Playwright’s Reporting, Runners, Viewer, Configuration, and CI

Learn about Playwright’s test reporting, tracing capabilities, and advanced configurations, including integration with CI tools like GitHub Actions.

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Playwright test reporting

In stark contrast to Cypress and Selenium, which provide nice test reports with flakiness filtering and more either through plugins, such as Allure, or their own dashboard, for Playwright, test reporting is not advanced. Several test reporters can be used out of the box. However, they’re either console outputs with pass-and-fail results or JUnit test reports. Upon running the test with —-reporter=junit, the output report of the execution will be saved in a results.xml file:

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