VSCode Extension

• New Playwright actions view

  

• Pick selector
  You can pick selector right from a live page, before or after running a test

  

• Record new test
  Start recording where you left off with the new 'Record new test' feature.

• Show & reuse browser
  Watch your tests running live & keep devtools open. Develop while continuously running tests.

Test Runner

• test.step(title, body) now returns the value of the step function:

  test('should work', async ({ page }) => {
      const pageTitle = await test.step('get title', async () => {
          await page.goto('https://playwright.dev');
          return await page.title();
      });
      console.log(pageTitle);
  });

• Added test.describe.fixme(title, callback).

• New 'interrupted' test status.

• Enable tracing via CLI flag: npx playwright test --trace=on.

• New property testCase.id that can be use in reporters as a history ID.

Announcements

• 🎁 We now ship Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish docker image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.25.0-jammy.
• 🪦 This is the last release with macOS 10.15 support (deprecated as of 1.21).
• 🪦 This is the last release with Node.js 12 support, we recommend upgrading to Node.js LTS (16).
• ⚠️ Ubuntu 18 is now deprecated and will not be supported as of Dec 2022.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 105.0.5195.19
• Mozilla Firefox 103.0
• WebKit 16.0

This version was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 104
• Microsoft Edge 104