
E47 - The Hidden Playwright Advantage Developers Miss - Maciej Kusz
Published: April 2, 2026
Duration: 21:57
Why Python might be the smarter choice for your Playwright tests
In this episode, I talk with Maciej Kusz, program chair of the Testwarez conference in Poland, about why Playwright doesn't have to mean TypeScript. Maciej has been using Playwright with Python for years and shows that Python testers can leverage the framework just as effectively—if they know which PyTest plugins to use and where the documentation actually lives. We dig into the practical trade-offs: what TypeScript does better out of the box, where Python offers more flexibility for QA work beyond the browser, and why stable tests ar...