Improving Playwright Sharding - Currents Orchestration Example

Demo video

Available in the recent beta version npm i @currents/playwright@beta (@currents/[email protected])

Configuring Batch Size

It is recommended to set batchSize = workers

• Use --pwc-batch-size CLI params, e.g.: pwc-p --pwc-batch-size=3
• Set environment variable CURRENTS_BATCH_SIZE e.g.: CURRENTS_BATCH_SIZE=3
• Set the values in currents.confg.ts, e.g.: orchestration.batchSize: 3

Suite Composition

• 40 long-running tests: 110-120s
• 40 short tests: 10-30s

Playwright Sharding

• workers: 2
• machines: 5
• overall duration: 15m 38s 🐌

Currents Batched Orchestration

• batch size: 2
• workers: 2
• machines: 5
• overall duration: 9m 17s (~41% improvement) 🏎️