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| id | title |
|---|---|
| ci | Continuous Integration |
Playwright tests can be executed in CI environments. We have created sample configurations for common CI providers.
Introduction
3 steps to get your tests running on CI:
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Ensure CI agent can run browsers: Use our Docker image in Linux agents or install your dependencies using the CLI. Windows and macOS agents do not require any additional dependencies.
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Install Playwright:
# Install NPM packages npm ci # or npm install # Install Playwright browsers npx playwright installpip install playwright playwright install -
Run your tests:
npm testpytest
CI configurations
The Command line tools can be used to install all operating system dependencies on GitHub Actions.
GitHub Actions
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/setup-node@v2
with:
node-version: '14'
- name: Install operating system dependencies
run: npx playwright install-deps
- name: Run your tests
run: npm test
steps:
- name: Set up Python
uses: actions/setup-python@v2
with:
python-version: 3.8
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install playwright
pip install -e .
- name: Ensure browsers are installed
run: python -m playwright install
- name: Install operating system dependencies
run: python -m playwright install-deps
- name: Run your tests
run: pytest
We run our tests on GitHub Actions, across a matrix of 3 platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) and 3 browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit).
GitHub Actions on deployment
This will start the tests after a GitHub Deployment went into the success state.
Services like Azure Static Web Apps, Netlify, Vercel, etc. use this pattern so you can run your end-to-end tests on their deployed enviornment.
name: Playwright Tests
on:
deployment_status:
jobs:
test:
timeout-minutes: 60
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
if: github.event.deployment_status.state == 'success'
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/setup-node@v2
with:
node-version: '14.x'
- name: Install dependencies
run: npm ci
- name: Install Playwright
run: npx playwright install --with-deps
- name: Run Playwright tests
run: npm run test:e2e
env:
# This might depend on your test-runner/language binding
PLAYWRIGHT_TEST_BASE_URL: ${{ github.event.deployment_status.target_url }}
Docker
We have a pre-built Docker image which can either be used directly, or as a reference to update your existing Docker definitions.
Suggested configuration
-
By default, Docker runs a container with a
/dev/shmshared memory space 64MB. This is typically too small for Chromium and will cause Chromium to crash when rendering large pages. To fix, run the container withdocker run --shm-size=1gbto increase the size of/dev/shm. Since Chromium 65, this is no longer necessary. Instead, launch the browser with the--disable-dev-shm-usageflag:const browser = await playwright.chromium.launch({ args: ['--disable-dev-shm-usage'] });Browser browser = playwright.chromium().launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions() .setArgs(Arrays.asList("--disable-dev-shm-usage")));browser = await playwright.chromium.launch( args=['--disable-dev-shm-usage'] )browser = playwright.chromium.launch({ args=['--disable-dev-shm-usage'] })await playwright.Chromium.LaunchAsync(new BrowserTypeLaunchOptions { Args = new[] { "--disable-dev-shm-usage" } });This will write shared memory files into
/tmpinstead of/dev/shm. See crbug.com/736452 for more details. -
Using
--ipc=hostis also recommended when using Chromium—without it Chromium can run out of memory and crash. Learn more about this option in Docker docs. -
Seeing other weird errors when launching Chromium? Try running your container with
docker run --cap-add=SYS_ADMINwhen developing locally. -
dumb-init is worth checking out if you're experiencing a lot of zombies Chromium processes sticking around. There's special treatment for processes with PID=1, which makes it hard to terminate Chromium properly in some cases (e.g. in Docker).
Azure Pipelines
For Windows or macOS agents, no additional configuration required, just install Playwright and run your tests.
For Linux agents, you can use our Docker container with Azure Pipelines support for running containerized jobs. Alternatively, you can refer to the Dockerfile to see additional dependencies that need to be installed on a Ubuntu agent.
pool:
vmImage: 'ubuntu-20.04'
container: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:focal
steps:
...
Travis CI
Suggested configuration
- User namespace cloning should be enabled to support proper sandboxing
- xvfb should be launched in order to run Chromium in non-headless mode (e.g. to test Chrome Extensions)
- If your project does not have
package-lock.json, Travis would be auto-cachingnode_modulesdirectory. If you runnpm install(instead ofnpm ci), it is possible that the browser binaries are not downloaded. Fix this with these steps outlined below.
To sum up, your .travis.yml might look like this:
language: node_js
dist: bionic
addons:
apt:
packages:
# These are required to run webkit
- libwoff1
- libopus0
- libwebp6
- libwebpdemux2
- libenchant1c2a
- libgudev-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libhyphen0
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libegl1
- libgles2
- libevent-2.1-6
- libnotify4
- libxslt1.1
- libvpx5
# gstreamer and plugins to support video playback in WebKit.
- gstreamer1.0-gl
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
# This is required to run chromium
- libgbm1
# this is needed for running headed tests
- xvfb
# allow headed tests
before_install:
# Enable user namespace cloning
- "sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1"
# Launch XVFB
- "export DISPLAY=:99.0"
- "sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start"
CircleCI
Running Playwright on CircleCI requires the following steps:
-
Use the pre-built Docker image in your config like so:
docker: - image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:focal environment: NODE_ENV: development # Needed if playwright is in `devDependencies` -
If you’re using Playwright through Jest, then you may encounter an error spawning child processes:
[00:00.0] jest args: --e2e --spec --max-workers=36 Error: spawn ENOMEM at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:394:11)This is likely caused by Jest autodetecting the number of processes on the entire machine (
36) rather than the number allowed to your container (2). To fix this, setjest --maxWorkers=2in your test command.
Jenkins
Jenkins supports Docker agents for pipelines. Use the Playwright Docker image to run tests on Jenkins.
pipeline {
agent { docker { image 'mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:focal' } }
stages {
stage('e2e-tests') {
steps {
sh 'npm install'
sh 'npm run test'
}
}
}
}
Bitbucket Pipelines
Bitbucket Pipelines can use public Docker images as build environments. To run Playwright tests on Bitbucket, use our public Docker image (see Dockerfile).
image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:focal
While the Docker image supports sandboxing for Chromium, it does not work in the Bitbucket Pipelines environment. To launch Chromium on Bitbucket Pipelines, use the chromiumSandbox: false launch argument.
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const browser = await chromium.launch({ chromiumSandbox: false });
import com.microsoft.playwright.*;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try (Playwright playwright = Playwright.create()) {
BrowserType chromium = playwright.chromium();
Browser browser = chromium.launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions().setChromiumSandbox(false));
}
}
}
browser = await playwright.chromium.launch(chromium_sandbox=False)
browser = playwright.chromium.launch(chromium_sandbox=False)
using Microsoft.Playwright;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
public static async Task Main()
{
using var playwright = await Playwright.CreateAsync();
await playwright.Chromium.LaunchAsync(new BrowserTypeLaunchOptions
{
ChromiumSandbox = false
});
}
}
GitLab CI
To run Playwright tests on GitLab, use our public Docker image (see Dockerfile).
stages:
- test
tests:
stage: test
image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:focal
script:
...
Caching browsers
By default, Playwright downloads browser binaries when the Playwright NPM package
is installed. The NPM packages have a postinstall hook that downloads the browser
binaries. This behavior can be customized with environment variables.
Caching browsers on CI is strictly optional: The postinstall hooks should
execute and download the browser binaries on every run.
Exception: node_modules are cached (Node-specific)
Most CI providers cache the npm-cache
directory (located at $HOME/.npm). If your CI pipelines caches the node_modules
directory and you run npm install (instead of npm ci), the default configuration
will not work. This is because the npm install step will find the Playwright NPM
package on disk and not execute the postinstall step.
Travis CI automatically caches
node_modulesif your repo does not have apackage-lock.jsonfile.
This behavior can be fixed with one of the following approaches:
- Move to caching
$HOME/.npmor the npm-cache directory. (This is the default behavior in most CI providers.) - Set
PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=0as the environment variable before runningnpm install. This will download the browser binaries in thenode_modulesdirectory and cache them with the package code. See managing browser binaries. - Use
npm ci(instead ofnpm install) which forces a clean install: by removing the existingnode_modulesdirectory. See npm docs. - Cache the browser binaries, with the steps below.
Directories to cache
With the default behavior, Playwright downloads the browser binaries in the following directories:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\ms-playwrighton Windows~/Library/Caches/ms-playwrighton MacOS~/.cache/ms-playwrighton Linux
To cache the browser downloads between CI runs, cache this location in your CI configuration, against a hash of the Playwright version.
Debugging browser launches
Playwright supports the DEBUG environment variable to output debug logs during execution. Setting it to pw:browser* is helpful while debugging Error: Failed to launch browser errors.
DEBUG=pw:browser* npm run test
DEBUG=pw:browser* pytest
Running headed
By default, Playwright launches browsers in headless mode. This can be changed by passing a flag when the browser is launched.
// Works across chromium, firefox and webkit
const { chromium } = require('playwright');
const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });
// Works across chromium, firefox and webkit
import com.microsoft.playwright.*;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try (Playwright playwright = Playwright.create()) {
BrowserType chromium = playwright.chromium();
Browser browser = chromium.launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions().setHeadless(false));
}
}
}
import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
async def main():
async with async_playwright() as p:
# Works across chromium, firefox and webkit
browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=False)
asyncio.run(main())
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
with sync_playwright() as p:
# Works across chromium, firefox and webkit
browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False)
using Microsoft.Playwright;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
public static async Task Main()
{
using var playwright = await Playwright.CreateAsync();
await playwright.Chromium.LaunchAsync(new BrowserTypeLaunchOptions
{
Headless = false
});
}
}
On Linux agents, headed execution requires Xvfb to be installed. Our Docker image and GitHub Action have Xvfb pre-installed. To run browsers in headed mode with Xvfb, add xvfb-run before the Node.js command.
xvfb-run node index.js
xvfb-run python test.py