Testing

In a previous blog post, I introduced the NuGet package Nwwz.Mvc.Testing. This package was designed to make it possible to make the WebApplicationFactory listen on a rela port to that you can use it with Playwright. The package implements a different WebApplicationFactory that spin up a Kestrel instance instead ot the in-memory TestServer. With the release of .NET 10, this workaround is no longer necessary. Microsoft has introduced a native way to run WebApplicationFactory using Kestrel. ...

One of the recent additions in .NET is that you can now have single file projects. In this article we’ll explore how to use Playwright in such file. TL;DR: Full example at the end of this page. Why? More and more I use Playwright not only for testing but also for small automation scripts and to quickly make demos using it’s handy built-in recorder. Before .NET 10 that would required a C# project, a directory with a csproj file a cs file and the Playwright package installed. ...