Correcting Wrong “Playwright’s Advantage over Selenium” Part 1: “Playwright is Modern and Faster than Selenium”
New ≠ Modern ≠ Better. Faster? I haven’t seen a truly successful Playwright implementation with a large suite yet.
8 min readJan 24, 2024
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Recently, I watched a YouTube video, “Playwright vs Selenium: What Advantages Make Playwright the Winner in Automation Testing Battle 🏆”.
Each of the presenter’s purported “Playwright Advantages” is either wrong or irrelevant in the context of real web test automation. I will elaborate on each of these points in this article series:
- “Playwright is Modern and Faster than Selenium” 😒
- “Playwright has Parallel Execution Support” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has Native Auto-Waiting Mechanism” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has a native test runner” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has native HTML Reporters” 👎🏽
- “Playwright Features Can be Configured in one Configuration” 👎🏽
- “Playwright supports a range of Testing Types, e.g. API Testing…
