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I'm really excited by what Playwright has been up to on the python side recently with the pytest-playwright package. Browser-testing a Django app can be as simple as:

  def test_homepage(live_server, page):
      page.goto(live_server.url)
      assert page.innerText('#splash-quote') == 'our splash-quote'
  
  $ pytest -k test_homepage --browser chromium --browser firefox --verbose
  tests/test_browser.py::test_homepage[chromium] PASSED                [ 50%]
  tests/test_browser.py::test_homepage[firefox] PASSED                 [100%]


It would be neat if I could get coverage from these tests using python, but other than that I agree. Playwright is great.


It’s been some time since I’ve used Selenium, but I don’t remember it being any more complicated than that to test arbitrary websites.

What is that code doing that’s special?


Not OP. For one thing, Selenium was not super reliable, at least for me, especially when trying to run multiple instances. Do note that I used the official docker swarm method.

When I was exploring that option, Playwright was still windows only. Super excited to see it is available on Linux and Mac.


Playwright has always supported all platforms: Win, Linux and Mac. Is there something that didn’t work for you?


Maybe it didn't have python support? Sorry, I may have misremembered. I do remember something missing that I couldn't use it in my existing dev setup. As solo developer, I prefer to keep my dependencies minimal, mostly python.




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