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title: "Enterprise Selenium to Playwright Migration | TestShift"
description: "Plan and execute a governed Selenium to Playwright migration with TypeScript architecture, phased delivery, measurable quality gates, and a safe cutover path."
canonical: "https://www.test-shift.com/services/playwright-migration/"
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Canonical URL: https://www.test-shift.com/services/playwright-migration/

Legacy modernization

# Migrate from Selenium to Playwright without losing control

Replace a fragile rewrite with an evidence-driven migration program that protects delivery while the new platform earns trust.

 [Discuss your project](/contact/)

## Start with a scoped migration assessment

1. First conversation

### Check fit before committing

Discuss your current stack, release constraints, and migration goals. Agree on the assessment scope and fee before any paid work begins.
1. Assessment

### Review a representative sample

Review selected tests and CI workflows. Identify what to keep, migrate, or redesign, and choose a pilot that exposes the real risks.
1. Your deliverables

### A written migration decision plan

Receive a prioritized risk map, pilot recommendation, and next-step backlog. Decide whether to continue with implementation; a full migration is a separate engagement.

## The real migration risk is operational

  

A successful migration changes more than the browser driver. It aligns test boundaries, ownership, CI signals, fixtures, data, and team habits around a maintainable TypeScript platform.

Big-bang rewrites stall because the old suite still carries release knowledge. TestShift maps that knowledge, selects a representative pilot, and creates explicit retirement criteria before legacy coverage is removed.

## What the engagement establishes

### A migration map

Inventory suites by business risk, runtime, ownership, and maintenance cost so sequence follows evidence rather than file count.

  

### A production-grade foundation

Define TypeScript conventions, fixtures, authentication, test data, reporting, and CI boundaries before parallel delivery scales.

  

### A controlled cutover

Use pilot acceptance criteria, parity decisions, quality gates, and explicit deletion rules to retire Selenium safely.

## How the work moves

1. ### Architecture and portfolio review

Review suite topology, failure signals, CI constraints, product risk, and team ownership.
1. ### Representative pilot

Build one end-to-end slice that proves conventions, runtime behavior, evidence, and operability.
1. ### Sequenced migration system

Turn the pilot into repeatable patterns, review gates, ownership boundaries, and a retirement backlog.

## Best suited for

- R&D leaders carrying a slow or unreliable Selenium estate
- QA architects who need a migration path rather than a tool demo
- Platform teams standardizing Playwright and TypeScript across squads

> He built a unified testing infrastructure across UI, API, and database layers. The result was a stable, reliable project that delivered consistent outcomes.

  Elad Tuviana · QA Manager · Arad Technologies

Legacy modernization

## Turn migration uncertainty into an engineering plan

Bring the current suite, constraints, and release risks. Leave with the decisions that should shape the first safe phase.

  [Book a Strategy Call](/contact/)

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