Tutorial 9 – Pause, Retries, Multiple browser tabs in Playwright
What you will Learn in this blog:
Usage of ‘Pause’ and Playwright Inspector
Usage of ‘Retries’
Multiple Browser Pages/Tabs using single browser instance
Code snippet
Usage of ‘Pause’ in PW and Playwright Inspector
Sometimes we may want to pause our test so that we can either debug or wait for an even to occur etc.
.pause() method comes handy here, see the description below
The below script will launch the browser and then playwright will pause the script
Execute the script, notice below that ‘Playwright Inspector’ is launced the script pauses. The browser does not close automatically
Click the ‘Resume’ button to continue the script and the browser closes, test gets passed
Usage of ‘Retries’
Sometimes we may want to automatically execute a failed test multiple times (without manually executing the test). We might also want to do this if the tests are flaky for any reason.
To demonstrate this, let us intentionally remove .com from the domainname as seen below
Execute the command with --retries=2 flag (you can put any number though).
Notice below that the test executed 3 times (one is default execution and rest 2 are due to retries)
The error below points us that something is not right in line#22
Let us correct the script
Execute the script with --retries=2 flag.
Notice that the test executes only once this time, since the test passed in first instance itself. So basically, the ‘retries’ option will not be called if the test passes
Multiple Browser Page/Tabs using single browser instance
So far, we have been using the ‘page’ object to create ‘page’ instance for each test
Let us now use the ‘browser’ object.
The same browser instance can be used between all the tests
Let us see how.
Let us first create a new browser context. As can be seen in the description, the browser context will not share cache with other browser contexts
So let us create a ‘context’ variable holding the browser context
Using this context, we can now create a new browse page
So we have
Let us catch this new page in a const var page1
Similarly let us create 2 more pages using the same browser context
Next we can launch 3 websites on 3 different pages
Save and execute.
Notice below that 3 tabs open
Code snippet
import {test,expect} from '@playwright/test'
test('retries', async ({ page }) => {
await page.goto('http://zero.webappsecurity.com/online-banking.html')
//await page.pause();
})
test.only('Multiple browser pages', async ({ browser }) => {
const context = await browser.newContext()
const page1 = await context.newPage()
const page2 = await context.newPage()
const page3 = await context.newPage()
await page1.goto('https://www.bing.com/')
await page2.goto('https://www.bing.com/')
await page3.goto('https://www.bing.com/')
})
Thank you for reading!
