Generate tutorial screenshots or screencasts using tests

[tarasglek]

This seems like it would enable us to kill 2 birds with one stone:

1. UI test
2. Produce screenshots for tutorials and videos

https://docs.cypress.io/guides/guides/screenshots-and-videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9Br8QSYgc&t=391s

[humphd]

I'm a huge fan of Playwright for e2e and visual testing vs. cypress.

[tarasglek]

what's wrong with cypress here? Eg how can one be in favor of playwright

playwright is just a framework to control browser? cypress is much higher level

update: maybe i don't have playwright vs cypress right in my head

[tarasglek]

Actually I think I got it right. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comprehensive-comparison-cypress-playwright-vane-terziski/

[tarasglek]

I'm curious how you think about positioning of playwright vs cypress.

[humphd]

I've had to use both a bunch, and I have often run into limitations with Cypress that I managed to fix easily with Playwright (e.g., testing auth flows with many redirects).

I think I've just come to appreciate the deep tooling support (e.g., time-travel UI Mode), how it easily integrates with CI (e.g., easily record videos on failures in GitHub Actions), and how they run their open source project (e.g., videos per release).

[tarasglek]

if i understand it right, it basically it boils down to "once you hit a limit in cypress, you gotta switch tool", "playwright is low level to enough to let you do whatever"