Comments on the claims of “7 ways Cypress is different”. All False, Wrong or Lie

Testers: Learn to test a testing framework/tool’s claims

Zhimin Zhan
12 min readJul 7, 2023

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On Cypress's website, it claims (still there, as of 2023–07–03).

Most Cypress testers should have known this: more and more people switched (or are about to) to Playwright. When I say something (as a former research scientist and a testing engineer), I will quote results to support my statement. Below are Google results for “cypress playwright migrate” or “playwright cypress migrate”.

See the movement! There is one Reddit post from the Google results with the title “Cypress.io is about to die, you should migrate your projects”.

“But Cypress is most likely going to close down soon.

They were already having trouble converting free users to paid users, but then Playwright came along and literally destroyed them.

A lot of folks hated

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.