Skip to Content
Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright
book

Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright

by Faraz K. Kelhini, Butch Mayhew
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
8h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright

3

Browser-Agnostic Testing Across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit

In modern web development, ensuring that your application behaves consistently across all major browsers is no longer optional: it’s essential. In this chapter, we’ll introduce you to Playwright’s browser-agnostic testing capabilities, showing you how to run a single suite of end-to-end tests against all major browsers with zero code duplication. You’ll learn how to define multiple projects in your Playwright configuration, each customized to a different browser or device profile, and how to launch them in parallel to catch compatibility issues early in your development cycle.

Next, we’ll dive into all the ways you can tweak your browser contexts: adjusting viewport sizes and user ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Practical Playwright Test: Next-Generation Web Testing and Automation

Practical Playwright Test: Next-Generation Web Testing and Automation

Jean-François Greffier
Hands-On RAG for Production

Hands-On RAG for Production

Ofer Mendelevitch, Forrest Sheng Bao

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781806106479