We’re heavy e2e monitoring users here at Checkly and always experiment with how to architect our tests the best way. Over the past months, we’ve settled on a few workflows that make it much easier to spin up new tests, avoid code duplication, and make the entire test setup easier to manage.…
We are announcing Performance and Error tracing features for all Playwright-based browser checks. This means Checkly now collects: network traces, Web Vitals, console logs and generates screenshots on every error.…
How does Cypress compare to Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO and Selenium, speed-wise? We ran our own benchmark to find out.…
Which one executes faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.…
We are really excited to announce that you can now use Playwright in your browser checks for active monitoring. The popular Puppeteer Recorder Chrome extension also supports Playwright now and is renamed to Headless Recorder. This was on our public roadmap and cooking for some time now and we're glad…
After weeks of writing, researching and hopefully enough proofreading, we just launched a living collection of practical guides on leveraging headless browser tools (starting with Puppeteer and Playwright) for testing, monitoring, scraping, performance measuring and more. We called it theheadless.dev. This article is about the different approaches we tried…