Why we chose Playwright for our testing needs
July 01, 2024

Why we chose Playwright for our testing needs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Playwright

We use Playwright to automate our LMS's critical path. It is a complex software with many possible edge cases, it takes 2 testers 3 full days to fully smoke the app (not regression). With Playwright we automated the critical path, we integrated it into our CI/CD, and now it's constantly running and detecting errors and bugs before they even reach to QA.

Pros

  • automation
  • integrations
  • support
  • community
  • features
  • easy to use
  • documentation

Cons

  • bigger adoption
  • mobile testing
  • Reduce of cost of manual testers
  • Reduce of released bugs
  • Reduce of costs of developer time
  • Increase QA Coverage
It makes automating complex user interactions easier, fits right into our CI/CD for continuous testing, and works great across different browsers. The Documentation is a plus, you don't really need to search a lot to understand and find what you need for the coding.
The community is small but very helpful, which makes it a breeze to use and a must-have for keeping our software in top shape.
We selected Playwright over the rest for several reasons. The learning curve is faster, making it easier for our team to get up to speed quickly. The setup is pretty straithtforwared, minimal configurartion needed and a great example included in the configuration which includes all the basics to start writing using that spec as a placeholder. Compared to Cypress, Playwright support multiple browsers out of the box, giving us broader testing coverage. Appium is great for mobile testing, but extremely slow.

Do you think Playwright delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Playwright's feature set?

Yes

Did Playwright live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Playwright go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Playwright again?

Yes

Playwright is works pretty well for automating the critical user paths of any web application, ensuring that core functionalities are constantly tested and catching issues before they reach QA, particularly through its seamless integration into our CI/CD (in our case, using GithHub); however, it is less appropriate for mobile testing since it doesn't support mobile applications. Testers still needs to learn another framework to do this.

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