🌈 UI Mode Update
📚 Form-filling Update
🤿 Miscellaneous
Watch the release video: piped.video/YGJTeXaZDTM
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What's new in Playwright v1.52 & v1.53
🤖 Fix with AI
🖼️ describe() a locator
➕ Title in HTML Report
👁️ toContainClass
📷 Aria Snapshots supports children and url
▶️ Test runner updates
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Playwright 1.35 is out!
🌈 Live Traces in VSCode
🏷️ Network Annotations
🖍️ Mask color
📺 UI Mode in a tab
🧹 npx playwright uninstall
Watch the overview: piped.video/pJiirfyJwcA
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Playwright 1.48 is out!
🤖 WebSocket Routing
👁️ UI Mode Network Tab Improvements
Watch the release video:
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🚀 Playwright 1.51 is here! Smarter debugging, enhanced reports & more!
✅ AI-friendly Copy Prompt for debugging
🪪 Git info in HTML reports
🔥 Firebase auth support (IndexedDB)
👁 Match only visible locators
🪜 Test step updates
📷 ARIA snapshot updates
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Playwright v1.19 is out!
⭐️ new VSCode extension
☁️ soft assertions
📝 custom expect messages
🐎 parallel mode for the whole file
📦 “has” locator option
Watch our overview:
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Playwright v1.46 is out!
🪪 Client Certificates
✅ New --only-changed CLI option
👁️ UI mode / Trace Viewer Updates
Watch the overview: piped.video/tQo7w-QQBsI
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Playwright v1.45 is out!
🕓 Clock API
🗂️ SetInputFiles
⌨️ ControlOrMeta+S
Watch the overview:
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Playwright v1.22 is out!
🎯 Selectors Update
🏞 Web-First Screenshot Assertion
🎁 Component Tests (preview)
🐍 PyTest Codegen
☕️ Playwright for Java support for Arm64
Watch our overview: piped.video/keV2CIgtBlg
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Playwright v1.14 is out!
⚡️ New "Strict" mode
📍 Locators API
🧩 Experimental @reactjs and @vuejs selector engines
✨ New "nth" & "visible" selector engines
✅ Web-First Assertions
⛓ describe.serial
🐾 Steps API
🌎 Web server support
Watch our overview: piped.video/LczBDR0gOhk
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Playwright Test VSCode extension is now in public beta!
With Playwright Test VSCode (@code) extension you can see tests, run tests, debug tests, get output of tests – all in different browsers without using terminal.
marketplace.visualstudio.com…
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Playwright 1.42 is out!
🏷️ New Tags and Annotations
📷 Screenshot Styling
⚠️ Locator Handler
Watch the release video: piped.video/watch?v=KjSaIQLl…
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Playwright 1.37 is out!
🤖 Merge HTML reports across shards
🌈 UI Mode updates
📚 Debian 12 Bookworm support
Watch the overview: piped.video/cEd4SH_Xf5U
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Playwright v1.26 & v1.27 is out!
📍 New Locators API inspired by Testing Library
✅ Assertions Update
🧊 Miscellaneous
Watch the overview featuring @kentcdodds: piped.video/b84eqab3kwc
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Playwright 1.33 & 1.34 is out!
🌈 UI Mode Update
⏹️ Project Teardown
📍 New Locators API
🧊 Miscellaneous
Watch the overview: piped.video/watch?v=JeFD6rqD…
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Playwright 1.29 is out!
💻 Simpler backend mocking
📝 Working with lists
🌈 Universal retrying assertion
🧊 Miscellaneous
Watch the overview: piped.video/VbVlz61VtNo
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Playwright v1.21 is out!
🐎 Universal Retrying Assertion
📕 Text caret auto-hiding
📸 New “scale” screenshot option
🛝 Image Diff slider
📣 Announcements
Watch our overview: piped.video/watch?v=45HZdbmg…
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Playwright v1.25 is out!
🧩 VSCode Extension Update
🏃 Test Runner Update
#️⃣ Playwright for .NET Update
📣 Announcements
Watch the overview: piped.video/NFLHA57a-so
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Playwright 1.49 is out!
📸 Snapshot testing
🧟 Chromium headless changes
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Playwright v1.23 is out!
⏯ Network Replay
🚀 Advanced Routing
🎁 Component Tests Update
✅ New Web-First Assertions
💻 Ubuntu 22.04 support
🧊 More…
Watch the overview:
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Yay!
Playwright now has new APIs inspired by Testing Library. 💯
ALT Screenshot of the Playwright releases page with the following text: Locators With these new APIs, inspired by Testing Library, writing locators is a joy: * page.getByText(text, options) to locate by text content. * page.getByRole(role, options) to locate by ARIA role, ARIA attributes and accessible name. * page.getByLabel(label, options) to locate a form control by associated label's text. * page.getByPlaceholder(placeholder, options) to locate an input by placeholder. * page.getByAltText(altText, options) to locate an element, usually image, by its text alternative. * page.getByTitle(title, options) to locate an element by its title. await page.getByLabel('User Name').fill('John'); await page.getByLabel('Password').fill('secret-password'); await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Sign in' }).click(); await expect(page.getByText('Welcome, John!')).toBeVisible();
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Playwright 1.28 is out!
🧩 VSCode Extension Update
🦁 Playwright Inspector Update
👀 Snapshot Path Template
🎁 New locator & test runner APIs
📣 Announcements
Watch the overview: piped.video/tVSq-0n-TY4
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Playwright v1.20 is out!
🎇 Disable CSS animations
🎭 Mask elements
🔎 Forgiving matching
🐎 Fully-parallel tests mode
📣 Announcements
Watch our overview:
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Playwright v1.18 is out!
🤙 Improved TypeScript support
📍 Locator Improvements
✅ Testing API enhancements
🏎 `npm init playwright`
Read more in the release notes: github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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Playwright 1.31 is out!
⚓️ Project Dependencies
🍿 Better Global Setup Demo
🎯 Viewport Assertion
🌈 Miscellaneous
Watch the overview: piped.video/PI50YAPTAs4
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Playwright v1.24 is out!
🐂 Debian 11
🌍 Multiple Web Servers
🕵️ Anonymous Describe
🧩 Component Tests Update
🐎 Ambassadors Program
Watch the overview:
piped.video/9F05o1shxcY
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Playwright v1.15 is out!
🚀 Full-Parallel mode
🥑 API testing (experimental)
🛠 CLI Goodies
🎁 New APIs
Watch our overview: piped.video/watch?v=6RwzsDeE…
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2025 is around the corner! We wanted to thank you for being with us and helping Playwright grow. Post your wishes here, and who knows maybe they come true!
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📣 Playwright for .NET v1.12 is now stable!
With this release, Playwright is now available in 4 languages:
✅ TypeScript / JavaScript
✅ Python
✅ Java
✅ .NET
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Playwright Testing Agents: under the hood. Let's dive in and see how it all works
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Yay!
I’m a big Cypress fan, so I’m shocked to say this: I just switched to @playwrightweb.
Here are 16 reasons I switched:
1. WAY Faster. ~2X faster with 1 core. ~6x faster with multiple cores (uses multiple workers)
2. Tests multiple browsers in parallel.
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Comparison:👇
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Playwright v1.16 is out!
🥑 API testing (out of experiment!)
📇 HTML Reporter
🎁 locator.waitFor
Watch our overview: piped.video/OQKwFDmY64g
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Did you know that Playwright generates a nice interactive HTML report?
And if you click on a test, you can see the complete execution trace!
Check it out yourself! 👉 demo.playwright.dev/reports/…
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⭐️ New Video — What's new in Playwright v1.18
In this video:
📍New Locators API
✅ Web-First Assertions Update
🥑 API Testing Update
🌈 Tracing Update
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✨ Playwright for Java v1.9alpha is live!✨
🎁 idiomatic Java API
📚 complete Java documentation
🕵️♂️ latest features including Playwright Inspector
playwright.dev/java
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Playwright's new ARIA Snapshot testing makes it easier to test structure and content of your site. In this video, Simon demonstrates it and gives you an overview of how to use it. Check it out and happy testing!
#playwright #testing
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Playwright v1.13 is out!
⛺️ baseURL fixture to support relative paths in tests
⚡️ reporter API (already used to create an Allure Playwright reporter)
🖖 page.dragAndDrop()
🔎 enhanced HAR
🧟♂️ enhanced trace viewer
read more: github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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Playwright v1.12 is out!
⚡️ [new] Playwright Test: the best test runner for e2e-tests
🧟♂️ [new] Playwright Trace & TraceViewer: postmortem debugging for web automations
💫 Playwright for .NET goes stable
Learn more: github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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Check out this collection of testing examples: github.com/MarcusFelling/Dem…
Missing a scenario you'd like to see tested? Let us know!
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⭐️ New Video — Playwright: Four Futuristic Features
In this talk:
🏛 Playwright unique architecture
🛠 How Playwright enables affordable CI
Live demos:
🕵️♀️ Inspector
🖼 CodeGen
🧟 Tracing
Thanks to @Applitools for hosting us!
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Playwright supports horizontal and vertical scaling out of the box:🧑🎓
- horizontal: add more machines
- vertical: add more power (CPU, RAM)
playwright.dev/docs/test-par…
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🎭 Playwright 1.5 is now available!
🎬 Review headless runs with video screencasts [stable]
✨ Try the new Playwright test runner [in preview]
✍️ Record actions and generate code for JavaScript and Python ⬇️
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Playwright v1.17 Release Candidate is out!
🤙 Ubuntu arm64 support
📍 Frame Locators
🗿 HTML Report updates
🌈 Trace Viewer @ trace.playwright.dev
Try it out:
👉 npm i @playwright/test@1.17.0-rc1
Let us know what you think!
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Playwright v1.9 is out!
🔥 new Playwright Inspector!
🐍 Playwright for Python 1.9.0 goes stable
❌ dialog auto-dismiss
⚒ new text selectors
Read more: github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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Playwright v1.11 is out!
🎥 New API's to manage screen recording
🖥 Screen size emulation
💫 Chrome DevTools protocol support across languages
Read more: github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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Our community is now on Discord – join us and connect with other members at aka.ms/playwright/discord #Discord #community
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Looking at Staging your Web App? You need a Playwright!
aka.ms/why-playwright
Illustrations credit: @nitya
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Join us for an exclusive Q&A with the Playwright team! Gain insights on this powerful testing tool straight from the experts.
25 May, 2023 | 6:30 PM PST (In-person and online)
reactor.microsoft.com/en-us/…
#Playwright #SoftwareTesting #DeveloperCommunity #TechEvent #Testing
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Playwright 1.8 is now available!
⬇️ Select elements based on layout with :right-of, :left-of, :above and :below
✅ New convenience APIs for element assertions
🐍 New docs website for Python bindings
📦 CLI is now part of the main package
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We'll be sharing some exciting things we have in the works that'd we would love your feedback on!
MVPs - I'll be giving a talk at the Summit tomorrow on testing modern web apps with @playwrightweb @ 4pm PST. You don't want to miss it! #mvpbuzz #mvpsummit #microsoft #azure
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Are you running tests against a local development server? (e.g. React + webpack-dev-server)
Playwright Test supports `webServer` option that will launch it for you and wait until its fully up-and-running.
Read more: playwright.dev/docs/test-adv…
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⭐️ New Video — Introducing Playwright Test Runner
In this video:
🐣 Getting Started
🏛 Fundamentals
🛠 Configuration
Live demos:
🕵️♀️ Inspector
🖼 CodeGen
🧟 Tracing
piped.video/watch?v=JjhY2aFB…
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Do you want to have JavaScript test coverage for your end-to-end tests?
Check out this demo repository with instructions
on how to wire Istanbul (nyc) to Playwright Test runner:
github.com/mxschmitt/playwri…
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📣 We're hiring! Join us in shaping the future of testing!
careers.microsoft.com/us/en/…
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All the talks we've ever given on Playwright:
👉 playwright.dev/blog/
What's your favorite? What else should we cover?
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Is your company using @ProtractorTest for testing #Angular projects?
Playwright now has an official guide to help you with the migration to bring your team up to speed!🧑⚕️
playwright.dev/docs/protract…
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Start your next project with `npm init playwright` to bootstrap your initial Playwright Test configuration, example tests and GitHub Actions workflow!
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Playwright 1.6 is out!
🖖 Tap your screen
⬇️ Export network traffic as HAR
🧐 Inspect WebSocket frames
🤹♀️ Set a custom proxy for every browser context
And much more! Release notes: github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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Did you know that Playwright for #Python has a Pytest (@pytestdotorg) integration? 🐍
It supports tracing, videos, screenshots on failures, context isolation per test and much more!
👉 playwright.dev/python/docs/t…
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Using Selenium in Java? Considering Playwright for Java? This could be fun!
Longtime automation guru, @AutomationPanda, tried Playwright (Microsoft's new open source testing tool) and was blown away!
He can't stop talking about how amazing it is, soooo we have to put it to the test (is this a pun?)
🥊 Selenium Vs Playwright. Let's let the code speak!
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🤔 Ever wondered why some web automation tools struggle with iframes and other's don't?
💡 One of the reasons is "Site Isolation" – powerful technology that makes modern browsers secure.
👉 Learn all about Site Isolation and how Playwright handles it:
gist.github.com/pavelfeldman…
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🎯Get hands-on at #MSBuild with Automated Cloud Application Testing using #Playwright & Azure tools! It's an interactive journey not to miss! Arrive 5 mins early to secure your spot. 👩💻
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#AllureFramework integration with Playwright Test runner in 2 steps:
1️⃣ npm i -D @playwright/test allure-playwright
2️⃣ npx playwright test --reporter=line,allure-playwright
Read more: npmjs.com/package/allure-pla…
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💭 Do you deploy your PRs to @vercel, @Netlify, @AzureStaticApps or @heroku?
GitHub Actions make it easy to start a workflow once your deployment is ready, so you can run your end-to-end Playwright tests against the staging deployment!
Learn more: playwright.dev/docs/ci#githu…
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Join us tonight for an in-person and online event from the @MSFTReactor in Redmond for an exclusive Q&A with the Playwright team: reactor.microsoft.com/en-us/…
ALT Let's talk Playwright with the Playwright team.
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A few weeks ago we presented Playwright at the @applitools Webinar.
🎥 video: piped.video/watch?v=_Jla6Dyu…
📚 slides: docs.google.com/presentation…
We covered a lot, so here's a table of contents: 👇
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🍿 New Video: Debugging Timeouts
Using Playwright Test together with Playwright Inspector to debug a test that times out
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🍿 New Video: Fun with Fixtures!
Join @JoelEinbinder to learn all about "fixtures" in Playwright Test – a slick and powerful alternative to beforeEach / afterEach hooks 👇
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v1.14 release notes: github.com/microsoft/playwri…
v1.14 presentation slides: docs.google.com/presentation…
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🚀New to #Playwright or just catching up? Check out our on-demand session on end-to-end testing with Playwright for all things new and exciting, including the new UI mode!
build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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🔥 Authentication re-use demo: piped.video/_Jla6DyuEu4?t=2960
How to re-login automatically with Playwright
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☁️Dive into a thoughtful discussion on Automated Cloud Application Testing using #MicrosoftAzure and #Playwright. Join us in the Digital Q&A session at #MSBuild.
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<3 These samples are a good start: github.com/MarcusFelling/dem…
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👀 WebDriver interop: piped.video/_Jla6DyuEu4?t=2393
Re-using WebDriver infrastructure for Playwright
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⁉️ Live Q&A: piped.video/_Jla6DyuEu4?t=3342
@pavel_feldman_ answers 100+ questions from the audience
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🔍Discover the power of test automation with #Playwright at #MSBuild! Learn how to integrate Playwright tests directly into your CI/CD flow.
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💡Your queries on Application Reliability with Azure Load Testing & Chaos Studio, answered! In-Person Q&A session awaits you at #MSBuild. Be there! build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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Good ways to get help:
- ask on our slack channel: aka.ms/playwright-slack
- file an issue with a question to github.com/microsoft/playwri…
Either way, make sure to include enough details!
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Nothing for .NET at the moment; try asking at our slack channel at aka.ms/playwright/slack
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Learn more in the release notes, and tell us what you think!
github.com/microsoft/playwri…
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📢Playwright enthusiasts, unite! Your chance to ask us Anything about #Playwright is here. Join the Digital Q&A session to maximize your experience with this powerful testing framework. 🕔5:15 PM - 6:00 PM PDT build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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⚙️Automate, innovate & elevate your testing process with Playwright. Catch our hands-on demo at #MSBuild to streamline CI/CD with test automation. build.microsoft.com/en-US/se…
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