Correcting Wrong “Playwright’s Advantage over Selenium” Part 4: “Playwright has a native test runner”

It is more a Con, not a Pro.

Zhimin Zhan
6 min readFeb 8, 2024

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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:

Table of Contents:
· Claim 4: “Playwright has native playwright tests”
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I don’t like “npx playwright test” runner
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There are good reasons why most automation frameworks do not provide their runners.
Why should Automation and Test Syntax Frameworks remain loosely coupled?
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The

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Zhimin Zhan

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