Any browser • Any platform • One API

• Cross-browser : Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox.
• Cross-platform : Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed.
• Cross-language : Use the Playwright API in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Java.
• Test Mobile Web : Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on your Desktop and in the Cloud.

Resilient • No flaky tests

• Auto-wait : Playwright waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. It also has a rich set of introspection events. The combination of the two eliminates the need for artificial timeouts - the primary cause of flaky tests.
• Web-first assertions : Playwright assertions are created specifically for the dynamic web. Checks are automatically retried until the necessary conditions are met.
• Tracing : Configure test retry strategy, capture execution trace, videos, screenshots to eliminate flakes.

No trade-offs • No limits

Browsers run web content belonging to different origins in different processes. Playwright is aligned with the modern browsers architecture and runs tests out-of-process. This makes Playwright free of the typical in-process test runner limitations.

• Multiple everything : Test scenarios that span multiple tabs, multiple origins and multiple users. Create scenarios with different contexts for different users and run them against your server, all in one test.
• Trusted events : Hover elements, interact with dynamic controls, produce trusted events. Playwright uses real browser input pipeline indistinguishable from the real user.
• Test frames, pierce Shadow DOM : Playwright selectors pierce shadow DOM and allow entering frames seamlessly.

Full isolation • Fast execution

• Browser contexts : Playwright creates a browser context for each test. Browser context is equivalent to a brand new browser profile. This delivers full test isolation with zero overhead. Creating a new browser context only takes a handful of milliseconds.
• Log in once : Save the authentication state of the context and reuse it in all the tests. This bypasses repetitive log-in operations in each test, yet delivers full isolation of independent tests.

Powerful Tooling

• Codegen : Generate tests by recording your actions. Save them into any language.
• Playwright inspector : Inspect page, generate selectors, step through the test execution, see click points, explore execution logs.
• Trace Viewer : Capture all the information to investigate the test failure. Playwright trace contains test execution screencast, live DOM snapshots, action explorer, test source, and many more.