An introduction to the Playwright Library - Ryan Howard

JavaScript is blessed with an abundance of UI test automation, Libraries, tools & frameworks such as WebdriverIO, Cypress, TestCafe, protractor, Puppeteer, to name but a few but 2020 saw the launch of a brand new library, Playwright.

Playwright, from those guys at Microsoft, is a Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

In this talk we'll look at the basic of Playwright to understand why it has gained so much attention in the past few months and why it is tipped to have a bright future.

About Ryan:

"I've been a software tester for the past 10 years and recently launched my own test consultancy How QA. I have a passion for quality and enjoy exploring new tools and libraries. I am an occasional blogger, public speaker and co-organiser of the East Anglia Quality Assurance meet up."