Why Teams Are Switching from Selenium to Playwright in 2026

The article contrasts two testing frameworks, showing how Playwright's modern WebSocket-based architecture delivers faster, more reliable tests compared to Selenium's traditional HTTP approach. For teams struggling with flaky CI pipelines and unreliable test retries, this shift represents a fundamental rethinking of test automation philosophy. Today's choice between them defines not just tooling preferences, but engineering culture and infrastructure complexity.