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Debbie O’Brien –Senior Program Manager at Microsoft– joins Amal & Nick for a deep-dive on Playwright, an automation library for cross-browser end-to-end testing. Along the way, we learn why Microsoft decided to fork Puppeteer, Playwright’s unique value proposition, cool features like auto-waiting & the trace viewer, how it compares to Cypress & a lot more.

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Featuring:

• Debbie O'Brien – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Shout out to Caio Amaral for requesting this episode. You, too, can request an episode!

• Mallorca
• playwright.dev
• Playwright on GitHub
• Nuxt
• puppeteer
• Selenium
• Playwright test for VSCode
• Getting started - VS Code
• Testing Library
• Playwright on YouTube
• What’s new in Playwright 1.27
• Test Generator
• CI GitHub Actions

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!