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.

Table of Contents

1. Read Single Object
2. Read Array of Objects
3. Read Array of Objects with Key
4. Video Tutorial

Read Single Object

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.

Table of Contents

1. Syntax
2. Example
3. Video Tutorial

Syntax

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.