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Learn from the costly mistakes of selecting Cypress for web test automation.
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Table of Contents:
· My Warnings Against Cypress
· Time Frame
· “Many Issues with Cypress”
· “Cypress Cloud: Very Expensive”
· Cypress: Poor Performance
· Cypress: “Memory Issues”
· Cypress: “Architecture prone to flakiness”
· Cypress: “Misleading simplicity”
· Cypress: Poor “Browser support and support for mobile viewport”
· Cypress: “Lacks the support for multiple tabs and browsers”
· Cypress: “Random errors during tests due to Cypress’s iFrame Execution Model”
· Lessons:
My Warnings Against Cypress
Long-time readers know I have been against using Cypress for web test automation.