Playwright
Jagan
Aug 9, 2023
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CommentsWhat is Playwright?
It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.
Playwright is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Node libraryHeadless supportedEnables cross-browser web automationImproved automated UI testing
Playwright Pros & Cons
Pros of Playwright
- ✓Cross browser
- ✓Open source
- ✓Test Runner with Playwright/test
- ✓Promise based
- ✓Well documented
- ✓API Testing
- ✓Execute tests in parallel
- ✓Integrate your POMs as extensible fixtures
- ✓Capture videos, screenshots and other artifacts on fail
- ✓ Python Support
Cons of Playwright
- ✗Less help
- ✗Node based
- ✗Does not execute outside of browser
Playwright Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Playwright?
Selenium
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
BrowserStack
BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.
Karma
Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.
