Update browser testing dependencies to latest stable versions

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Update browser testing dependencies to latest stable versions

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Updated Selenium and Playwright to latest stable releases.

Description

Version bumps for E2E testing dependencies:

Selenium (4.38.0 → 4.40.0)

• SeleniumWebDriverVersion in eng/Versions.props
• SeleniumSupportVersion in eng/Versions.props

Playwright (1.56.0 → 1.57.0)

• MicrosoftPlaywrightVersion in eng/Versions.props
• Docker image mcr.microsoft.com/playwright/dotnet:v1.57.0-jammy-amd64 in src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile

Playwright package and Docker image versions now aligned.

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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

This PR updates browser testing dependencies to their latest stable versions as part of routine maintenance for E2E testing infrastructure.

Changes:

• Updated Selenium WebDriver and Support packages from 4.38.0 to 4.40.0
• Updated Playwright package from 1.56.0 to 1.57.0
• Aligned Playwright Docker image to v1.57.0 to match the package version

Reviewed changes

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

File	Description
eng/Versions.props	Updated version properties for Selenium (4.38.0 → 4.40.0) and Playwright (1.56.0 → 1.57.0) packages
src/Components/benchmarkapps/Wasm.Performance/dockerfile	Updated Playwright Docker image to v1.57.0-jammy-amd64 to align with 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?)?

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Hey @dotnet/aspnet-build, looks like this PR is something you want to take a look at.