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Microsoft Playwright Testing PREVIEW

Scalable end-to-end web app testing and comprehensive reporting of test results
Streamline your continuous integration (CI) workflow with a unified dashboard and scalable cloud browsers
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Overview

Scale web testing and gain insights

  • Distribute tests across browsers with higher parallelization in continuous integration to run test suites faster.
  • Get reliable end-to-end testing for web apps, with support for all modern browsers on Linux and Windows OS.
  • Accelerate troubleshooting with insights from a comprehensive, CI-integrated dashboard.
  • Get support for the latest OSS framework features at scale with a trusted service created by developers for developers. 
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FEATURES

Run Playwright tests flexibly in the cloud

Parallel browsers

Distribute tests to run in parallel on up to 50 browsers and scale beyond local resources to accelerate testing.

Comprehensive reporting

Investigate failures using rich test results and detailed artifacts for Playwright tests run on any setup.

Endpoint testing

Test publicly and privately accessible applications or run tests against a localhost development server.

Playwright OSS support

Get support for multiple versions of Playwright OSS with each new Playwright release.

Test scripts

Seamlessly integrate your existing test suite without changing any test code.

Consistent regional performance

Run your tests automatically on cloud-hosted browsers in the closest Azure region.

Built-in security and compliance 

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We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
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Flexible consumption-based pricing

Pay only for what you use and get started quickly with a free trial of Microsoft Playwright Testing Preview.
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RESOURCES

Microsoft Playwright Testing resources and documentation

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Documentation

Read technical documentation

Learn more about using the Playwright Testing service for your web application testing. 
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Quickstart

Run Playwright tests at scale

Learn how to run existing Playwright tests with parallel cloud browsers and use a reporting dashboard for faster troubleshooting.
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Quickstart

Set up continuous testing

Set up continuous end-to-end testing with GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, and other CI tools.
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Video

Scale your Playwright tests

See how hundreds of tests can take just over a minute to run in this introductory video.
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Documentation

Increase parallelism

Learn how to speed up test execution by increasing parallelism at cloud scale.
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Feedback forum

Suggest a feature or report a bug you've found in Playwright Testing Preview.
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Take scalable end-to-end web app testing to the next level with comprehensive reporting.
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FAQ

  • Playwright Testing is available in the East US, West US 3, East Asia, and West Europe Azure regions. Learn about optimizing regional latency.
  • A workspace can run up to 50 parallel tests. Learn more about parallelism in Playwright Testing.
  • Use any device to test against Linux and Windows OS environments and all modern browsers (including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox) that are hosted in the cloud.
  • You can use Playwright Testing to run tests for cloud-hosted applications, on-premises applications, and localhost development servers.
  • Support is available for multiple versions of Playwright OSS. Every new OSS version is supported shortly after its release.
  • The regional affinity feature lets you connect to browsers in the region closest to the location where tests are initiated. This region may differ from the region where the workspace is created. Regional affinity can help minimize network latency during test execution.
  • Reporting data is stored in the region where the workspace is created.
  • Reports are retained for 90 days.
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