Microsoft Playwright Testing Azure App Testing (Playwright Workspaces & Load Testing)
Legacy names Microsoft Playwright Testing, Azure Load Testing (Standalone)
Unified cloud testing suite combining parallel cross-browser functional testing and AI browser automation in Playwright Workspaces with high-scale Apache JMeter and Locust performance testing in Azure Load Testing.
Naming timeline
- Azure Load Testing (Standalone)
Launched as a managed Apache JMeter cloud load-testing service under the 'Microsoft.LoadTestService/loadTests' ARM resource type.
- Microsoft Playwright Testing
Introduced managed cloud browser execution and reporting for end-to-end Playwright test suites.
- Azure App Testing (Playwright Workspaces & Load Testing)Current name
Renamed Microsoft Playwright Testing to Playwright Workspaces and unified it with Azure Load Testing under Azure App Testing.
What is Microsoft Playwright Testing called now?
Microsoft Playwright Testing is now called Azure App Testing (Playwright Workspaces & Load Testing), with the latest change in May 2025 (Service Unification & Rebrand to Playwright Workspaces). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Azure Load Testing (Standalone). Unified cloud testing suite combining parallel cross-browser functional testing and AI browser automation in Playwright Workspaces with high-scale Apache JMeter and Locust performance testing in Azure Load Testing. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- Azure App Testing
- Playwright Workspaces
- Azure Load Testing
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*) | Microsoft.LoadTestService/loadTests Microsoft.LoadTestService/playwrightWorkspaces Microsoft.LoadTestService/quotas |
|---|---|
| Azure CLI (az) / PowerShell | az load az load test az load test-run |
| Entra ID / Azure RBAC Roles | Load Test Owner Load Test Contributor Load Test Reader |
| Terraform Resources (azurerm_*) | azurerm_load_test azapi_resource (Microsoft.LoadTestService/playwrightWorkspaces) |
Both Azure Load Testing ('Microsoft.LoadTestService/loadTests') and Playwright Workspaces ('Microsoft.LoadTestService/playwrightWorkspaces') operate under the active 'Microsoft.LoadTestService' ARM Resource Provider.
Notes & disambiguation
- Launched in public preview as Microsoft Playwright Testing in October 2023 alongside Azure Load Testing (GA February 2023), Microsoft rebranded Microsoft Playwright Testing to Playwright Workspaces in 2025 and unified both services under the Azure App Testing umbrella.
- The Azure product page ('azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/load-testing') and Microsoft Learn documentation ('learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-testing/') now present Azure App Testing as the single hub for Azure Load Testing and Playwright Workspaces.
- Both capabilities share the 'Microsoft.LoadTestService' ARM Resource Provider namespace ('Microsoft.LoadTestService/loadTests' and 'Microsoft.LoadTestService/playwrightWorkspaces'), preventing breaking changes to existing ARM templates, Azure CLI 'az load' workflows, and 'azurerm_load_test' Terraform resources.
Sources & official documentation
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