Playwright
A step-by-step guide to setting up Playwright and understanding its advantages over Cypress and Selenium
This article provides a description of Microsoft's Playwright, a modern testing framework, as well as its advantages over popular competitors such as Cypress and Selenium. It emphasizes Playwright's primary advantages, such as broad browser compatibility, API consistency, speed and reliability, network interception, and auto-wait features.
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