Playwright is a modern end-to-end testing framework developed by Microsoft 🏢.

It allows you to automate browsers 🖥️ like Chromium (Chrome, Edge), Firefox, and WebKit (Safari) with a single API.

🌟 Why Playwright?

👉 Imagine you are testing your website manually:

Open browser
Type URL
Click buttons
Fill forms
Check responses

😩 Sounds boring and repetitive, right?
💡 Playwright does all this automatically with speed, accuracy, and consistency ✅.

Features of Playwright

🌍 Cross-Browser Testing

Works with Chromium, Firefox, WebKit
Test your app on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS 📱💻

⚡ Fast & Reliable

Runs tests in parallel 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️
Auto-waits for elements (no flaky tests) ⏳
Can record actions & generate code 🎥

🤹 Multi-Language Support

Write scripts in your favorite language 💻:

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python 🐍
C# ⚙️
Java ☕

🔐 Authentication Handling

Save & reuse login sessions 🔑
Test apps that need secure authentication

🧪 Powerful Testing Tools

Visual Comparisons (take screenshots 📸)
Network Interception (mock APIs 🔄)
Mobile Emulation (test responsive apps 📱)

🛠️ How Playwright Works?

🎬 Simple Example (Python)

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False)  # Open browser
    page = browser.new_page()
    page.goto("https://example.com")  # Go to website
    page.screenshot(path="screenshot.png")  # Take screenshot
    browser.close()

✅ This script will:

Launch Chromium browser
Open example.com 🌐
Take a screenshot 📸
Close browser 🚪

🎯 Advantages Over Selenium

Feature 🔑	Playwright 🎭	Selenium 🐍
Cross-browser ✅	Yes 🌍	Yes
Speed ⚡	Faster 🚀	Slower 🐢
Auto-wait ⏳	Yes ✔️	Manual waits ❌
Mobile Emulation 📱	Built-in	Limited
API Testing 🔄	Yes 🎉	No
Parallel Testing 🧩	Super smooth 😎	Needs setup

🌈 Use Cases of Playwright

✔️ Automated regression testing
✔️ Checking cross-browser compatibility
✔️ Scraping data from websites 📊
✔️ Running tests on CI/CD pipelines 🔄
✔️ Validating UI/UX flow 🎨

🎆 Final Takeaway

Playwright = One framework to test them all 🌍✨
It’s fast, reliable, cross-platform, and developer-friendly 💻🎭

👉 If you want a modern alternative to Selenium with superpowers 🚀,
then Playwright is your go-to tool 🏆.