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WebdriverIO vs Playwright: What are the differences?
What is WebdriverIO? Webdriver/Selenium 2.0 JavaScript bindings for Node.js. WebdriverIO lets you control a browser or a mobile application with just a few lines of code. Your test code will look simple, concise and easy to read.
What is 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.
WebdriverIO and Playwright can be categorized as "Browser Testing" tools.
Some of the features offered by WebdriverIO are:
- Extendable
- Support for the WebDriver specification as well as to Appium
- Easy Test Setup
On the other hand, Playwright provides the following key features:
- Node library
- Headless supported
- Enables cross-browser web automation
WebdriverIO and Playwright are both open source tools. Playwright with 10.9K GitHub stars and 282 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than WebdriverIO with 5.58K GitHub stars and 1.63K GitHub forks.
we are having one web application developed in Reacts.js. in the application, we have only 4 to 5 pages that we need to test. I am having experience in selenium with java. Please suggets which tool I should use. and why ............................ ............................ .............................
with the help of selenium we can automate react js for functional testing
Hi, I am starting out to test an application that is currently being developed - FE: React. BE: Node JS. I want the framework to be able to test all UI scenarios (from simple to complex) and also have the capability to test APIs. I also need to run tests across all OSs and Browsers (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS). I have also looked into react-testing-library and @TestProject.io. Any advice you can give as to which framework would be best and why would be so much appreciated! Thank you!!
You should also definitely look into Playwright, which is a new automation tool from Microsoft building on top of the Puppeteer experience and trying to bring this experience in the cross browser space - very exciting project. Great team. Also CodeceptJS as already Playwright support which at a ton of valuable features on top of Playwright, give it a go!
I'm also looking for the same, FE: React & BE: NodeJS. Cypress won't help as it lacks cross-browser testing, it doesn't support all the browsers. I'm still investigating it, but looks like WebdriverIO may fulfil what I'm looking for - Cross-browser testing, integration with CI/CD, running it as a docker service, good support on assertions & reporting of test results. Let me know if you found any information on any of the above mentioned points.
Hi Esther, if you really need cross OS and cross device automation Cypress wont help, with WebdriverIO you can do it … and check out CodeceptJS, which is a wrapper around several frameworks (like WebdriverIO) and will support future players (currently for example upcoming Playwright) as well.
Pros of Playwright
- Cross browser13
- Open source10
- Test Runner with Playwright/test9
- Well documented7
- Promise based7
- Execute tests in parallel5
- API Testing5
- Integrate your POMs as extensible fixtures5
- Python Support4
- Capture videos, screenshots and other artifacts on fail4
- Context isolation3
- Inbuild reporters html,line,dot,json3
- Fastest1
Pros of WebdriverIO
- Various integrations to vendors like Sauce Labs11
- Open Source10
- Great community8
- Easy to setup7
- Best solution for broad browser support4
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Cons of Playwright
- Less help12
- Node based3
- Does not execute outside of browser2
Cons of WebdriverIO
- High maintenance8
