Efficiency Comparison of Employee Management Automation Using Selenium and Playwright: A Case Study of Technology Consulting Company

The research employed a case study methodology to investigate a technology consulting company. The company implements an employee management application to facilitate the approval procedure for granting employee benefits. Before approval, the procedure of gathering and analyzing allowance data is conducted. The current procedure requires manual processing of each task individually, with each permission list taking approximately 3 to 5 minutes. This approach is not only time-consuming but also highly prone to errors, leading to inefficiencies and inconsistent outputs that fail to meet the company’s standards. An effective solution to this problem is to develop an automated program using Selenium and Playwright, alongside the Python programming language. The program will be created following the agile software development methodology, and its testing will involve both black box testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). After successfully developing both automation programs, a detailed comparison was conducted using data from 10 allowance lists. Testing showed that the Selenium automation program completed all operations in 55.03 and 49.25 seconds, while the Playwright program required only 47.14 and 47.71 seconds. These results indicate that the Playwright automation program demonstrates a higher level of efficiency compared to Selenium.