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What is Playwright?

Browser contexts. Playwright creates a browser context for each test. Browser context is equivalent to a brand new browser profile. This delivers full test isolation with zero overhead. Creating a new browser context only takes a handful of milliseconds.

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Incentivized
david leoView profile
Developer in Information Technology at SAP (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used it in various use cases for validating our API and UI. Login UI test case. Various features in the API are being tested using Playwright. Also, AI chatbots are tested using Playwright.

Pros

  • API
  • UI
  • Performance

Cons

  • UI
  • API
  • Performance

Return on Investment

  • Usable
  • customisable
  • extendable

Usability

Other Software Used

AI/ML API, Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued, ASAP Rent

Why we chose Playwright for our testing needs

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Playwright to automate our LMS's critical path. It is a complex software with many possible edge cases, it takes 2 testers 3 full days to fully smoke the app (not regression). With Playwright we automated the critical path, we integrated it into our CI/CD, and now it's constantly running and detecting errors and bugs before they even reach to QA.

Pros

  • automation
  • integrations
  • support
  • community
  • features
  • easy to use
  • documentation

Cons

  • bigger adoption
  • mobile testing

Return on Investment

  • Reduce of cost of manual testers
  • Reduce of released bugs
  • Reduce of costs of developer time
  • Increase QA Coverage

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Selenium, Cypress.io and Appium

Other Software Used

Datadog, Postman, WorkRamp