Update browser testing dependencies: Selenium 4.40.0, Playwright 1.57.0

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Update browser testing dependencies: Selenium 4.40.0, Playwright 1.57.0

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Update Selenium and Playwright to latest stable versions and fix Selenium 4.40.0 breaking changes.

Description

Updates browser automation dependencies across E2E tests and benchmarking infrastructure:

• Selenium: 4.38.0 → 4.40.0 (Selenium.WebDriver, Selenium.Support)
• Playwright: 1.56.0 → 1.57.0 (NuGet package and Docker image)
• Breaking Change Fix: Updated BiDi namespace imports in E2E test files to address Selenium 4.40.0 API changes

Files modified:

• eng/Versions.props: Package version properties
• src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile: Docker image tag
• src/Components/test/E2ETest/ServerExecutionTests/ServerReconnectionWithoutStateTest.cs: Fixed BiDi namespace import
• src/Components/test/E2ETest/ServerExecutionTests/ServerResumeWithExpiredStateTest.cs: Fixed BiDi namespace import
• src/Components/test/E2ETest/ServerRenderingTests/EnhancedNavigationTest.cs: Fixed BiDi namespace import

Ensures Playwright package version matches Docker image version for consistent benchmark execution environment.

Selenium 4.40.0 Breaking Change: The OpenQA.Selenium.BiDi.Communication namespace was removed as part of Selenium's refactoring to align with W3C WebDriver BiDi standards. Updated all affected test files to use OpenQA.Selenium.BiDi instead.

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Request Browser-Testing Dependencies Update</issue_title>
<issue_description>## Description

Selenium is used in the aspnetcore repo for automated E2E integration testing.
Playwright is used in the aspnetcore repo for some benchmarking apps. We need to ensure the docker file and the package version match.

Instructions

To update the Selenium and Playwright versions, these files need to be updated:

Packages

• Selenium in Versions.props from NuGet:
  • Selenium.WebDriver (Config variable SeleniumWebDriverVersion)
  • Selenium.Support (Config variable SeleniumSupportVersion)
• Ensure Playwright versions match
  • Blazor Wasm benchmarks in src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile (image starts with mcr.microsoft.com)
  • Playwright package version (Config variable PlaywrightVersion)

Actions

Please, open the PR against main branch and include changes to the files listed above.

Also:

• mention @dotnet/aspnet-build in the opened Pull Request - this will be a responsible engineer for changes validation.
• add the build-ops label to the opened Pull Request
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Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes Request Browser-Testing Dependencies Update #65286

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Pull request overview

Updates browser automation dependencies used by E2E tests and benchmark infrastructure to keep tooling current and ensure the Playwright NuGet package version aligns with the Playwright Docker image used for benchmarks.

Changes:

• Bump Selenium.WebDriver and Selenium.Support versions from 4.38.0 to 4.40.0.
• Bump Microsoft.Playwright version from 1.56.0 to 1.57.0.
• Update the Wasm.Performance benchmark Docker image tag to mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/dotnet:v1.57.0-jammy-amd64.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
eng/Versions.props	Updates centralized version properties for Selenium and Playwright packages.
src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile	Updates Playwright Docker base image tag to match the Playwright package version.

[wtgodbe]

D:\a_work\1\s\src\Components\test\E2ETest\ServerExecutionTests\ServerReconnectionWithoutStateTest.cs(14,28): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Communication' does not exist in the namespace 'OpenQA.Selenium.BiDi' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\a_work\1\s\src\Components\test\E2ETest\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.E2ETests.csproj]

Was there an API change in Selenium (in a patch?)?

[halter73]

D:\a_work\1\s\src\Components\test\E2ETest\ServerExecutionTests\ServerReconnectionWithoutStateTest.cs(14,28): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Communication' does not exist in the namespace 'OpenQA.Selenium.BiDi' (are you missing an assembly reference?) [D:\a_work\1\s\src\Components\test\E2ETest\Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.E2ETests.csproj]

Was there an API change in Selenium (in a patch?)?

@copilot Can you track down if there were any breaking API changes to selenium and, if so, react to it in the ServerReconnectionWithoutStateTest?

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D:\a_work\1\s\src\Components\test\E2ETest\ServerExecutionTests\ServerReconnectionWithoutStateTest.cs(14,28): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Communication' does not exist in the namespac...

Yes, Selenium 4.40.0 introduced a breaking change that removed the BiDi.Communication namespace. The fix was to update the using statements from OpenQA.Selenium.BiDi.Communication to OpenQA.Selenium.BiDi in the affected test files. Fixed in 757a7fa.