Playwright’s rise as a web automation tool for testing has been remarkable: adoption rates soared from 1 million weekly npm downloads in 2021 to 83 million weekly npm downloads in Q3 2026, the latest reports show. The growth in 2026 alone has been immense: In Q1 2026, Playwright had 33 million weekly npm downloads, according…
If you lead a team of developers, SDETs, or QA professionals, you’ve likely had this conversation: should you build test automation yourself, or buy a platform that already does it? Playwright itself is a strong, well-documented framework, and it has become the default choice for browser automation. That reputation is why the do-it-yourself (DIY) route sounds…
Playwright has become the default choice for engineering-led test automation. Playwright is fast, well-documented, maintained, and increasingly the standard execution engine for web-based test automation. However, the same properties that make it appealing to developers, such as code-first authoring and engineer-owned scripts create predictable issues for businesses once a program scales past a single team…
For as long as software developers have shipped software, quality came down to one question asked right before release: “Did we test it?” Green results, sign-off, out the door. Simple, and for a long time, good enough. It isn’t anymore. Between continuous delivery, AI-generated code, and autonomous agents, that question quietly lost its power. The one that’s replaced it is harder…
When most enterprise teams evaluate a do-it-yourself (DIY) Playwright build, they tend to focus on the foundational, table stakes costs that are easy to see. These are items like engineering hours, cloud infrastructure, and open-source tooling; they’re the costs that end up in a spreadsheet, to be reviewed and approved. The numbers that rarely make it into…
With Leapwork’s no-code automation, the organization achieved a 2x faster time to market, enabling them to deliver updates and features to their clients at unprecedented speed.
Modern applications increasingly rely on different interconnected systems. Without proper E2E testing, a single failure in this chain can cause catastrophic downtime, lost revenue, and dissatisfied customers. This becomes clear when examining industry insights and research findings. Research from the University of Illinois found at least 20% of severe failures in cloud applications stem from cross-system interaction…
