Playwright vs WebDriver: The Future of Browser Automation
Is Playwright — the open-source testing tool — ready to replace WebDriver? Adam Tapper first describes the key features and limitations of the tool and then compares it to WebDriver.
Cypress vs Playwright: Which is best for E2E testing?
Cypress and Playwright are similar tools. Cathal Mac Donnacha compares both in a concise, one-sentence list of the good and bad sides of each.
Furthermore, you might be interested in a step-by-step video tutorial to Writing a Playwright script testing/monitoring amazon.com by Giovanni Rago.
Cross-Browser Testing in JavaScript Using Playwright — March 8
Andrew Knight, the Automation Panda, is back with another free workshop. Explore how to accelerate cross-browser and cross-device testing using JavaScript with Playwright, discover the requirements of a scalable cross-browser testing initiative, and more. Register for free.
Using Playwright Fixtures to improve your testing code
If you do test automation in Playwright, you might be interested in Henrique Martins's helpful tip about using the fixture feature to clean up your code and make the test setup easier and more readable.
Speeding up UI tests with CodeceptJS and Playwright
Benjamin Sejas and Srini Ramasamy give a detailed overview of the lessons they learned from migrating tests to a new tech stack.
Automation Testing with Playwright and JavaScript — Part I (Setup)
Shubham Kumar wrote a detailed guide to testing web UI interfaces using Playwright. You can also read the second part about the built-in reporters and the third part about integrating Allure.
Why we favor Playwright over Selenium or Cypress
Cypress, Playwright and Selenium are powerful test automation tools. Patrick Döring and Kenji Brückner share their opinion on why they favour one of them over the others.
Additionally, Eric Terry compares these tools' Amazingly Different Screenshot Capabilities.
Playwright E2E testing: Tips and best practices
Cathal Mac Donnacha shares five pieces of advice for improving test automation with Playwright. It can easily be adapted to other popular test frameworks as well.
Check Your Site's Performance With Artillery and Playwright
There are many ways of measuring your website's performance. But the one you should care the most about is how long it takes a user to be able to interact with it. Dennis Martinez shows how you can combine Artillery with Playwright to find out.
Flexible and Dynamic Test Fixtures in Playwright
Playwright has some cool features allowing you to make dynamic fixtures. Here's a handy guide by Haris Saleem on how to use it in various ways.
A good complementary read to that is Wagner Salustiano's article on How to use Playwright Fixtures to improve your testing code.
