This weblog has been co-authored by Ashish Shah, Accomplice Director of Engineering, Azure Developer Expertise.
We’re excited to announce the preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a brand new service for operating Playwright exams simply at scale. Playwright, a fast-growing, open-source framework, permits 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 combos concurrently. This implies quicker check runs with broader state of affairs protection, which helps pace up supply of options with out sacrificing high quality.
Prepared to leap in? Get your free Azure trial and begin operating your exams at cloud-scale with Microsoft Playwright Testing.
Get check suite outcomes quicker
Including Playwright exams to your steady integration (CI) workflow helps be sure that because the app evolves, your net app experiences proceed to work the way in which you count on. However because the app turns into extra advanced, the check suite required for complete testing throughout a number of browser and working system combos additionally will increase in dimension. This results in longer check suite completion occasions, doubtlessly delaying your function supply. Growth groups are already underneath stress to rapidly deploy app enhancements. To work round lengthy wait occasions for check completion, it is not uncommon apply for growth groups to selectively run solely a small subset of exams. In a extra detrimental state of affairs, a group might select to execute exams much less steadily, comparable to just a few occasions per week in an integration setting as an alternative of with each pull request. This method can doubtlessly delay catching points, complicate the method of pinpointing the reason for issues, and adversely have an effect on the general productiveness of the event group.
With the @playwright/check runner, your exams run in unbiased, parallel employee processes with every course of beginning its personal browser. Rising the variety of parallel employees can scale back the time it takes to finish the total check suite. You’ll be able to set the variety of employees utilizing the command line:
npx playwright check --workers=4
Nonetheless, while you run exams regionally 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. In some unspecified time in the future including extra employees will result in useful resource rivalry, slowing down every employee and introducing check flakiness.
By utilizing Microsoft Playwright Testing service you’ll be able to improve the variety of employees at cloud-scale to a lot larger numbers. The employee processes orchestrated by @playwright/check proceed to run regionally however the browser situations, that are resource-intensive, now run within the cloud. You’ll be able to 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 lowering the wait time for check outcomes.
Constant check outcomes throughout a number of working techniques and browser combos
App complexity isn’t the one think about growing check suite dimension. Fashionable net apps must work flawlessly throughout quite a few browsers, working techniques, and units. Testing throughout all these variables will increase the period of time it takes to run your check suite. With Microsoft Playwright Testing you’ll use the scalable parallelism offered by the service to run these exams concurrently throughout all fashionable rendering engine. This consists of Chromium, WebKit and Firefox on Home windows, and Linux and cell emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Cellular 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 growth machine. This intensive cross-compatibility testing helps guarantee your net app delivers constant efficiency and performance throughout all platforms, optimizing the expertise for any person, no matter their browser or working system.
No check code modifications required
Should you’re utilizing Playwright at present, getting began with Microsoft Playwright Testing is simple! The service is designed to seamlessly combine together with your Playwright check suite, no modifications to current check code required. In only a few steps you’ll be able to join your check suite to the service and unlock the total 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’ll be able to concentrate on thorough software testing with out the fear of managing a posh check infrastructure.
Get began with a free trial
Uncover all Microsoft Playwright Testing has to supply utilizing the free trial at present. 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’ll be able to discover our versatile consumption-based pricing the place you pay just for what you employ.
Share your suggestions
What would you wish to see? We’d love to listen to your suggestions to assist form the way forward for this service.
