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Fig 2 — Trace viewer docs

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Fig 3 — Codegen docs

// OUR VERDICT

If your engineers write tests, start here. Playwright's auto-waiting made our checkout suite stable on the first run, and the trace viewer cut debugging time in half compared with Selenium.

WHAT WE LIKED

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WHAT HELD IT BACK

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// SCORE BREAKDOWN

Pricing, checked Sep 26, 2026

Playwright itself is free under the Apache 2.0 license. Your real cost is CI time. At 10 parallel workers our 50-step suite used about 6 runner-minutes per run.

Our test, run by run

npx playwright test checkout.spec.ts

              Running 150 tests using 10 workers
                ✓ [chromium] checkout › 50 steps (36.2s)
                ✓ [firefox] checkout › 50 steps (41.8s)
                ✓ [webkit] checkout › 50 steps (39.1s)
                150 passed (1.9m)
                → trace: test-results/checkout/trace.zip
            

50/50STEPS PASSED

38sMEDIAN RUN

0FLAKY STEPS

2h 40mTO AUTHOR

Playwright review

Pricing, checked Sep 26, 2026

Our test, run by run

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