Migrate from Playwright
Playwright teams often adopt QAlity when QA wants non-developers to own regression, or when maintaining specs outpaces delivery. Playwright stays a strong fit for developer-owned, code-first automation. QAlity is a better fit when recording, AI authoring, and cloud schedules should live in one product.
QAlity does not plug into CI/CD as a Playwright replacement job. Use scheduled Cloud plans for QA-led regression. Keep Playwright in CI only if you still need developer pipeline gates.
Migration pathMigration path
Treat one Playwright spec (or describe block) as one QAlity test case when it covers a single journey.
Use the Recorder for the primary flow. Add assertions in the step editor or with AI step generation while recording.
Where Playwright used fixtures or loops for valid/invalid data, use case variations and a Data Profile instead of duplicating cases.
Point staging, QA, and production URLs at Environments instead of hard-coded base URLs in code.
Bundle suites into test plans and schedule them in Cloud Execution for nightly or pre-release runs.
Use Execution History, screenshots, and PDF reports for pass/fail evidence. Enable Auto-Heal for locator drift after UI changes.
What maps from PlaywrightWhat maps from Playwright
| Playwright idea | In QAlity |
|---|---|
| Spec / test file | Test case |
test.describe group | Test suite |
| Project / config per env | Environment |
| Parameterized / data-driven tests | Case variations + Data Profile |
| Trace viewer | Execution History + screenshots + PDF |
| Cron / CI schedule for QA regression | Scheduled test plan (no CI/CD hook) |
When to keep PlaywrightWhen to keep Playwright
- Deep custom framework logic, shared page-object libraries, or in-repo DSLs
- Low-level browser protocol or DevTools-heavy automation
- Developer-owned deploy gates that must stay inside the application repo
For those cases, run QAlity for QA-owned journeys and keep Playwright where engineering ownership is required.