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Pull request overview
This PR simplifies the browser automation guidance to align with the updated policy by recommending Playwright as the single tool for new browser automation test frameworks, while treating Cypress/Selenium as legacy.
Changes:
- Removed detailed guidance for Cypress and Selenium (including the tool selection guidance and capability comparison table).
- Replaced the page content with a short Playwright-only recommendation and links to Playwright docs and the UKHO Playwright template.
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| |Screenshots on failure|Yes (Built in)| Yes (configurable)|Yes (Not built in)| | ||
| |Record Test|Yes (Built in)|Yes ([configurable](https://playwright.dev/docs/videos))|Yes (Not built in / not easy to implement)| | ||
| |Full DOM recording|Yes|Yes ([configurable](https://playwright.dev/docs/trace-viewer))|No| | ||
| Playwright's [documentation is excellent](https://playwright.dev/), the tool is being continually developed and the community is growing. See our [Playwright Page Object Model Template](https://github.com/UKHO/playwright-template) for advice on how to use Playwright in a UKHO project. Playwright scripts can be written in either C# or Typescript, and this template repo contains examples of each. |
| |Screenshots on failure|Yes (Built in)| Yes (configurable)|Yes (Not built in)| | ||
| |Record Test|Yes (Built in)|Yes ([configurable](https://playwright.dev/docs/videos))|Yes (Not built in / not easy to implement)| | ||
| |Full DOM recording|Yes|Yes ([configurable](https://playwright.dev/docs/trace-viewer))|No| | ||
| Playwright's [documentation is excellent](https://playwright.dev/), the tool is being continually developed and the community is growing. See our [Playwright Page Object Model Template](https://github.com/UKHO/playwright-template) for advice on how to use Playwright in a UKHO project. Playwright scripts can be written in either C# or Typescript, and this template repo contains examples of each. |
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Trimmed down browser automation guidance so it only recommends Playwright, following policy review 11/5/2026