Playwright's advanced test automation capabilities

Just as we explored the advanced features of the Selenium and Cypress frameworks that frontend developers and SDETs can, and should, use in Chapter 9, Working with the Selenium Framework, and Chapter 10, Working with the Cypress Framework, respectively, we will carry out a similar overview of the most advanced features of Playwright.

Note

Measuring code coverage (https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-coverage) is also considered a powerful capability within software test automation. However, since we've covered the abilities of code coverage with Istanbul and Babel in Chapter 8, Measuring Test Coverage of the Web Application, we will not repeat it here. Keep in mind that for Playwright, the code coverage with Istanbul is currently only supported on Chromium-based browsers.

Playwright Inspector

The Playwright framework provides a GUI tool that can facilitate test automation creation and debugging. The Inspector...