Choose a Reliable, Trustworthy and Sustainable E2E Test Automation Solution, Don’t Fall into Cypress Mess Again

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The conversation between Bob and his manager (underlined text), from the classic Pixar Movie: “The.Incredibles”.

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Today, I stumbled upon an old LinkedIn post from November 2023 by Tomasz W., titled “I Don’t Work with Bullies.” The content is about a frustrated QA engineer by Cypress.io kind of forced Cypress users to pay for their commercial product.

Its title image: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-dont-work-bullies-tomasz-wojciechowski-avqhc/

“Cypress, by surprise broke CI pipelines and blocked the development in all companies using the ‘cypress-cloud’ plugin. They did that without any warning or notification in a framework being under the MIT license”

The frustration with Cypress mentioned above is not an isolated case, even AI took notice. According to ChatGPT, Cypress falls into the “Struggling / At Risk” category: