Selenium vs Playwright in Java — A Practitioner's Comparison

Selenium vs Playwright in Java — A Practitioner's Comparison By a QA Engineer with 10 years in Selenium, now hands-on with Playwright I didn't switch to Playwright because it was trending. I switched because a Shadow DOM component broke my Selenium suite for the third time in a week, and a colleague said, "just try it." That was the beginning of a humbling, then genuinely exciting, re-evaluation of my entire automation toolkit. This is not a "Playwright is better" post. It's a comparison written