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Playwright by Microsoft is the newest addition to the Headless Browser Testing frameworks in popular use. Built by the same team which created Puppeteer (Headless Browser Testing Framework for Google Chrome), Playwright too is an open-source NodeJS based framework. However, it provides wider coverage for cross-browser testing by supporting Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit, while Puppeteer supports Chrome and Chromium browsers only. Playwright is compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS, and can be integrated with major CI/CD servers such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipeline, TravisCI, etc. in addition to the testing frameworks like Jest, Jasmine, Mocha. Besides JavaScript.