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Re:Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright by geoelectric on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:37PM (#33539774)
Oh, OK! I misunderstood the comment entirely then. Thanks for correcting me there, especially since I was apparently too lazy to look for myself.

This does sound more promising then, if they've found new ways to add maintainability or QoL aspects to record/replay. As I said elsewhere, I think r/r gets a bad rap, and those sorts of improvements would increase the number of situations where it makes sense (at least for testing in incubation).

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Re:Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright by imiric on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:52PM (#33540632)
I think the mistake was in the comment you replied to, that suggested Playwright used custom browser builds.

I do recommend giving it a try. The web browser automation landscape is much more reliable these days for writing E2E tests than back when Selenium was state of the art.

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