A beginner's honest take on two popular browser testing tools — what they do, how they're different, and which one makes more sense to start with in 2026 . Selenium is the tool everyone starts with. But after trying Playwright, I kept asking myself — why wasn't I using this from the beginning? When I started learning automation testing, the first name that kept coming up was Selenium. Makes sense — it’s been around since 2004, it’s widely used, and there are loads of tutorial