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A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing
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A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing

by Eran Kinsbruner
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 11: Working with the Playwright Framework

As highlighted in Chapter 3, Top Web Test Automation Frameworks, Playwright is among the newest and most modern frontend test automation frameworks. Being built on top of CDP (the Chrome Debugger Protocol) allows the framework to acquire the deep coverage and testing abilities of any web application across all browser types. With CDP (https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/), frontend web application developers can better inspect their web applications, debug them, cover the network and performance aspects of the app, scan the app for accessibility and PWA compliance, and much more besides. As opposed to the Cypress and Google Puppeteer frameworks, which only come with JavaScript ...

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