Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps. It's an open-source Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers.
Playwright UI tests can be written as JavaScript code and then executed directly with node index.js, with Playwright Test Runner or using a 3rd party test runner (i.e. Mocha).
A Playwright UI test definition representing a typical user flow is written in a separate file cataloguserflow.spec.js. And executed using Playwright Test Runner. This is being used by the smoke test in the deployment pipeline as well as by the optional Load Generator.
The Playwright test definition is executed against the Front Door endpoint of the stamp as part of the smoke testing stage during the deployment pipeline. It will catch errors in the UI as well as capture screenshots for manual inspection and stores them as pipeline artifacts.
echo "Installing Playwright dependencies..."
npm install playwright-chromium @playwright/test -y
$env:TEST_BASEURL = "https://$frontDoorFqdn"
$env:SCREENSHOT_PATH = "$pwd/screenshots"
$playwrightTestPath = "src/testing/ui-test-playwright"
echo "*** Running PlayWright tests from $playwrightTestPath against https://$frontDoorFqdn"
npx playwright test -c $playwrightTestPath