Playwright

The product is an open-source web automation framework that provides a single API to drive Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit for end-to-end testing, scripting, and AI agent workflows, addressing flaky tests and cross-browser automation. It is for software developers and engineering teams building and maintaining modern web applications. It is delivered as open-source libraries for TypeScript, Python, .NET, and Java with a test runner, CLI, and MCP server for browser control.

Key features

• Auto-wait and web-first assertions
• Test isolation with fresh browser contexts
• Resilient locators via getByRole and others
• Parallelism and sharding across browsers
• Cross-browser testing on Chromium Firefox WebKit
• Accessibility snapshots for AI agents
• MCP server for AI clients
• CLI for coding agents
• Session monitoring with live screencast
• Test generator from recorded actions
• Trace Viewer with DOM snapshots
• VS Code extension for testing
• Network inspection and request mocking
• Cookie and storage state management
• Vision mode coordinate-based interaction
• Tracing and video recording
• Browser automation navigation and interaction