How to Write End-to-End Tests for Chrome, Safari & Firefox Using Playwright
Getting started with everything you need to write end-to-end (E2E) tests using Microsoft’s Playwright browser automation & test library.
Playwright is an open source tool by Microsoft for browser automation and end-to-end testing. It’s like Google’s Puppeteer, or the archived Chromeless. Playwright can drive Chromium (Chrome), WebKit (Safari) and Firefox in both headed and headless modes (with and without windows on the screen.) It supports Typescript out of the box, too!
End-to-end (E2E) tests are not-really-unit tests in which real browsers are used to interact with a website or web app to check if things are working as expected. They’re commonly used to ensure that often-used UX/UI workflows like login pages or other app interactions are working correctly, often when it becomes too cumbersome to manually test everything in a SaaS product.
This article is Part 1 in a series of articles aimed at getting you started with everything you need to write end-to-end (E2E) tests using Playwright.
