Playwright

Debugging Commands

Debug Playwright tests using the Playwright Inspector, VS Code debugger, and console logs.

9 commands

Pro Tips

Use page.pause() to add breakpoints in your tests

Set PWDEBUG=1 to open Inspector on every test

Commands

Debug mode

$ npx playwright test --debug

Run with Playwright Inspector.

Debug environment

$ PWDEBUG=1 npx playwright test

Enable debug mode via env var.

Debug console

$ PWDEBUG=console npx playwright test

Debug with console output.

Pause in test

$ await page.pause();

Add breakpoint in test code.

Slow motion

$ npx playwright test --headed --slowmo=500

Run tests in slow motion.

Set global timeout

$ npx playwright test --timeout=60000

Set timeout for all tests (60s).

View trace file

$ npx playwright show-trace trace.zip

Open trace viewer for debugging.

Multiple reporters

$ npx playwright test --reporter=html --reporter=json

Output multiple report formats.

Stop on failures

$ npx playwright test --max-failures=5

Stop after specified number of failures.