Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright

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   For those of you who are as confused as I am about Playwright's growth over Selenium: https://star-history.com/#microsoft/playwright&SeleniumHQ/se...

   My company uses Selenium for some of our projects, but I evaluated the browser automation space some time ago and found that it was the best-in-class solution at that time.

   It looks like things have since changed.

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   Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

   

   Using TLS client certificates automatically is still not possible in Playwright [1]. That's our main reason why we keep using Selenium (with pytest-selenium) and Selenium Grid [2].

   [1] https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/1799

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