E2E Test Automation Anti-Pattern: Headless Browser Testing

It's not worth a tiny speed gain, and it also has issues.

Zhimin Zhan
8 min readApr 18, 2024

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This is an article in the E2E Test Automation Anti-Pattern series.

Some JS testers, especially Cypress and Playwright ones, will be surprised by the title, as headless is their default mode.

What is Headless Browser

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.