Agora Next Updates: E2E Testing Migration to Playwright
The development team completed a major migration from Cypress to Playwright for end-to-end testing, implementing mocked Web3 providers for more reliable test execution. The changes span 38 files with over 2,000 lines added and 1,200 removed.
Duration: PT1M47S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Agora Next Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Agora Next Updates
- Published: 2026-04-15T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT1M47S
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Good morning. This is your Agora Next Updates for April 15th, 2026.
Atomauro merged a significant testing infrastructure overhaul with pull request 1446, migrating the entire end-to-end testing suite from Cypress to Playwright. This migration introduces a mocked Web3 architecture that eliminates dependencies on external RPC endpoints, addressing reliability issues that have plagued…
The changes are substantial - 38 files modified with over 2,100 lines added and more than 1,200 removed. The new Playwright framework brings enhanced parallelization capabilities and trace viewing functionality. Most importantly, the implementation includes local mock providers and fixtures, including CPLS datasets,…
All Cypress-related files have been removed, including the configuration, test files, and support commands. In their place, a new Playwright configuration has been established along with updated package dependencies. The migration also includes modifications to delegate-related API functions to support the new…
The pull request received one approval and generated three comments during review, with collaboration from Sudheer contributing to the final implementation.
What's next: Teams should…
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