Testing · Senior · Question 20 of 75

What is the difference between Playwright workers and shards?

✓Correct answer: Workers are parallel processes on one machine; shards split the suite across machines
2They are synonyms
3Workers run browsers, shards run assertions

Explanation

Each worker has its own browser; workers are restarted after a failure to keep the environment clean.

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