Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-microsoft-playwright-testing-ts
https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-typescript/skills/azure-microsoft-playwright-testing-ts
View on GitHubWhat 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