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 …
If you must run Playwright on a specific browser, you will find a service like BrowserStack a great help. Let’s look how we can connect Playwright to BrowserStack and Selenium Grid. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code …
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 …
With the newly gained knowledge about Playwright, we have everything together to go and automate a browser to do repetitive tasks. Let’s figure out how Playwright differs from Selenium when it comes to download Jetpack statistics. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series …
In this post we explore 3 helpful ways to figure out what went wrong if Playwright cannot find the elements we are looking for. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post in my PythonFriday repository …
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. …
Last week we got Playwright up and running in Python. In this post we build on that and start to automate our browser. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. You find the code for this post in my PythonFriday repository on …
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 …