UI Test automation framework racing
Hey there 👋🏻
It would be a bit repetitive if I started the post by saying that technology advances fast and we must keep studying 📚. So instead of motivating everyone to keep informed let’s talk about it as a run 🏃♀️.
There is the site http://star-history.com that allows the comparison of the history of the star of GitHub projects, and the site https://npmtrends.com/ to compare the number of npm downloads of projects, given that we will compare some automation projects 🏆.
For the UI test automation frameworks, we have:
- Selenium
- Cypress
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Robot Framework
- WebdriverIO
- TestCafe
For the GitHub Star competition, the great winner is 🥁……
Puppeteer 🥳.
It was released in January of 2018 and after that it grew exponentially, really impressive.
I must confess that I didn’t have the chance to study puppeteer, but now I’ll give it a time and see why it is so loved, maybe I’ll fall in love with it too.
In second we have Playwright who just passed Cypress recently, which is in the third position.
For the NPM challenge the Robot framework will be left out because it is a Python framework, but with the remaining candidates we have 🥁…
Playwright 🎉 .
The impressive part is that playwright downloads increased in an almost linear line in the past year.
I am still studying this framework, soon I’ll write some posts about it… so keep following me 🤗.
In the second place, we have cypress that had some ups and downs, changing places with puppeteer sometimes, but overall its place was linear.
How did you like our race?
Continue here to keep posted about random things I want to study 😉.
