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Today, we will discuss two open-source tools, Playwright from Microsoft, the newest addition to Automation Framework. And another one is the most preferred tool, Selenium, which has been with us for more than a decade now. 

The Playwright is aligned with the architecture of the modern browsers and runs tests out-of-process, and it is free of the typical in-process test runner limitations of Cypress. Playwright communicates all requests between client and server through a single WebSocket connection which is comparatively better than the Selenium HTTP Connection protocol for automation.

The Playwright is an automation tool from Microsoft for reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps. The Playwright is a perfect rival against Selenium.

The top two contributors of Playwright are the same ones who created the Puppeteer; Puppeteer is an open-source node-js-based framework built by Google. It is written in TypeScript which is a superset of JavaScript.

Like any other automation, tool Playwright needs prerequisites and requirements before it can be run in an environment. 

System Requirements

The browser binaries work across three platforms Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The newest addition to Automation Framework, Playwright from Microsoft, has arrived as a solid competitor to Cypress. The Playwright did initial release in 2020; it has come up with many features and overcome almost all tradeoffs that Cypress had. Let’s compare Playwright and Cypress to understand when to use what.