Navigating UI Test Automation with Playwright and Python — Part 1

The importance of automated testing has never been more pronounced, and today, I’m excited to delve into UI test automation with Playwright using Python. To start with, I’ll highlight the key benefits and drawbacks of Playwright compared to another popular tool, Cypress.

In the cons, multi page support is interesting in the case of Cypress.

some reasons why working with multi-page applications can be more complex in Cypress:

1. Single Page Application (SPA) Focus: Cypress is primarily designed for testing single-page applications (SPAs) where the entire application runs within a single HTML page. In SPAs, navigation between pages occurs without a full browser reload. If you are working with a traditional multi-page application where each page is served as a separate HTML document, Cypress’s built-in mechanisms may not handle navigation and page transitions as smoothly.
2. Limited Native Cross-Page Navigation Support: Cypress is built to navigate within a single page, and its native cy.visit() command loads an entirely new page, which can be problematic for multi-page apps. Handling navigation…