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Microsoft Playwright Testing is a fully managed service that uses the cloud to enable you to run Playwright tests with much higher parallelization across different operating system-browser combinations simultaneously. Along with this, it enables you to publish test results and artifacts collected by Playwright to the service. This means faster test runs with broader scenario coverage, which helps speed up delivery of features without sacrificing quality.

Ready to get started? Jump into our quickstart guide!

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Get Started

Follow these steps to run your existing Playwright test suite with the service.

Prerequisites

• An Azure account with an active subscription. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
• Your Azure account must be assigned the Owner, Contributor, or one of the classic administrator roles.
• A Playwright project. If you don't have one, you can clone this repository and navigate to samples/get-started.
• Azure CLI. If you don't have Azure CLI, see Install Azure CLI

Create a Workspace

1. Sign in to the Playwright portal with your Azure account.

2. Create the Workspace.

   

   Field	Description
   Workspace Name	A unique name to identify your workspace. The name can't contain special characters or whitespace.
   Azure Subscription	Select an Azure subscription where you want to create the workspace.
   Region	This is where test run data will be stored for your workspace.

Note

If you don't see this screen, select an existing workspace and go to the next section.

Install Microsoft Playwright Testing package

To use the service, install Microsoft Playwright Testing package.

npm init @azure/microsoft-playwright-testing

This generates playwright.service.config.ts file which serves to:

• Direct and authenticate Playwright to the Microsoft Playwright Testing service.
• Adds a reporter to publish test results and artifacts.

If you already have this file, the package asks you to override it.

Note

Make sure your project uses @playwright/test version 1.47 or above.

Obtain region endpoint

1. In the Playwright portal, copy the command under Add region endpoint in your set up.

   

   The endpoint URL corresponds to the workspace region. You might see a different endpoint URL in the Playwright portal, depending on the region you selected when creating the workspace.

Note

The region end point could be updated. Make sure you copy the latest value from Playwright portal .

Set up environment

Ensure that the PLAYWRIGHT_SERVICE_URL that you obtained in previous step is available in your environment.

We recommend using dotenv module to manage your environment. With dotenv you'll be using the .env file to define your environment variables.

Important

Don't forget to add .env file to your .gitignore file in order to not leak your secrets.

npm i --save-dev dotenv

.env file

PLAYWRIGHT_SERVICE_URL={MY-REGION-ENDPOINT}

Make sure to replace the {MY-REGION-ENDPOINT} text placeholder with the value you copied earlier.

Set up Authentication

To run your Playwright tests in your Microsoft Playwright Testing workspace, you need to authenticate the Playwright client where you are running the tests with the service. This could be your local dev machine or CI machine.

The service offers two authentication methods: Microsoft Entra ID and Access Tokens.

Microsoft Entra ID uses your Azure credentials, requiring a sign-in to your Azure account for secure access. Alternatively, you can generate an access token from your Playwright workspace and use it in your setup.

You can follow any one of the authentication methods below:

We strongly recommend using Microsoft Entra ID for authentication to the service.

Set up authtication using Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID is the default and recommended authentication for the service. From your local dev machine, you can use Azure CLI to sign-in

az login

NOTE: If you are a part of multiple Microsoft Entra tenants, make sure you sign-in to the tenant where your workspace belongs. You can get the tenant id from Azure portal, see Find your Microsoft Entra Tenant. Once you get the ID, sign-in using the command az login --tenant <TenantID>

Set up authentication using access tokens

You can generate an access token from your Playwright Testing workspace and use it in your setup. However, we strongly recommend Microsoft Entra ID for authentication due to its enhanced security. Access tokens, while convenient, function like long-lived passwords and are more susceptible to being compromised.

1. Authentication using access tokens is disabled by default. To enable, see Enable access-token based authentication

2. Set up authentication using access tokens

We strongly recommend using Microsoft Entra ID for authentication to the service. If you are using access tokens, see How to Manage Access Tokens

Run the tests

Run Playwright tests against browsers managed by the service using the configuration you created above.

npx playwright test --config=playwright.service.config.ts --workers=20

Next steps

• Run tests in a CI/CD pipeline.

• Learn how to manage access to the created workspace.

• Experiment with different number of workers to determine the optimal configuration of your test suite.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

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