What 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 Browser Testing category of a tech stack.
Playwright is an open source tool with 61.1K GitHub stars and 3.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Playwright's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Playwright?
Companies
82 companies reportedly use Playwright in their tech stacks, including Shelf, DevOps, and Hivebrite.
Developers
293 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Playwright.
Playwright Integrations
BrowserStack, Checkly, Testomat, Next.js Enterprise Boilerplate, and Root Cause are some of the popular tools that integrate with Playwright. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Playwright.
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Decisions about Playwright
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Playwright in their tech stack.
jsettipalli
We are planning to automate our test cases for the application written in AngularJS. Which tool would you suggest we use for automation, Playwright or WebdriverIO?
Lily Goykhman
Engineering management at SB · | 3 upvotes · 25.4K views
Test automation - Puppeteer is used currently, just rudimentary stuff, but considering the better choices with Playwright?
Playwright's Features
- Node library
- Headless supported
- Enables cross-browser web automation
- Improved automated UI testing
Playwright Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Playwright?
Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
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.
Protractor
Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.
Cypress
Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website.
TestCafe
It is a pure node.js end-to-end solution for testing web apps. It takes care of all the stages: starting browsers, running tests, gathering test results and generating reports.
