Respond to a Disagreement Article, “Fact check: Is Cypress Really Dying?”

A real fact-check. Beware of cunning tricks in technical writing.

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In preparing the article “A Follow-up for My Article, ‘Cypress.io is Dying’ After 3 Months”, I found one article that criticized my original article, “Cypress.io is Dying”, by an author with 10K+ followers on Medium.

Fact check: Is Cypress Really Dying?

Despite many wrongness in the above article, which I will prove in a moment, I have to say some positives about it:

• Writing an article instead of posting short comments to a disagreement.
• No personal attacks despite a harsh tone (which is fine)
• List some objective benchmarks (but in the wrong way), which I will use to prove he is very wrong (as this idiom)

This is my first article that directly responds to a disagreement. Because I write articles for my daughter and have been enjoying the real benefits (such as daily production releases) of my Test Automation and Continuous Testing approach, others' opinions do…