What's new in Playwright v1.50.0?
There are quite a few new features in the latest release of Playwright 1.50.0. Shivam Bharadwaj explains them in more detail.
Why you shouldn't run tests sequentially
Writing tests that rely on execution order may lead to test flakiness. Nočnica Mellifera explores better alternatives like fixtures, hooks, and test steps.
Also, Lana Begunova advises to Stop Running High-Risk E2E Tests in Every Browser.
Recently, a new Playwright Test runner has been released. Alister Scott shows how it compares to the other popular JavaScript test runner — Jest.
And if you want to see it in practice, Andrii Baidachenko published a handy guide to implementing Page Object Model with Playwright.
If you're curious to see how Playwright and Selenium compare in terms of speed and implementation, watch Victor Vrinceanu explaining all the differences and showing code examples.
Testing GraphQL with Playwright
Playwright has recently announced a new API testing feature. While it's meant to aid UI test automation with some handy backend calls, it can also be used for API testing, as Katarzyna Kmiotek demonstrates.
Playwright Tutorial for Beginners
If you'd like to learn test automation in Playwright from scratch, here's a great 10-part tutorial by Oluwasegun Kayode. You can find all links under the article.
Diogo Nunes put together a list of handy code snippets that can help you test easier with Playwright.
Additionally, Swikriti Tripathi wrote about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using Playwright.
Being in the spotlight inevitably bring comparisons. Is Cypress better than Playwright? Here's an interesting discussion on Reddit about the two most popular JavaScript testing tools.
Additionally, Hugh McCamphill gives Four reasons why WebdriverIO is better than Cypress.
Playwright is a great open-source tool for test automation on web and Angie Jones did a great effort explaining its features with code examples.
Is Playwright — the new Microsoft's open-source JavaScript library for testing multiple web browsers — about to replace Puppeteer? Alister Scott first shows how to use the tool and then gives a fair review.
