Inspector usage and launch multiple browser tabs using Playwright-Java

Tutorial 4​​ –​​ Inspector​​ usage​​ and​​ launch multiple browser tabs​​ using​​ Playwright-Java

What you will Learn:

  • Usage of ‘Pause’ and Playwright Inspector

  • Multiple Browser Pages/Tabs using single browser instance

  • Code snippets

Usage of ‘Pause’ and Playwright Inspector​​ 

Sometimes we may want to pause our test so that we can either debug or wait for an even to occur etc.​​ 

.pause()​​ method comes handy here, see the​​ method​​ description below​​ 

The below script will launch the browser and then playwright will pause the script

Execute the script, notice below that ‘Playwright Inspector’ is launched​​ and​​ the script pauses and​​ the browser does not close automatically​​ this time

Click the ‘Resume’ button​​ ​​ to continue the script.

The browser closes​​ and the​​ test gets passed​​ 

​​ 

Multiple Browser Pages/Tabs using single browser instance

We can use the​​ same browser instance​​ to launch multiple browser pages. Let us see how.​​ 

We can create a new browser context using ‘newContext’ method as shown below. Also, as can be seen in the description, the browser context will not share cache with other browser contexts

This method returns ‘BrowserContext’

So let us create a ‘context’ variable holding the browser context

Using this context, we can now create a new browse page

So we can write

Now the newPage() methods returns a Page

Let us catch this new page in a variable​​ page1

Similarly let us create 2 more pages using the same browser context

Now we can​​ launch 3 websites on 3 different pages

Save and execute.

Notice below that 3 tabs open

In the above case, all 3 websites were same.

Below we have 3 different sites

Save and execute

Code snippet#1

package com.w2a.pwjava;

 

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

 

import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;

import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType;

import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType.LaunchOptions;

import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;

import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;

 

public class PWTest {

@Test

public void PWFirstTest() {

  Playwright pw = Playwright.create();

  LaunchOptions lop = new LaunchOptions();

  lop.setChannel("msedge");

  lop.setHeadless(false);

 

  BrowserType browsertype = pw.chromium();  

  Browser browser = browsertype.launch(lop);

  

  Page page = browser.newPage();

  page.navigate("https://www.way2automation.com/lifetime-membership-club/");

  page.pause();

  }

 

}

 

Code snippet#2

package com.w2a.pwjava;

 

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

 

import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;

import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserContext;

import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType;

import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType.LaunchOptions;

import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;

import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;

 

public class PWTest {

@Test

public void PWFirstTest() {

  Playwright pw = Playwright.create();

  LaunchOptions lop = new LaunchOptions();

  lop.setChannel("msedge");

  lop.setHeadless(false);

 

  BrowserType browsertype = pw.chromium();  

  Browser browser = browsertype.launch(lop);

  

  BrowserContext context = browser.newContext();

  

  Page page1 = context.newPage();

  Page page2 = context.newPage();

  Page page3 = context.newPage();

  

  page1.navigate("https://www.way2automation.com/lifetime-membership-club/");

  page2.navigate("https://www.bing.com/");

  page3.navigate("https://www.bbc.com/");

  

  page3.pause();

  }

 

}

 

Thank you for reading!

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