This weblog has been co-authored by Ashish Shah, Associate Director of Engineering, Azure Developer Expertise.
We’re excited to announce the preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a brand new service for working Playwright exams simply at scale. Playwright, a fast-growing, open-source framework, allows dependable end-to-end testing and automation for contemporary net apps. Microsoft Playwright Testing is a completely managed service that makes use of the cloud to allow you to run Playwright exams with a lot larger parallelization throughout completely different working system-browser mixtures concurrently. This implies quicker take a look at runs with broader state of affairs protection, which helps velocity up supply of options with out sacrificing high quality.
Prepared to leap in? Get your free Azure trial and begin working your exams at cloud-scale with Microsoft Playwright Testing.
Get take a look at suite outcomes quicker
Including Playwright exams to your steady integration (CI) workflow helps make sure that because the app evolves, your net app experiences proceed to work the best way you anticipate. However because the app turns into extra advanced, the take a look at suite required for complete testing throughout a number of browser and working system mixtures additionally will increase in measurement. This results in longer take a look at suite completion instances, probably delaying your function supply. Growth groups are already below stress to rapidly deploy app enhancements. To work round lengthy wait instances for take a look at completion, it is not uncommon observe for improvement groups to selectively run solely a small subset of exams. In a extra detrimental state of affairs, a staff might select to execute exams much less steadily, similar to just a few instances every week in an integration setting as an alternative of with each pull request. This strategy can probably delay catching points, complicate the method of pinpointing the reason for issues, and adversely have an effect on the general productiveness of the event staff.
With the @playwright/take a look at runner, your exams run in impartial, parallel employee processes with every course of beginning its personal browser. Rising the variety of parallel staff can scale back the time it takes to finish the complete take a look at suite. You possibly can set the variety of staff utilizing the command line:
npx playwright take a look at --workers=4
Nonetheless, whenever you run exams domestically or in your CI pipeline, you’re restricted to the variety of central processing unit (CPU) cores in your native machine or CI agent machine. Sooner or later including extra staff will result in useful resource competition, slowing down every employee and introducing take a look at flakiness.
Through the use of Microsoft Playwright Testing service you possibly can enhance the variety of staff at cloud-scale to a lot larger numbers. The employee processes orchestrated by @playwright/take a look at proceed to run domestically however the browser situations, that are resource-intensive, now run within the cloud. You possibly can see within the demo video under how 1000’s of exams run on 50 parallel browsers within the cloud managed by Microsoft Playwright Testing, considerably decreasing the wait time for take a look at outcomes.
Constant take a look at outcomes throughout a number of working methods and browser mixtures
App complexity isn’t the one think about rising take a look at suite measurement. Trendy net apps must work flawlessly throughout quite a few browsers, working methods, and units. Testing throughout all these variables will increase the period of time it takes to run your take a look at suite. With Microsoft Playwright Testing you’ll use the scalable parallelism offered by the service to run these exams concurrently throughout all trendy rendering engine. This consists of Chromium, WebKit and Firefox on Home windows, and Linux and cell emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Cell Safari. Additionally, the service-managed browsers guarantee constant and dependable outcomes for each practical and visible regression testing, whether or not exams are run out of your CI pipeline or improvement machine. This intensive cross-compatibility testing helps guarantee your net app delivers constant efficiency and performance throughout all platforms, optimizing the expertise for any consumer, no matter their browser or working system.
No take a look at code adjustments required
Should you’re utilizing Playwright at this time, getting began with Microsoft Playwright Testing is simple! The service is designed to seamlessly combine along with your Playwright take a look at suite, no adjustments to current take a look at code required. In just some steps you possibly can join your take a look at suite to the service and unlock the complete potential of cloud-powered parallel testing. Plus, the service helps a number of variations of Playwright and updates with every new Playwright launch, making certain your exams run in opposition to the newest browser variations and applied sciences whereas serving to to maintain your app present, sturdy, and safe. Now you possibly can concentrate on thorough utility testing with out the concern of managing a fancy take a look at infrastructure.
Get began with a free trial
Uncover all Microsoft Playwright Testing has to supply utilizing the free trial at this time. Register utilizing your Azure account (or create one free), then comply with our Quickstart information to configure your Playwright exams and run them at cloud-scale.
Subsequent you possibly can discover our versatile consumption-based pricing the place you pay just for what you employ.
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