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azure-microsoft-playwright-testing-ts

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Runs Playwright tests on cloud-hosted browsers through Azure Playwright Workspaces.

Setup & Installation

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-microsoft-playwright-testing-ts
or paste the link and ask your coding assistant to install it
https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-typescript/skills/azure-microsoft-playwright-testing-ts
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What This Skill Does

Runs Playwright tests on cloud-hosted browsers through Azure Playwright Workspaces. Handles parallel test execution across up to 20+ workers, publishes results to the Azure portal, and integrates with GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines via Microsoft Entra ID authentication.

Running Playwright tests locally or on a single CI agent serializes execution and lacks centralized reporting, while Azure Playwright Workspaces distributes tests across cloud browsers and aggregates results in one portal view.

When to use it

  • Scaling a slow local Playwright suite to 20 parallel workers in CI
  • Viewing test results and artifacts across runs in the Azure portal
  • Running cross-browser tests on Windows or Linux cloud browsers without local setup
  • Authenticating test runs in GitHub Actions using OIDC and Entra ID instead of static tokens
  • Publishing video and trace artifacts from flaky test retries to a central Azure workspace