Playwright Reviews & Product Details

Playwright has streamlined our QA workflow for SaaS and AI products. Its auto-waiting capability eliminates flaky tests, and running tests concurrently across multiple browsers saves us huge amounts of development time. Trace Viewer makes debugging UI bugs and API calls remarkably fast, making it an indispensable tool in our CI/CD pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, we haven't faced any noticeable issues or major downsides with Playwright so far. It has been smooth, fast, and reliable across our entire SaaS and AI development workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about Playwright is how reliable it is for end-to-end testing. It supports multiple browsers (Chromium, Firefox) and handles modern web apps really well. The auto-waiting feature and built-in test runner make tests more stable compared to older tools like Selenium. Playwright MCP is my go-to tool for testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest downside is that it takes some initial setup and a basic understanding of testing concepts. On top of that, troubleshooting more complex test failures can be time-consuming if you’re not already familiar with the tooling. Also, debugging complex test failures can take time if you’re not familiar with the tooling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Playwright is very useful and fast for Automation Testing compared to Selenium. It supports all languages and has an auto-wait feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For Playwright with Python in Automation Testing, there is a very low community compared to JS and TS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There’s no need to add explicit waits, since Playwright automatically waits until an element is loaded. Also, when a test fails, it captures screenshots and videos, which helps with troubleshooting and fixing failing tests. Furthermore, importing data from a JSON file is seamless, as the framework easily resolves the file locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn't natively support iOS devices. Additionally, as the codebase grows, maintainability becomes complicated. Furthermore, integrating it with third-party apps is challenging, especially since we have no control over their updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The auto-sleep and wait handling makes UI testing less brittle compared to Selenium or Puppeteer.

It's code-gen plus auto locator handling makes debugging easy

It's easy to use and integrate with services

It's free to use and has no cost associated

vast support and community that you can reach out to for open questions nd suggestions

Now with AI features, lets you create playwright tests using its MCP

High speed, and great reliability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Playwright's built in report generation is not that helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like how easy and fast it is to write tests with Playwright. Setting up cross-browser tests is simple, and I don’t have to worry about flaky tests as much and another thing what i love most is auto-waiting feature . It just makes browser testing less of a headache Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes Playwright feels a bit slow when running really large test suites, and figuring out why a test failed isn’t always super straightforward. Other than that, it’s great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Playwright for automated testing across multiple projects during many years and find it to be one of the most reliable testing frameworks available today. The framework delivers on its promise of providing fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web applications.

I appreciate the single API that drives Chromium, WebKit and Firefox on any desktop OS or CI runner, removing the need to wire separate browser drivers. The auto-wait mechanism reliably pauses every action until the target element is ready, which stabilises asynchronous web flows without hard timeouts. Built-in tooling such as Codegen, Inspector, and Trace Viewer speeds up authoring and debugging while keeping all artefacts (screenshots, videos, execution traces) in one place. A browser-context per test design isolates storage and cookies within milliseconds, enabling parallel runs without cross-test pollution. Native mobile emulation for Chrome on Android and Mobile Safari makes the same scripts cover responsive scenarios alongside desktop paths. The framework ships with out-of-the-box reporting, assertions and CI integrations, so no additional libraries are required to assemble a working test suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When an application performs a hard redirect to a different domain, the runner can terminate the script instead of following the new origin, forcing extra handling logic.

Memory consumption grows during long parallel sessions because each browser context stays resident until the worker finishes; fine-grained disposal controls would help large pipelines (observation based on daily runs, not yet addressed in releases). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to setup

- Support different languages

- Awesome documentation

- Fast feedback from the developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Now I need to migrate all my test from Serenity/java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that from the start you have all the necessary tools to create a framework from zero, if you are using Selenium you know that you have to add dependencies to your POM file, add some basic code to handle reports, test executions, logs, test endpoints, etc, but while using Playwright you have all that without any trouble, right since the beginning you will have those basic tools that any automation framework needs, is easier to implement, the documentation is pretty good too, and the integration with other tools is done with zero effort like GitHub actions to trigger the automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hmmm, nothing really, perhaps that I started to use it just now ;) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has headless feature that makes it as awesome and the debugging is a top notch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When the domain of the website changes the software terminates the job instead of continuing in the new domain is a bottleneck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.