BrowserStack is proud to announce they are the first cloud test automation platform to support real Android devices on Playwright (in beta).

This means that Playwright tests can now be run on all Android devices available on the BrowserStack Cloud, including hundreds of different device models from various OEMs like Samsung, Google, and more. This allows developers and QA professionals to test mobile web applications more accurately and with greater scalability. The tests are run on a highly scalable cloud of real devices across 19 global data centers instead of unreliable emulators or simulators.

Additionally, the BrowserStack Engineering Team has contributed to the Playwright Open Source codebase, making this innovation available to all Playwright users, whether they choose to execute their tests in-house or on a cloud platform like BrowserStack. This is particularly significant because Playwright’s existing support for Android devices was experimental and had several limitations. The alternative solution was to emulate a mobile view by resizing the viewport, which cannot guarantee accurate testing. Testing on real devices is the only way to guarantee accurate results. The introduction of a client-server model by BrowserStack’s Engineering Team has enabled a new leap forward in real device testing for Playwright users.

Key Features

The key features of this release include support for Google Chrome on all Android devices available on the BrowserStack platform, parallelization for running hundreds of tests concurrently on the BrowserStack cloud, local testing to test websites hosted on a local machine or a dev/staging environment, and debugging to isolate the root cause for every failed bug and test easily, with access to Video Recordings, Screenshots, Text Logs, Console Logs, Network Logs, and more.

To get started with running Playwright Android tests on BrowserStack, users need to add their BrowserStack username and access key to their test script and specify the device they want to test on in the capabilities section of their test script. They can then trigger their tests and debug them on the Automate dashboard.

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