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Selenium vs Playwright: What are the differences?
What is Selenium? Web Browser Automation. 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.
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.
Selenium and Playwright can be categorized as "Browser Testing" tools.
Selenium and Playwright are both open source tools. It seems that Selenium with 17.3K GitHub stars and 5.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Playwright with 10.9K GitHub stars and 282 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
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 Selenium
- Automates browsers173
- Testing154
- Essential tool for running test automation101
- Record-Playback24
- Remote Control24
- Data crawling8
- Supports end to end testing7
- Functional testing6
- Easy set up6
- The Most flexible monitoring system4
- End to End Testing3
- Easy to integrate with build tools3
- Comparing the performance selenium is faster than jasm2
- Record and playback2
- Compatible with Python2
- Easy to scale2
- Integration Tests2
- Integrated into Selenium-Jupiter framework0
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Cons of Playwright
- Less help12
- Node based3
- Does not execute outside of browser2
Cons of Selenium
- Flaky tests8
- Slow as needs to make browser (even with no gui)4
- Update browser drivers1
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