Playwright · Middle · Question 15 of 75

Why prefer a setup project over `globalSetup`?

1globalSetup was removed from Playwright
2It has fixtures, traces and shows in the report
3It runs faster because it skips the browser

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Correct answer: It has fixtures, traces and shows in the report

Explanation

globalSetup is a plain function: no fixtures, no traces, and failures are harder to debug. A setup project is a normal test with all the tooling.

Further reading

Playwright: Global setup and teardown ↗

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