Correcting Wrong “Playwright’s Advantage over Selenium” Part 4: “Playwright has a native test runner”
It is more a Con, not a Pro.
6 min readFeb 8, 2024
Continue to correct the fourth wrong claim in this YouTube video, “Playwright vs Selenium: What Advantages Make Playwright the Winner in Automation Testing Battle 🏆”.
This article series:
- “Playwright is Modern and Faster than Selenium” 😒
- “Playwright has Parallel Execution Support” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has Native Auto-Waiting Mechanism” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has a native test runner” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has native HTML Reporters” 👎🏽
- “Playwright Features Can be Configured in one Configuration” 👎🏽
- “Playwright supports a range of Testing Types, e.g. API Testing, Component Testing, …” 👎🏽
- “Playwright UI Mode, CodeGen, Debugging support.” 👎🏽
- “Playwright ARIA locator support” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has frequent releases” 👎🏽
- Wrap Up
Table of Contents:
· Claim 4: “Playwright has native playwright tests”
· I don’t like “npx playwright test” runner
· There are good reasons why most automation frameworks do not provide…