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Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright
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Hands-On Automated Testing with Playwright

by Faraz K. Kelhini, Butch Mayhew
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
8h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Test Parallelization and Performance Optimization

As your test suite grows, waiting a long time for it to run can really slow you down, especially when you’re trying to ship quickly and frequently. That’s where test parallelization and performance optimization come in. The good news is that Playwright makes it surprisingly easy to boost performance without losing reliability.

In this chapter, we’ll explore how Playwright’s parallelism model works under the hood and how you can take full advantage of it. You’ll learn how to run tests in parallel across multiple workers, split test suites across continuous integration (CI) machines, and even run individual tests in parallel when it makes sense. We’ll also look at practical ways to optimize performance, ...

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