A side effect we noticed after the migration to .Net 6 was that the test task in Azure DevOps took a lot longer than before. The test execution itself did not change much, but the dotnet test task had much more overhead than vstest. As an example, the test task took 4m 48s, while the …
Last week I was in Oslo to attend the NDC conference. I cannot really believe that this was already the 10th NDC Oslo I attended. With 2’600 attendees it was the biggest NDC event ever, but at least for me not the best. Practical Clean Architecture workshop with Jason Taylor I started my NDC …
If you ever run into a problem with an iPhone and need to create a video of your screen, you can do that directly with the methods provided by iOS (back to iOS 13). First, open the Settings application and go the Control Centre. There you find an option for Screen Recording that you can …
After my series of 13 posts about Playwright spanning C# and Python, it is time to answer the two question I got asked a lot in the past few weeks: Is Playwright ready for production? Yes Should we switch to Playwright? It depends. The second one is a boring answer, but if you want to …
After last week’s success with BrowserStack, I tried to run Playwright on Selenium Grid. The user experience for this use case is at the opposite end of the scale. The documentation is not much help and Selenium Grid has its own incompatibilities. Let’s look at how we can still make it work. Preparation I …
At work we use Selenium and BrowserStack for end-to-end tests in C#. How much work is it to connect Playwright to BrowserStack? Prerequisites For BrowserStack we need an account that can run code on the Automate feature. If you do not already have an account, you can create one for free and test BrowserStack. …
When you work with Playwright, there are a few small things that you want to change. Often there is a flag for codegen or a settings value that will do the trick. I collected the customisations for the parts I find most useful. Feel free to add a comment for other tricks you think I …
Over the last few weeks, I experimented with Playwright and wrote a few posts on how to work with it from C#. Because I got so many comments about Playwright whenever I blog about Selenium, I go for a slightly shorter set of posts that cover Playwright for Python users. The obstacles I run into …
If you need to find out what went wrong during an end-to-end test, a recorded video of the browser with all its interactions can be a time saver. What is true for Selenium Grid is also a good idea for Playwright. Let’s look at how we can create these videos with in NUnit and a …
If you need to find out what went wrong during an end-to-end test, a recorded video of the browser with all its interactions can be a time saver. Let’s look at how we can create these videos with a dynamic Selenium Grid. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find …