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LambdaTest vs Playwright: What are the differences?
LambdaTest: Perform Cross Browser Testing on 2000+ Real Browsers and Operating System Online. LambdaTest is a cloud-based testing platform and it provides access to a powerful network cloud of 2000+ real browsers and operating system that helps testers in cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility testing; Playwright: Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API (By Microsoft). 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.
LambdaTest and Playwright belong to "Browser Testing" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by LambdaTest are:
- Selenium Web Automation
- Real-time testing of web app on cloud based desktop and mobile browsers
- Test your locally hosted web app using SSH Tunnel feature
On the other hand, Playwright provides the following key features:
- Node library
- Headless supported
- Enables cross-browser web automation
Playwright is an open source tool with 10.9K GitHub stars and 282 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Playwright's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of LambdaTest
- Pocket friendly pricing16
- Good Performance13
- Cross browser testing12
- Integration with Bitbucket12
- Integration with Gitlab12
- Great support11
- Integration with Jira11
- Integration with GitHub11
- Integration with Trello10
- Clean UI and Easy to use10
- Integration with Slack10
- Integration with Asana10
- Pre-installed developer tools8
- Integration with Hive8
- IE and Edge support8
- Local app testing6
- Multiple Browsers6
- Integration with Teamwork5
- Integration with VSTS5
- Real time testing feature is flawless4
- Selenium automation3
- Faster Speed3
- Up-to-date Browser collection3
- Robust Selenium Grid2
- 24/7 Customer Chat Support2
- Real devices1
Pros of Playwright
- Cross browser11
- Open source6
- Test Runner with Playwright/test6
- Promise based6
- Well documented5
- API Testing3
- Execute tests in parallel3
- Context isolation3
- Capture videos, screenshots and other artifacts on fail3
- Integrate your POMs as extensible fixtures2
- Inbuild reporters html,line,dot,json2
- Python Support2
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Cons of LambdaTest
Cons of Playwright
- Less help9
- Does not execute outside of browser1
- Node based1