Playwright
Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
Playwright is an open-source browser automation framework for end-to-end testing, scripting, and AI agent workflows across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit. It features auto-waiting assertions, test isolation via fresh browser contexts, resilient locators, and parallelism for fast CI pipelines. It also provides Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and CLI tooling purpose-built for AI coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
Playwright controls Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit browsers via a unified API with auto-waiting, test isolation, resilient locators, and parallel execution, while also exposing accessibility-tree-based tools for AI agents via MCP.
software developers and QA engineers building and testing modern web applications
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Microsoft
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