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Re:Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebD... by diroussel on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:04PM (#25294900)
It’s only a “tiny concern” because the results seem so similar. But if one was drastically slower, then it is important.

However I don’t believe this testing methodology shows the true performance impact of the different frameworks. Only once you have a significant number of assertions and page interactions then to we really see the performance impact of the architectural differences.

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Re:Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebD... by bdcravens on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:24PM (#25297442)
Sure. In my experience (I've done a ton of this kind of work) well designed flow can take at least 30 seconds, up to several minutes depending on what you're automating. A difference of 5-10 seconds tends to not matter in that situation, and you'll be more interested in things like code ergonomics, memory leaks over time, etc.
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