Funny this popped up...I've been looking at replacing our slow and flaky Selenium test suite recently.
From what I can tell here are the benefits:
* With Playwright you don't need to put manual waits in your program. It's async.
* You also don't need to keep updating the Selenium.Webdriver to stay in sync with your browser version. This is a 15-20 minute time sink each time it happens.
* Can run in headless mode which will run the test suite much faster than selenium.
* Also appears to have better command line options to be run from a CI/CD environment
From what I can tell here are the benefits:
* With Playwright you don't need to put manual waits in your program. It's async.
* You also don't need to keep updating the Selenium.Webdriver to stay in sync with your browser version. This is a 15-20 minute time sink each time it happens.
* Can run in headless mode which will run the test suite much faster than selenium.
* Also appears to have better command line options to be run from a CI/CD environment