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vitalets / playwright-bdd

BDD testing with Playwright runner

https://vitalets.github.io/playwright-bdd/

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Limitations #174

Open viktor-silakov opened 1 month ago

viktor-silakov commented 1 month ago

Hello, I'm interested in using the playwright-bdd library for my project. Before I start, could you please tell me if there are any significant limitations or restrictions I should be aware of? Thank you!

vitalets commented 1 month ago

Hi @viktor-silakov

General points to be considered:

supported Playwright versions (>= 1.35 at the time of writing)
usage of custom Cucumber formatters/reporters, they may be not compatible with playwright-bdd (although we try to follow cucumber/messages spec)
if there are existing tests, migration may require some refactoring
- If there are existing Cucumber tests, you will need some refactoring of your code. If you use custom Cucumber formatter, it may be not compatible.
- If there are existing Playwright tests, it's easier -> just create separate project in Playwright config and check how it goes.

If possible, share more info about current stack of your project.

viktor-silakov commented 1 month ago

Hi @vitalets

supported Playwright versions (>= 1.35 at the time of writing)

usage of custom Cucumber formatters/reporters, they may be not compatible with playwright-bdd (although we try to follow cucumber/messages spec)

Is it possible to create some adapter which translate from Cucumber format to Playwright

If there are existing Playwright tests, it's easier -> just create separate project in Playwright config and check how it goes.

Plan migration WDIO -> PW, want BDD layer

If possible, share more info about current stack of your project.

Yeah, this is my Visual Testing Tool - Syngrisi, if you are interested you can try this using Пitpod the button is on the project page. I want to rewrite my whole test solution, it's a mess now.

viktor-silakov commented 1 month ago

by the way, do you plan to add test recording via VSCode extension or something?

vitalets commented 1 month ago

Is it possible to create some adapter which translate from Cucumber format to Playwright

Currently we do the opposite: translate Playwright's reporter output to Cucumber compatible json/messages. It works for all Cucumber built-in formatters. But for custom Cucumber formatters there potentially can be issues.

Yeah, this is my Visual Testing Tool - Syngrisi

Looks interesting!

by the way, do you plan to add test recording via VSCode extension or something?

Do you mean generating tests code while you perform actions in the browser? This ticket can be relevant: https://github.com/vitalets/playwright-bdd/issues/30.