I’m a long time Selenium WebDriver.js user and been looking into the current state automated test frameworks. What I’ve learnt: The big divide is between those that use the WebDriver classic system (WDIO, Selenium WebDriver.js etc) and those based on Websockets or Chrome Developer Tools (Puppet…

I feel the future would be for automation tools that believe in GOLD (Going One Layer Down)! Industry is learning from the downsides of heavily investing on the UI layer tests. API layer automation related tools will get more prominence. For the UI layer, Playwright may be a market leader unless …

Playwright’s current issue is that it has to patch Firefox and Safari with the inherent problems that approach introduces. Can we be sure that the development of Firefox and Safari will move to a point where that is no longer necessary before a competitor achieves the same integration ?

It’s a 80-20 Game. I feel for people who are building just for Chromium compatibility, they will just choose Playwright. [image]

Why Microsoft Playwright over Google’s Puppeter if Chromium is the 80% market determinate?

In Indian market, I see everyone moving to Playwright. Have not met even a few going to Puppeteer

Mass adoption as a determiner of decisions is a doubled edged sword. If it provides investment to improve the tooling and thoughtful adoption: yay! But if it doesn’t we can also end in large sunk cost fallacy that eventually triggers a re-think and (as you rightly identify) calls for GOLD. I like…

My humble opinion: Playwright is the winner Reason: People support. I’ve seen this before, it is not a valid reason to decide but it will do. In the past the same happened many times, for example: Apache Mesos vs Kubernetes. Mesos was light-years ahead but people choosed K8s. Today nobody remembe…

The Javascript community has historically been notably more fickle relationships with frameworks as those who’ve seen the rise and fall of jQuery, CoffeeScript, Angular, et al can attest

This might be a discussion around web test automation as well. So far we’re not really discussing desktop UI automation here, nor mobile app UI, nor game console testing. On the desktop UI side, sad to see that MS seems to have abandoned their WinAppDriver, and we have multiple alternatives from th…

I know a couple of orgs that have moved either to Playwright or Cypress - they either find WebDriver too flaky and give up, or people want something new on their CV. The reality of WebDriver is that it rewards time and experience. Once you have strategies to handle all the exceptions you encounter…

What Automated Testing Tools will dominate in the near future?

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