A new journey of web automation

While talking about web automation, the very first thing comes to mind is usually Selenium.

It appears that Selenium is the most popular solution of web automation. Hands down, no dispute. Even many job descriptions list “experienced of Selenium” as a must requirement.

We’ve been working with Cypress for a while. Comparing with Selenium, I have some very different experiences.

Thanks to the fancy GUI tool. Live debugging is easy with Cypress. You can exactly check every step.

Of course, it also takes screenshots automatically on failure. Furthermore, it provides video clips of entire test suite!

Cypress runs test right in browser. Selenium makes remote call to browser. Apparently, it’s easy to figure out why Cypress runs faster.

By far, we execute 79 tests in 11 minutes.

If you are familiar with Selenium, you must realize that dealing with chromedriver is somehow a hard job. Platform changes or version updates might cause testing failure.

With Cypress, no need to worry about that kind of compatibility problem. You just focus on test.

Until now, to conclude our journey, I’ll say, give it a shot!

We look forward to exploring more possibilities of web automation.

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