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Stay, coexist, or migrate

Enterprise reality: Selenium is not wrong. Decide with flake data, speed, hiring, and cost — not Twitter hype.

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Honest comparison

Selenium: language flexibility, Grid maturity, huge legacy. Playwright/Cypress: auto-wait, tracing, faster authoring. Tradeoffs, not winners.

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Comparison table in MIGRATION.md: 6 dimensions (speed, flakes, hiring, CI cost, learning curve, legacy).

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Chapter learning outcomes
  • Migration criteria
  • Hybrid coexistence
  • Playwright/Cypress comparison
  • Decision memo

Clear these before you leave

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Decision memo

One-page memo to CTO: recommend stay/hybrid/migrate with evidence.