Playwright vs. WebdriverIO

Playwright

Playwright

15 Reviews and Ratings

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Playwright	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	A cross-browser testing tool, playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Users can test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. It is also cross-language, so that the Playwright API can be used in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Java. Test Mobile Web. Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on the Desktop and in the Cloud. Playright…	N/A
WebdriverIO	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	WebdriverIO, an OpenJS Foundation project, is a next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js. It can be run on the WebDriver Protocol for true cross-browser testing as well as Chrome DevTools Protocol for Chromium based automation using Puppeteer.	N/A

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Community Pulse
	Playwright	WebdriverIO
Considered Both Products	Playwright Verified User Anonymous Chose Playwright 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	WebdriverIO Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Chose WebdriverIO Stands out as a clear leader. The fact that there are so many integrations and the simplicity of writing code should make you want to select WebdriverIO. However, the full-feature nature of this framework is what sets it apart. I hope to be able to get this framework going soon! Incentivized Helpful? Anurag Bharti Quality Assurance Specialist Chose WebdriverIO 1. WebdriverIO is used for automating both browsers and native mobile apps. 2. Selenium is being used on most of the languages except JavaScript (TypeScript) and our front-end development is in Reactjs Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WebdriverIO Other tools we selected don't work in our application, it does or doesn't support multiple frames or need more tweaking just to make it works. When testing out WebdriverIO it just works as expected, no need to do such walk around to make it works multiple frames. It also can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WebdriverIO Was missing a few from the list, but we also tried: Jest Puppeteer Nightwatch.js Webdriver.js Webdriver.io compared to the above ticked more boxes. Some of the things we looked for: Async/sync support Popularity within the community Support for screenshots Access to … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Playwright	WebdriverIO
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Playwright	WebdriverIO
Likelihood to Recommend	Easy to code and help in sanity regression and functional test cases Incentivized david leo Developer Read full review	I haven't seen a use case that WDIO can't cover, even including integrations into performance/load testing and mobile! The fact that there are boilerplate projects and code examples galore make it so simple to understand and see real-world PoCs of concepts you need to understand. I highly recommend WDIO! Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review
Pros	API UI Performance Incentivized david leo Developer Read full review	Quick start when running the test, easy to maintain the framework. Faster and has vast community support on the internet. No need to Build an Automation framework from scratch. Can be integrated with different services. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	bigger adoption mobile testing Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tasks written in this can only be debugged using the provided WDIO task runner We cannot set breakpoints within tasks but have WDIO pause the run between commands. It is not as customized as Protractor. It deviates from generic syntax which may confuse selenium developers having knowledge of other languages. Incentivized Anurag Bharti Quality Assurance Specialist Read full review
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	1. WebdriverIO is used for automating both browsers and native mobile apps. 2. Selenium is being used on most of the languages except JavaScript (TypeScript) and our front-end development is in Reactjs Incentivized Anurag Bharti Quality Assurance Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	Reduce of cost of manual testers Reduce of released bugs Reduce of costs of developer time Increase QA Coverage Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Gives easy access to Saucelabs Devices and VMs to the frontend developers who don't have to fiddle around with connection to Saucelabs itself - so ROI on Saucelabs as webdriverIO is free The small learning curve to actually get set up and running - our working framework was written in a few days Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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