Oracle Application Testing Suite (legacy) vs. Playwright

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Application Testing Suite (legacy)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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The Oracle Application Testing Suite is a legacy suite of tools. Oracle Application Testing Suite 13.1.0.1 shipped in 2017 was the last major release. Since then, two minor releases 13.2.0.1 and 13.3.0.1 were released with only smaller sets of new features.N/A
Playwright
Score 8.7 out of 10
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A cross-browser testing tool, playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Users can test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. It is also cross-language, so that the Playwright API can be used in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Java. Test Mobile Web. Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on the Desktop and in the Cloud. Playright…
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Pricing
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Oracle Application Testing Suite (legacy)Playwright
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
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User Testimonials
Oracle Application Testing Suite (legacy)Playwright
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
It is extremely well suited for database upgrade testing as well as major upgrades of the E-business suite applications. It is less suited for performing this for minor patching efforts.
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Microsoft
Playwright is very well suited for any kind of frontend QA regression testing. It's perfect for ensuring that important features that are not often updated remain fully functional across updates or releases. It is not well suited for testing a feature that requires more developer updates before it is ready for end users. Playwright tests are not always simple to maintain if frequent updates are required to keep them relevant. Playwright can be used for API or database assertions as well, but it's not necessarily best suited for those scenarios. It does perform well enough to consider that use case for simplicity if Playwright is already relevant for any frontend QA regression tests that are needed.
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Pros
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  • Load testing with useful graphical interface tools to watch real time performance
  • Flexible configuration for monitoring utilities
  • Historical tracking for baseline performance before and after upgrades
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Microsoft
  • automation
  • integrations
  • support
  • community
  • features
  • easy to use
  • documentation
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Learning Oracles testing language "OpenScript" is a challenge, and for less technical people could be a problem
  • Sometimes the applications automatic updates cause more problems than they solve
  • The cost of the suite is higher than some competing applications
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Microsoft
  • UI
  • API
  • Performance
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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Microsoft
I find Playwright very intuitive and generally do not have any trouble using it on a daily basis. However, I do have coworkers with more limited experience in software who have struggled immensely in learning to use Playwright properly. Playwright is very well documented which helps if you plan to use AI to help you write any test automation (which I generally don't recommend, but is an option).
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Oracle Application Testing Suite is much more useful and we work more than ZAPTEST because it is a life cycle tool that allows us to define and manage your application test process, validate the functionality of the application and ensure that your applications work under load. Implement web applications and web services in less time while maximizing the efficiency of the tests.
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Microsoft
We selected Playwright over the rest for several reasons. The learning curve is faster, making it easier for our team to get up to speed quickly. The setup is pretty straithtforwared, minimal configurartion needed and a great example included in the configuration which includes all the basics to start writing using that spec as a placeholder. Compared to Cypress, Playwright support multiple browsers out of the box, giving us broader testing coverage. Appium is great for mobile testing, but extremely slow.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Some of our applications had struggled with performing well under high load times and was adversely affecting the usage of our client services. Using Oracle Application Testing Suite we were able to diagnose some of the architectural flaws and helped make our apps more performant.
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Microsoft
  • Usable
  • customisable
  • extendable
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