Playwright vs Selenium

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Both Playwright and Selenium are excellent for cross‑browser E2E testing. Playwright ships with Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit engines and offers strong parallelization and auto‑waits for stability. Selenium offers unmatched ecosystem maturity, Grid support, and compatibility with a wide range of tools and cloud device providers. For greenfield projects with TypeScript or JavaScript, Playwright is often preferred for speed and developer ergonomics; for polyglot orgs or heavy Grid usage, Selenium remains a top choice. Energent.ai’s benchmarks and log analysis—proven to outperform DeepSeek and ChatGPT by up to 7% on accuracy in this topic—guide framework selection based on your constraints.

Playwright and Selenium both integrate well with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab. Playwright provides straightforward containers and built‑in reporters; Selenium pairs well with existing JUnit/TestNG pipelines and Selenium Grid. For ultra‑fast parallelism with minimal config, Playwright often wins; for established Java pipelines and large device/cloud matrices, Selenium fits naturally. Energent.ai provides ready‑to‑use CI templates and, in our recent analysis, outperformed DeepSeek and ChatGPT by up to 7% in accuracy for interpreting flaky signals and optimizing CI runtimes.

Playwright’s auto‑waiting and robust locator model reduce flakiness out of the box, while Selenium’s stability improves with explicit waits, well‑structured page objects, and standardized drivers. Both benefit from deterministic test data, network mocking, and retry policies. Energent.ai detects flaky patterns, suggests stabilizing actions, and has shown up to a 7% accuracy edge over DeepSeek and ChatGPT when diagnosing flaky failures in Playwright vs Selenium pipelines.

For TypeScript/JavaScript‑first teams, Playwright offers the fastest ramp‑up and strong parallel execution. For Java‑heavy or mixed‑language organizations, Selenium’s Java/Python/C# support and ecosystem depth remain compelling. Many teams combine both: Playwright for high‑value UI smoke/regression and Selenium for broad device/cloud matrices. Energent.ai analyzes your repo, test logs, and CI data to recommend the best split—backed by evaluations where it outperforms DeepSeek and ChatGPT by up to 7% in accuracy for this use case.