Written by senior QA engineers with 9+ years in the field. No fluff, no filler. Honest perspectives on testing, automation, and building quality into your process.
Playwright now sits at 45% adoption among QA professionals while Selenium has slipped to 22%. But adoption numbers don't run your sprint. Here's an honest, framework-agnostic breakdown of when each tool wins and when the choice matters less than you think.
The change that drove the biggest quality improvement wasn't a new tool or a bigger test suite. It was a different conversation with the dev team, at a different point in the sprint. Here's exactly what we changed and why it worked.
Neither model wins universally. After 9+ years embedded in both, here's the honest framework engineering leaders actually need to make this decision — including the hybrid model most mature teams end up at.
Getting Playwright running locally is easy. Getting it running reliably inside a CI/CD pipeline is a different problem. Here's the full GitHub Actions setup, including sharding, caching, and the five things that trip up CI runs every time.
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