December 9, 2021 | 1:00 PM ET
Selenium vs Playwright: Let the Code Speak
In this corner, we have long-time reigning champ: Selenium WebDriver
And over in this corner, we have newcomer: Playwright
Which of these will take the belt???
If you’re doing any automated testing, surely you’ve heard of Selenium WebDriver, the most popular web automation framework in the market. Well, Microsoft has open sourced a new automation framework, Playwright, that quite possibly is the most extensive automation framework we’ve seen since WebDriver – boasting multi-language, cross browser support.
Typical comparisons of automation frameworks feel very academic, highlighting the difference in feature sets.
This webinar is going to take another approach…it will be a battle of the code! Angie Jones, will represent Selenium WebDriver while Andy Knight will represent Playwright.
Round for round, Angie and Andy will take coding tasks and implement them in Selenium as well as Playwright, then analyze how each of the frameworks perform to solve real world testing challenges!
You, the audience, will weigh in to judge each round!
Join them and hear for yourself what the code has to say!
Principal Automation Architect and Senior Director, Applitools and Test Automation University
Angie Jones specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. A pillar of the global test automation community, Angie is a world-renowned speaker and thought leader, and you can often find her presenting and teaching at international software conferences. She is also the driving force and director of Test Automation University—a free, online educational platform providing test automaton courses by leading instructors.
Developer Advocate, Applitools
Andy Knight is the “Automation Panda”—an engineer, consultant, and international speaker who builds solutions for software testing problems. He has designed and built robust test automation projects for web apps, service APIs, and operating systems with thousands of tests running continuously. He is the lead developer for Boa Constrictor, the .NET Screenplay Pattern. He also mentors others in good development, testing, and BDD practices. Andy currently works full-time Developer Advocate for Applitools. Read his tech blog at AutomationPanda.com, and follow him on Twitter at @AutomationPanda.