The Playwright is aligned with the architecture of the modern browsers and runs tests out-of-process, and it is free of the typical in-process test runner limitations of Cypress. Playwright communicates all requests between client and server through a single WebSocket connection which is comparatively better than the Selenium HTTP Connection protocol for automation.
The Playwright is an automation tool from Microsoft for reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps. The Playwright is a perfect rival against Selenium.
The top two contributors of Playwright are the same ones who created the Puppeteer; Puppeteer is an open-source node-js-based framework built by Google. It is written in TypeScript which is a superset of JavaScript.
Like any other automation, tool Playwright needs prerequisites and requirements before it can be run in an environment.
The browser binaries work across three platforms Windows, macOS, and Linux.
The newest addition to Automation Framework, Playwright from Microsoft, has arrived as a solid competitor to Cypress. The Playwright did initial release in 2020; it has come up with many features and overcome almost all tradeoffs that Cypress had. Let’s compare Playwright and Cypress to understand when to use what.
In this article, let's discuss how to read test data from JSON files of different formats.
Let's start with a simple example.
To refresh a page in Playwright, we can use the page.reload() method, which will reload the current page. This method reloads the current page in the same way as if the user had triggered a browser refresh.
await page.reload();
await page.reload(options);Arguments
In Playwright, you can verify the current page URL using the toHaveURL method of the PageAssertions Interface.
The Playwright Test framework provides a range of timeouts. These include the Test Timeout, Expect Timeout, Global Timeout, and several low-level timeouts such as actions, navigation, fixtures, and before and after all timeout.
In this article, we will only discuss a few essential aspects of test timeout.