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Playwright Test supports running multiple test projects at the same time. This is useful for running tests in multiple configurations. For example, consider running tests against multiple browsers. This type describes format of a project in the configuration file, to access resolved configuration parameters at run time use FullProject .
TestProject encapsulates configuration specific to a single project. Projects are configured in testConfig.projects
specified in the configuration file
. Note that all properties of TestProject
are available in the top-level TestConfig
, in which case they are shared between all projects.
Here is an example configuration that runs every test in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, both Desktop and Mobile versions.
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig, devices } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ // Options shared for all projects. timeout: 30000, use: { ignoreHTTPSErrors: true, }, // Options specific to each project. projects: [ { name: 'chromium', use: devices['Desktop Chrome'], }, { name: 'firefox', use: devices['Desktop Firefox'], }, { name: 'webkit', use: devices['Desktop Safari'], }, { name: 'Mobile Chrome', use: devices['Pixel 5'], }, { name: 'Mobile Safari', use: devices['iPhone 12'], }, ],});
Properties
Added in: v1.31 testProject.dependencies
List of projects that need to run before any test in this project runs. Dependencies can be useful for configuring the global setup actions in a way that every action is in a form of a test. Passing --no-deps argument ignores the dependencies and behaves as if they were not specified.
Using dependencies allows global setup to produce traces and other artifacts, see the setup steps in the test report, etc.
Usage
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ projects: [ { name: 'setup', testMatch: /global.setup\.ts/, }, { name: 'chromium', use: devices['Desktop Chrome'], dependencies: ['setup'], }, { name: 'firefox', use: devices['Desktop Firefox'], dependencies: ['setup'], }, { name: 'webkit', use: devices['Desktop Safari'], dependencies: ['setup'], }, ],});
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.expect
Configuration for the expect assertion library.
Use testConfig.expect to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.expect
Type
timeout number
(optional)
Default timeout for async expect matchers in milliseconds, defaults to 5000ms.
toHaveScreenshot Object
(optional)
threshold number
(optional)
an acceptable perceived color difference between the same pixel in compared images, ranging from 0 (strict) and 1 (lax). "pixelmatch" comparator computes color difference in YIQ color space
and defaults threshold value to 0.2.
maxDiffPixels number
(optional)
an acceptable amount of pixels that could be different, unset by default.
maxDiffPixelRatio number
(optional)
an acceptable ratio of pixels that are different to the total amount of pixels, between 0 and 1 , unset by default.
animations "allow" | "disabled" (optional)
See animations
in page.screenshot()
. Defaults to "disabled".
caret "hide" | "initial" (optional)
See caret
in page.screenshot()
. Defaults to "hide".
scale "css" | "device" (optional)
See scale
in page.screenshot()
. Defaults to "css".
stylePath string
| Array
<string
> (optional)
See style in page.screenshot() .
pathTemplate string
(optional)
A template controlling location of the screenshots. See testProject.snapshotPathTemplate for details.
Configuration for the expect(page).toHaveScreenshot() method.
toMatchAriaSnapshot Object
(optional)
pathTemplate string
(optional)
A template controlling location of the aria snapshots. See testProject.snapshotPathTemplate for details.
Configuration for the expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() method.
toMatchSnapshot Object
(optional)
threshold number
(optional)
an acceptable perceived color difference between the same pixel in compared images, ranging from 0 (strict) and 1 (lax). "pixelmatch" comparator computes color difference in YIQ color space
and defaults threshold value to 0.2.
maxDiffPixels number
(optional)
an acceptable amount of pixels that could be different, unset by default.
maxDiffPixelRatio number
(optional)
an acceptable ratio of pixels that are different to the total amount of pixels, between 0 and 1 , unset by default.
Configuration for the expect(value).toMatchSnapshot() method.
toPass Object
(optional)
timeout number
(optional)
timeout for toPass method in milliseconds.
intervals Array
<number
> (optional)
probe intervals for toPass method in milliseconds.
Configuration for the expect(value).toPass() method.
Added in: v1.10 testProject.fullyParallel
Playwright Test runs tests in parallel. In order to achieve that, it runs several worker processes that run at the same time. By default, test files are run in parallel. Tests in a single file are run in order, in the same worker process.
You can configure entire test project to concurrently run all tests in all files using this option.
Usage
testProject.fullyParallel
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.grep
Filter to only run tests with a title matching one of the patterns. For example, passing grep: /cart/ should only run tests with "cart" in the title. Also available globally and in the command line
with the -g option. The regular expression will be tested against the string that consists of the project name, the test file name, the test.describe name (if any), the test name and the test tags divided by spaces, e.g. chromium my-test.spec.ts my-suite my-test.
grep option is also useful for tagging tests
.
Usage
testProject.grep
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.grepInvert
Filter to only run tests with a title not matching any of the patterns. This is the opposite of testProject.grep
. Also available globally and in the command line
with the --grep-invert option.
grepInvert option is also useful for tagging tests
.
Usage
testProject.grepInvert
Type
Added in: v1.44 testProject.ignoreSnapshots
Whether to skip snapshot expectations, such as expect(value).toMatchSnapshot() and await expect(page).toHaveScreenshot().
Usage
The following example will only perform screenshot assertions on Chromium.
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ projects: [ { name: 'chromium', use: devices['Desktop Chrome'], }, { name: 'firefox', use: devices['Desktop Firefox'], ignoreSnapshots: true, }, { name: 'webkit', use: devices['Desktop Safari'], ignoreSnapshots: true, }, ],});
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.metadata
Metadata that will be put directly to the test report serialized as JSON.
Usage
testProject.metadata
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.name
Project name is visible in the report and during test execution.
warning
Playwright executes the configuration file multiple times. Do not dynamically produce non-stable values in your configuration.
Usage
testProject.name
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.outputDir
The output directory for files created during test execution. Defaults to <package.json-directory>/test-results.
This directory is cleaned at the start. When running a test, a unique subdirectory inside the testProject.outputDir is created, guaranteeing that test running in parallel do not conflict. This directory can be accessed by testInfo.outputDir and testInfo.outputPath() .
Here is an example that uses testInfo.outputPath() to create a temporary file.
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';import fs from 'fs';test('example test', async ({}, testInfo) => { const file = testInfo.outputPath('temporary-file.txt'); await fs.promises.writeFile(file, 'Put some data to the file', 'utf8');});
Use testConfig.outputDir to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.outputDir
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.repeatEach
The number of times to repeat each test, useful for debugging flaky tests.
Use testConfig.repeatEach to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.repeatEach
Type
Added in: v1.45 testProject.respectGitIgnore
Whether to skip entries from .gitignore when searching for test files. By default, if neither testConfig.testDir
nor testProject.testDir
are explicitly specified, Playwright will ignore any test files matching .gitignore entries. This option allows to override that behavior.
Usage
testProject.respectGitIgnore
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.retries
The maximum number of retry attempts given to failed tests. Learn more about test retries .
Use test.describe.configure() to change the number of retries for a specific file or a group of tests.
Use testConfig.retries to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.retries
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.snapshotDir
The base directory, relative to the config file, for snapshot files created with toMatchSnapshot. Defaults to testProject.testDir
.
The directory for each test can be accessed by testInfo.snapshotDir and testInfo.snapshotPath() .
This path will serve as the base directory for each test file snapshot directory. Setting snapshotDir to 'snapshots', the testInfo.snapshotDir
would resolve to snapshots/a.spec.js-snapshots.
Usage
testProject.snapshotDir
Type
Added in: v1.28 testProject.snapshotPathTemplate
This option configures a template controlling location of snapshots generated by expect(page).toHaveScreenshot() , expect(locator).toMatchAriaSnapshot() and expect(value).toMatchSnapshot() .
You can configure templates for each assertion separately in testConfig.expect .
Usage
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ testDir: './tests', // Single template for all assertions snapshotPathTemplate: '{testDir}/__screenshots__/{testFilePath}/{arg}{ext}', // Assertion-specific templates expect: { toHaveScreenshot: { pathTemplate: '{testDir}/__screenshots__{/projectName}/{testFilePath}/{arg}{ext}', }, toMatchAriaSnapshot: { pathTemplate: '{testDir}/__snapshots__/{testFilePath}/{arg}{ext}', }, },});
Type
Details
The value might include some "tokens" that will be replaced with actual values during test execution.
Consider the following file structure:
playwright.config.tstests/└── page/ └── page-click.spec.ts
And the following page-click.spec.ts that uses toHaveScreenshot() call:
page-click.spec.ts
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';test.describe('suite', () => { test('test should work', async ({ page }) => { await expect(page).toHaveScreenshot(['foo', 'bar', 'baz.png']); });});
The list of supported tokens:
{arg} - Relative snapshot path without extension. This comes from the arguments passed to toHaveScreenshot(), toMatchAriaSnapshot() or toMatchSnapshot(); if called without arguments, this will be an auto-generated snapshot name.
foo/bar/baz{ext} - Snapshot extension (with the leading dot).
.png{platform} - The value of process.platform.{projectName} - Project's file-system-sanitized name, if any.
'' (empty string).{snapshotDir} - Project's testProject.snapshotDir
.
/home/playwright/tests (since snapshotDir is not provided in config, it defaults to testDir){testDir} - Project's testProject.testDir
.
/home/playwright/tests (absolute path since testDir is resolved relative to directory with config){testFileDir} - Directories in relative path from testDir to test file.
page{testFileName} - Test file name with extension.
page-click.spec.ts{testFilePath} - Relative path from testDir to test file.
page/page-click.spec.ts{testName} - File-system-sanitized test title, including parent describes but excluding file name.
suite-test-should-workEach token can be preceded with a single character that will be used only if this token has non-empty value.
Consider the following config:
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ snapshotPathTemplate: '__screenshots__{/projectName}/{testFilePath}/{arg}{ext}', testMatch: 'example.spec.ts', projects: [ { use: { browserName: 'firefox' } }, { name: 'chromium', use: { browserName: 'chromium' } }, ],});
In this config:
<configDir>/__screenshots__/example.spec.ts/....<configDir>/__screenshots__/chromium/example.spec.ts/...snapshotPathTemplate resolves to relative path, it will be resolved relative to configDir."/" can be used as path separators on any platform.Added in: v1.34 testProject.teardown
Name of a project that needs to run after this and all dependent projects have finished. Teardown is useful to cleanup any resources acquired by this project.
Passing --no-deps argument ignores testProject.teardown
and behaves as if it was not specified.
Usage
A common pattern is a "setup" dependency that has a corresponding "teardown":
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ projects: [ { name: 'setup', testMatch: /global.setup\.ts/, teardown: 'teardown', }, { name: 'teardown', testMatch: /global.teardown\.ts/, }, { name: 'chromium', use: devices['Desktop Chrome'], dependencies: ['setup'], }, { name: 'firefox', use: devices['Desktop Firefox'], dependencies: ['setup'], }, { name: 'webkit', use: devices['Desktop Safari'], dependencies: ['setup'], }, ],});
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.testDir
Directory that will be recursively scanned for test files. Defaults to the directory of the configuration file.
Each project can use a different directory. Here is an example that runs smoke tests in three browsers and all other tests in stable Chrome browser.
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ projects: [ { name: 'Smoke Chromium', testDir: './smoke-tests', use: { browserName: 'chromium', } }, { name: 'Smoke WebKit', testDir: './smoke-tests', use: { browserName: 'webkit', } }, { name: 'Smoke Firefox', testDir: './smoke-tests', use: { browserName: 'firefox', } }, { name: 'Chrome Stable', testDir: './', use: { browserName: 'chromium', channel: 'chrome', } }, ],});
Use testConfig.testDir to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.testDir
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.testIgnore
Files matching one of these patterns are not executed as test files. Matching is performed against the absolute file path. Strings are treated as glob patterns.
For example, '**/test-assets/**' will ignore any files in the test-assets directory.
Use testConfig.testIgnore to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.testIgnore
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.testMatch
Only the files matching one of these patterns are executed as test files. Matching is performed against the absolute file path. Strings are treated as glob patterns.
By default, Playwright looks for files matching the following glob pattern: **/*.@(spec|test).?(c|m)[jt]s?(x). This means JavaScript or TypeScript files with ".test" or ".spec" suffix, for example login-screen.wrong-credentials.spec.ts.
Use testConfig.testMatch to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.testMatch
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.timeout
Timeout for each test in milliseconds. Defaults to 30 seconds.
This is a base timeout for all tests. Each test can configure its own timeout with test.setTimeout() . Each file or a group of tests can configure the timeout with test.describe.configure() .
Use testConfig.timeout to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.timeout
Type
Added in: v1.10 testProject.use
Options for all tests in this project, for example testOptions.browserName . Learn more about configuration and see available options .
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ projects: [ { name: 'Chromium', use: { browserName: 'chromium', }, }, ],});
Use testConfig.use to change this option for all projects.
Usage
testProject.use
Type
Added in: v1.52 testProject.workers
The maximum number of concurrent worker processes to use for parallelizing tests from this project. Can also be set as percentage of logical CPU cores, e.g. '50%'.
This could be useful, for example, when all tests from a project share a single resource like a test account, and therefore cannot be executed in parallel. Limiting workers to one for such a project will prevent simultaneous use of the shared resource.
Note that the global testConfig.workers limit applies to the total number of worker processes. However, Playwright will limit the number of workers used for this project by the value of testProject.workers .
By default, there is no limit per project. See testConfig.workers for the default of the total worker limit.
Usage
playwright.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@playwright/test';export default defineConfig({ workers: 10, // total workers limit projects: [ { name: 'runs in parallel', }, { name: 'one at a time', workers: 1, // workers limit for this project }, ],});
Type