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Playwright vs. Selenium – Who Wins and Why?
When it comes to automating functional test cases, Selenium is still one of the most popular tools even today. It offers broad support for browsers and programming languages, is open-source, and provides a large ecosystem of plugins and integrations with other tools such as JUnit. However, over the past few years, Microsoft’s open-source tool Playwright, released in 2020, has established itself as a serious alternative to Selenium and is increasingly being used in projects. In this article, we’ll compare both tools, evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and see how they perform in different categories.