🔔 Update (September 2025):
Playwright Workspaces and Azure App Testing are now Generally Available!
These powerful tools join Azure Load Testing, which was already GA, to provide a comprehensive suite for scalable, end-to-end app validation on Azure.

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Azure App Testing enables developers and QA teams to run large-scale functional and performance tests to pinpoint issues in their applications, across frameworks like Playwright, JMeter, or Locust. It brings together two powerful testing capabilities—Azure Load Testing and Microsoft Playwright Testing—into a single hub in the Azure Portal, providing a consistent experience for resource provisioning, access control, and consolidated billing. With Azure App Testing, our goal is to help you spend less time managing infrastructure and more time harnessing AI-driven test automation to boost quality and innovation.

Key Benefits

• AI-driven testing: Accelerate test creation and insights with AI-powered tooling.
• Limitless scale: Simulate real-world traffic from multiple regions with load tests, and run highly parallel, cross-browser end-to-end web tests.
• Infrastructure free testing: Azure handles provisioning, scaling, and maintenance so you can focus purely on quality.

Core Capabilities

With Azure App Testing, developer and QA teams can provision, manage, and pay for both Load Testing and Playwright Workspaces under a single umbrella.

Load Testing

Load Testing in Azure App Testing enables teams to simulate high-scale traffic using JMeter or Locust to uncover performance bottlenecks:

• AI-powered test authoring in VS Code with GitHub Copilot Agent mode .
• AI-driven insights that detect issues and recommend fixes.
• Multi-region traffic simulation with support for public/private endpoints.
• Quick URL-based testsin the Azure Portal—no scripts required.

Playwright Workspaces

Playwright’s rich tooling—VS Code extension, Codegen, and Playwright MCP with AI-assisted support—powers your test authoring. Playwright Workspaces builds on that by running scalable, cross-browser end-to-end web tests without managing infrastructure:

• Cloud-hosted parallel execution to speed up end-to-end test validation and feedback loops.
• Multi‑OS & browser support across Windows and Linux, and all major browsers (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit).
• CI integration for continuous testing and early regression detection.

🚀 For a deeper look at the Playwright ecosystem—covering tooling, AI capabilities, and practical workflows—check out The Complete Playwright End-to-End Story: Tools, AI, and Real-World Workflows.

Get Started with Azure App Testing

1. Open the Azure Portal and search for Azure App Testing.
2. Select Azure App Testing.
3. Create workspaces for either Azure Load Testing or Playwright Workspaces.
4. Begin authoring and executing tests at scale to drive accelerated development workflows.

Load Testing Quickstarts

• Create and run a load test with GitHub Copilot in VS Code
• Create and run a URL-based load test
• Run a load test using an existing JMeter script
• Run a load test using an existing Locust script
• Automate load tests in Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions

Playwright Workspaces Quickstarts

• Run end-to-end web tests at scale
• Set up continuous testing in your CI workflow

For Existing Customers

Azure Load Testing users

• No changes: Your resources and tests continue working as before—now visible within the Azure App Testing hub.
• Same pricing and management: Features and billing remain unchanged.

Microsoft Playwright Testing users

• Migrate to Playwright Workspaces: To take advantage of the unified experience in Azure App Testing, we recommend migrating your existing Microsoft Playwright Testing (Preview) workloads to Playwright Workspaces in Azure App Testing. See our migration guide for step-by-step instructions and best practices.

Learn more about Azure App Testing

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