Test mobile compatibility with Playwright emulation

Learn how to emulate real devices in Playwright tests on BrowserStack Automate

When using Playwright for test automation, pass the device parameteres to simulate real device browser behaviour to test your application.

Steps to run Playwright tests on device mode

The steps to pass device parameters are same as the ones you perform for integration. The only difference is that you have to specify Playwright emulation configurations under playwrightConfigOptions in the browserstack.yml file.

For example, you may only want to specify that the test runs on iPhone 6 and prefer a predefined configuration for the test. In that case, update the configuration in browserstack.yml as follows:

The configuration for iPhone 6 in deviceDescriptions.json are used for device simulation in the test.

However, if you want to use a custom configuration, update browserstack.yml as shown here: