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A Suggestion To Run Playwright Tests in a Continuous Testing Server

End-to-end test Automation fails if the team does not run the entire test suite frequently. A Continuous Testing Server is essential for serious teams.

4 min readMar 26, 2025

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As I predicted last year, Playwright’s Download Count now Exceeded Cypress. In my article “Exit Strategy for Cypress Testers(some might thank me if they had followed my advice years ago), I suggested teams upgrade to Selenium WebDriver or Playwright. Of course, the best option is W3C standard-compliant Selenium WebDriver + RSpec.

Selenium WebDriver is Still the Best Web Test Automation Framework in 2024, two recent independent surveys yielded a similar result

However, I understand that for many who are experiencing difficulties with Cypress test automation, migrating to Playwright is much easier to get management’s approval. (Human factors)

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There are plenty of articles and video tutorials explaining how Playwright is better than Cypress…

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Zhimin Zhan
Zhimin Zhan

Written by Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.

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