Correcting Wrong ‘Playwright’s Advantage over Selenium” Part 7: “Playwright supports a range of Testing Types, e.g. API Testing”
Don’t Compare Apples to Oranges. Focus on real E2E UI Testing, which Playwright is still far behind raw Selenium.
8 min readSep 9, 2024
Continue to correct the 7th 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.” 👎🏽 (coming)
- “Playwright ARIA locator support” 👎🏽
- “Playwright has frequent releases” 👎🏽 (coming)