[tnolet]

This question does come up quite a lot. One thing the remember is that Cypress is "batteries included" testing framework, where Playwright is essentially just the browser automation part of it.

I know the Playwright team is "moving up the stack" and adding many specific testing features, but it's not at the same level (yet?) as Cypress.

[inglor]

I think you're thinking of Puppeteer? Playwright has stuff like automatically waiting for elements, selecting by text etc all built in - with modern JavaScript/TypeScript, none of the weird chaining syntax and debugger.

There are also tools that give you pretty much any feature Cypress has on top of Playwright.

(Not saying which is better - only that they're both sort of the same slot)

[arjun27]

With the latest release, Playwright includes an integrated test runner: https://playwright.dev/docs/next/test-intro