Playwright
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Pros
- Playwright is fine?
- I spent some time working with Codeception/Selenium with PHP, but in the past few years I adopted the modern stack (Cypress/Playwright).
- Just use playwright or puppeteer. Follow the documented best practices, use testids as needed, etc. It’s not hard to set up and maintain
- For all my dislike of Microsoft shenanigans, they've done something right with Playwright
- One thing I'd add to your requirements list - make sure whatever you pick has good CI/CD integration and can handle parallel execution well with 50 engineers. Playwright excels here.
Cons
- The issue I have had with Playwright is the very difficult configuration to make it work with the existing Vite config. I couldn't find a clear guide on it.
- Like you've tried selenium/playwright etc. but maintenance isn't worth the scripting?
Sentiment
11 positive (85%) · 1 mixed (8%) · 1 negative (8%)
Trust + time weighted score: +78% · raw score 77%
What redditors said (10 of 13)
Playwright is fine?
I spent some time working with Codeception/Selenium with PHP, but in the past few years I adopted the modern stack (Cypress/Playwright).
Just use playwright or puppeteer. Follow the documented best practices, use testids as needed, etc. It’s not hard to set up and maintain
For all my dislike of Microsoft shenanigans, they've done something right with Playwright
The issue I have had with Playwright is the very difficult configuration to make it work with the existing Vite config. I couldn't find a clear guide on it.
One thing I'd add to your requirements list - make sure whatever you pick has good CI/CD integration and can handle parallel execution well with 50 engineers. Playwright excels here.
Backend: FastAPI + Playwright for reliable PDF generation
in my side project I love doing that :D Just clicking through a user flow, taking screenshots along a way.
We evaluated multiple web test frameworks and ended up with playwright.
We evaluated multiple web test frameworks and ended up with playwright. ... with modern tooling, I do not think you need [POM], i.e. you can just pick a playwright selector from an HTML snapshot.
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