having used both in real world projects for the past few years... once you get used to Playwright, there is almost like no going back. Is so much cleaner and easier to work with.

I'm very happy to have found your channel and very sad to see there isn't much activity here anymore. I think you have a very unique style of delivery, equally informative and entertaining, which is not something easy to find. Very good video 👍

Awesome video @victor. Great comparison, very well presented. For me Selenium is still my first love for web automation.

Interesting review, i might differ on a few points mentioned... I've been a software developer/tester for 30years, if my life depended on stability and reliability hands down Playright is the winner. Often selenium, especially with newer javascript libraries, angular, react, vue, svelte and others, good luck getting selenium to be reliable. Go back 10 years ago, selenium was fine, but no longer with the virtual Dom... For this reason Playwright, especially with their switch to locators and discouraging ElementHandle, would assert really makes Selenium obsolete. And to be fair, your review was before this, might assert the switch in Playwright was a month or three after your review came out. Can't help thinking of how many "StaleElementExceptions" i get or need retry logic in selenium tests, not so with Playwright.

I humbly request you to please keep posting more of such content and I really loved your presentation style. Keep up the good work.

I see more potential on Playwright in my opinion keep up with them uploads it helps a lot for new devs like me, great video man.

I want to mention that most of the Selenium based frameworks are having really nice features and additions to Selenium library. So working with such framework is making your automation testing efforts easier. So guys please do not only look at Selenium disadvantages or missing features. Most of them are handled in automation frameworks.

I recently ran into a drag and drop issue with selenium when you want to drag an element from a frame to another frame. Actions class simply doesn`t do the job. I then tried playwright which just worked right away. Big plus for playwright

As a user of both Selenium and Playwright at work, I must say Playwright is far superior, much faster, better documentation, and a lot less flaky. Once the Playwright community grows, it will become the industry standard without a doubt.

Playwright is awesome with its test runner. We can do lots of things, visual comparison. Reports with screenshot and video out of the box, and lot of more features. The locator strategy which is huge comparing to selenium.

Hey this video was so much fun to watch. Hope you will produce more videos, you're a great teacher.

Absolutely great explain and show up! 👍 Feeling like i read good article ❤

Excellent video - thanks Victor! I liked that you weigh things up fairly, with just the right amount of detail, and highlight how any choice about which is "better" ultimately has to be up to the viewer (/user)

Information: 10tone of voice, speed, gestures: perfect. new subscriber

this was very educational, thank you so so much for the knowledge and all the effort that was necessary to produce such a video

Great comparison and thanks for the video. Two corrections: First, Selenium also supports PHP language and second, the analogy with Chrome Incognito windows is not precise, since all incognito windows are sharing the same session (between them). Opening a new Incognito window while you are logged in into another incognito window will keep you authenticated. Thanks !

I chose Playwright! ❤👍

Playwright is asynchronous - thats huge advantage

Just found your channel. Excellent Content - Another sub for you sir!

Maestro! Thank you so much for this video! For my current assignment I am looking for the best candidate regarding automated testing tools....this video helps me alot! Thanks! 👍

This is the information I have wanted for a long time. I have been to so many tutorials and sites for learning. You are outstanding for me. Short and relevant info. I salute you for this. Best regards from Sweden.

And Playwright auto-tests almost everything in their repo, so it will be getting better and better without compromising quality and adding new functionality can be done faster in the future with same quality instead of doing less and less frequent releasing. Thanks for the video!

Good informative content by the comparison. It is really awesome to get much knowledge on the latest automation tool.

This was a fantastic comparison. You conviced me to give it a go to Playright

hello clever man we need more videos please your explanation are so great to understand

I am just getting into the automation world but from what I have seen from both Playwright looks the easier tool to use. I will be looking at trying both though.

for the "auth reuse" you can do that in selenium too. either with chrome profiles or even saving cookies into a file using pickle or even json files. but It can be a plus if its natively supported by the framework I can agree on that.

PlayWright has automatic code generator, that's just another next level

thanks mate, awesome comparison and explanations. cheers

vote for Selenium vs playwright vs cypress

A great and informative video. Keep up the good work!

Thank you sir for this amazing video it helped me to better understand the benefits of playwright.

So overall, Selenium still rocks after all this years.

Excelent comparison.

THANK YOUU VIKTORRRRR!!!

Playwright is the way to go for me

the man knows what he is talking about. One question: how is playwrite when data-driven framework is used like google sheets or excel ?

It's so easy to configure your own WebElement objects with custom methods in order to control the waiting, polling, validating, etc. I don't understand the knock on Selenium from this standpoint. Have been using it for years and no flakiness issues introduced besides those from poor developers. Will be diving into Playwright shortly and see how that goes though.

Nice video, you've got a new subscriber! I'm going to check out your other vids very shortly.

Is this channel still active? Anyone know if Victor is OK or just maybe not uploading content? Asking as I shot an email to the posted email address and it was bounced back. Also, it has been about 8 months since the last upload. I was really hoping for some more Playwright content as we are vetting this solution here. This channel has a few really well put together / easy to follow demos.

Thanks a lot for the such useful video!

Thanks mate! Great job!

Using both of them, I now absolutely prefer Playwright because it has some nice features that Selenium does not (at least not so easily). - hover() instead of ActionChains - shadow DOM handling - selectors in - expect_request() to handle network requests - automatic scroll into view if needed - etc., etc. .... And regarding my test scripts, it is simply faster and more stable (no more WebdriverExceptions when the webdriver decides to freeze... A/K/A "Timed out receiving message from renderer")... I assume that all Selenium users are aware of this issue... ;-)

Nice video..I explored playwright 2 weeks ago and started to build with Python/pytest. Will be good if you have videos for playwrights Python soon. Thanks

You make an wonderful video.good job

i still use Playwright! ❤❤❤👍

forgot to mention that selenium produces a bunch of flaki tests, it doesn't have auto wait like cypress and playwright does, because of that it doesn't handle async code properly. for web page testing I think Selenium is showing it's age it seems. Cypress and Playwright are much better options

What about popups from the OS? For example PIN dialogues to authenticate in a webpage. Can you handle it with playwright?

very good information!! congrats

Great video. Thanks Man : )

Amazing video!, Thank you so much!

Hello. Thank you for the great educational videos you make. Which of the following software do you choose to test modern software? Cypress or Playwright or Selenium ?

cool review! thanks!

Good knowledge. Thx Man!

Playwright for sure !

Saying typescript is just a superset of javascript is a bit like saying that scala is just a superset of java. On the contrary, the TS support is the shining jewel, and probably how most people are writing playwright tests.

Great Video!

hope you can have tutorial about Playwright native features and the use cases of them that you mentioned in the video

great explanation and thank you

How Playwright can be integrated with other test requirement like working with excel, pdf, database etc ? As in Selenium-Java, its in the end java based framework that can be extended with Apache PIO, Rest Assured, JDBC etc to have complete robust solution. I am very new to JS based test tools hence no idea how can be work with excel, database, API etc along with web app tests.

I've discovered something that playwright does better then selenium: using proxies. Its very easy to use proxies that needs authorization. On selenium i had to use a bunch of third party libraries.

Fantastic video

Thanks for the video.

I guess Selenium gets the nod for browser support. Probably the main selling point is that it supports the old "pre-chromium" version of Edge. At this point, though, I feel sorry for anyone that still has to support Internet Explorer. And I hope that those computers are NOT on the public facing Internet.

Nailed it.

I didn't like this comparison because it doesn't consider ease of use. I was watching a video on Playwright and that was enough to be impressed at how simple is Playwright syntax in comparison to Selenium, from the code itself to even the imports and environment preparation (that requires you to download a webdriver whenever the broswer you use is updated). It's like going from hell to heaven, but it's not considered in the video.

Amazing video, thank you. I'am trying to use the playwright but how can integrate a nice debugger in IntelliJ (with robot framework), do you have any idea? I'm using the word "debug" to force the code to stop :(

Selenium supports php as well

What happened to posting every 2 weeks??? I really like your videos 😒

great vid, thanks I know the point that is not supporting IE

Selenium all the way but will try Playwright for sure. I personally don't like JS/TS so until it's cooked properly for Java or maybe Python...I might just wait.

Based on all the comments on here I am going to give Playwright a go!

Nice

Have you made any course on playwright ?

Why do I have to use Chrome for incognito tabs. Other browser have icognito modes aswell!

Video quality is high!

this year, the sites to be automated to make money are so hostile to bots that i don't think PlayWright can do the job. Because in Selenium, there's Undetected Chromedriver

Im curious if its possible to capture web api requests by modern dynamic websites like ReactJs backend calls on scrolling the page or load more functionality requests. is it possible in playwright as it is possible with selenium-wire? can anyone confirm this feature for me?

Been a few months since the last request for an update. Anyone have any information on Victor and the status of this channel?

Id argue that there’s no universe where the language support point should go to Selenium because “Ruby is more of a language than Typescript” Typescript makes up the bulk of enterprise web apps these days, it’s used exponentially more than Ruby, and it’s not even close (more than almost any other language actually) So are devs going to use the language that is already required of them? Or flipping RUBY. It’s like saying my homemade custom Hotwheels company started in my garage is more of a car company than Lexus because technically Lexus is just a Toyota.

Hi bro thanks for this video a question how can i activate vpn in webdrive opera ? (Selenium python )

With Playwright say goodbye to flaky tests.

Is the playwright supports mobile testing automation? Thanks

Cypress it is then...

never know Shavo Odadjian also a programmer 😅

Thanks for the comparison! Is it me or is the sound not well recorded? It jumps up and down between loud and silent parts, what makes some words hard to understand.

Playwright does not support extensions.

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Help me

Selenium doesn't even work as intended. Use playwright....

Who is the BDD equivalent of Playwright?

I believe Playwright with Java does not have softassertion alike selenium - Playwright (assertThat - fails and stops execution at that point) - or i am not sure if it depends on the test runner framework we use (alike testng has org.testng.asserts.SoftAssert) ???

In fairness at 10:04 this guy intentionally makes selenium more complicated. A better and more readable was to write the code would be. wait = webdriverwait(driver, 10).until(expectedcontions.elementtobeclickable(by.xpath("//locator"))) Wait.click() When you're using unexpected conditions you're already locating the element so the third line is completely unnecessary and redundant and you can shorten it further by importing expected conditions as EC. So what I write is: wait = webdriverwait(driver, 10).until(EC.elementtobeclickable(by.xpath("//locator"))) Wait.click()

Help me