Convert Playwright to k6

Playwright and k6 answer different questions: Playwright verifies browser behavior, while a standard k6 script drives HTTP traffic at load. QualityMax extracts Playwright request-context calls and page.goto() URLs into a k6 starting point; it does not make browser interactions equivalent to protocol-level load.

Convert a Playwright API test

In Performance, choose Convert to k6 and either select an existing Playwright automation script or paste JavaScript with Playwright (JavaScript) selected. Choose the target test type, convert, and review every note and unsupported feature before saving.

Before: Playwright request test

import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';

test('lists products', async ({ request }) => {
  const response = await request.get('https://staging.example.com/api/products');
  expect(response.ok()).toBeTruthy();
});

After: runnable k6 JavaScript

import http from 'k6/http';
import { check, sleep } from 'k6';

export const options = {
  stages: [{ duration: '1m', target: 5 }],
  thresholds: {
    http_req_failed: ['rate<0.01'],
    http_req_duration: ['p(95)<500'],
  },
};

export default function () {
  const response = http.get('https://staging.example.com/api/products');
  check(response, { 'status is 200': (result) => result.status === 200 });
  sleep(1);
}

Run with k6 run products-api.js after approving the target and load.

Keep both tests

Retain the Playwright test for DOM assertions, accessibility, browser state, downloads, visual behavior, and multi-page flows. In the k6 script, manually restore headers, authentication, request bodies, response correlation, and domain-specific checks. A converted page.goto() represents an HTTP request, not a rendered-browser performance measurement.

Read performance testing for load safety and execution for test-run evidence.