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Selenide – A wrapper for Selenium, Selenide consists of many other tools, including Selenium, WebdriverManager, and BrowserUp Proxy. Selenide is well-organized and comes with good documentation and a large community. It enables you to simplify complex tasks, for example: file download, autostart and autostop of the browser, using a proxy, etc. Though it officially supports only Java, there is also an unofficial port in Python called Selene.
Selenide – A wrapper for Selenium, Selenide consists of many other tools, including Selenium, WebdriverManager, and BrowserUp Proxy. Selenide is well-organized and comes with good documentation and a large community. It enables you to simplify complex tasks, for example: file download, autostart and autostop of the browser, using a proxy, etc. Though it officially supports only Java, there is also an unofficial port in Python called Selene.
You can find this example in my GitLab repository.
For Selenide, I used this solution to record a video to demonstrate how tests are run. It records the desktop, but Playwright has a feature that can do this too. If you use PW only, you simply point to the folder where you want to save your video.
Selenide – A wrapper for Selenium, Selenide consists of many other tools, including Selenium, WebdriverManager, and BrowserUp Proxy. Selenide is well-organized and comes with good documentation and a large community. It enables you to simplify complex tasks, for example: file download, autostart and autostop of the browser, using a proxy, etc. Though it officially supports only Java, there is also an unofficial port in Python called Selene.
Puppeteer – A web testing tool based on CDP (Chrome devtools protocol), Puppeteer also works perfectly with Chromium-based browsers and has limited support from Firefox. Puppeteer has a supportive community that works hard on documentation. The tool has unofficial ports for Python, Java, etc. When it comes to tests, it uses JavaScript/TypeScript.
Playwright – The hero of this article, Playwright is a new, exciting solution for web (and other) test automation. It Is supported by Microsoft and has great documentation and a strong community. The service comes with various implementations for Java, JS, .Net, and Python. The syntax is similar to Puppeteer. Playwright is a fork of Puppeteer, but can work with Chrome, Firefox, and Webkit-based browsers with a single API. A Little Bit of Theory on UI Automation Tools
CodeceptJS – A wrapper for different tools in one interface. Language: JavaScript/TypeScript. Frameworks that are wrapped: Playwright, Webdriver.io, Puppeteer, Protractor, etc. The service also comes with a large community and is easy to install and use for e2e testing.