Playwright or Selenium? The Modern Approach to UI Test Automation
summary
Benchmarks compare Playwright and Selenium on a four‑case login suite and show real differences not marketing copy a single run completes in 12.54s vs 14.51s and ten repeated runs average 11.882s vs 13.159s Playwright also tops a Checkly 1000‑run study where Cypress is ~3× slower on tiny pages and ~2× slower on complex apps. Playwright delivers browser context per test for millisecond isolation, built‑in auto‑waits, a pytest plugin, and developer tools like Codegen and Trace viewer that make failures reproducible and migration practical.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00UI test automation intro
- 1:48What is Playwright
- 3:58Performance comparison with Selenium
- 6:13Playwright real-world
- 9:09Playwright features
- 13:43Debugging with Trace Viewer
- 15:56Selenium to Playwright
- 17:41Adoption challenges
- 19:05Conclusion
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