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

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('link', { name: 'More' }).click()
  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/more/)
})

npx playwright test
npx playwright show-report

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