#368: End-to-End Web Testing with Playwright

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

How do you test whether your web sites are working well? Unit tests are great. But for web apps, the number of pieces that have to click together "just so" are many. You have databases, server code (such as a Flask app), server templates (Jinja for example), CSS, Javascript, and even deployment topologies (think nginx + uvicorn). Unit tests won't cover all of that integration. But Playwright does. Playwright is a modern, Pythonic take on testing webs apps using code driving a browser core to interact with web apps the way real users and API clients do. I think you'll find a lot to like there. And we have Pandy Knight from Automation Panda here to break it down for us.

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0:00.0	How do you test whether your websites are working well?
0:03.0	Unit tests are great, but for web apps, the number of pieces that have to click together
0:07.0	just so are many.
0:09.0	You have databases, server code, such as your Flask app, server templates like Ginger,
0:15.0	CSS, JavaScript, and even deployment topologies.
0:18.0	Think EngineX and UVAcorn.
0:21.2	Unit tests won't cover all of that integration, but Playwright does.
0:24.9	Playwright is a modern Pythonic take on testing web apps using code driving a browser core
0:30.1	engine to interact with web apps the way real users and API clients do.
0:35.2	I think you'll find a lot to like here.
0:37.1	And we have Pandy Knight from Automation Panda
0:39.3	here to break it down for us.
0:41.5	This is Talk Python to Me,
0:42.8	episode 369, recorded May 12th, 2012.
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