The “#1 Cypress Ambassador” Is Now Open to Finding Playwright Jobs
If you’re a Cypress tester, you might also want to consider an exit strategy. But I do not recommend Playwright; read on.
Substack version of this article.
Many Cypress testers heard of Filip Hric, who is quite active (mostly promoting and teaching) in the Cypress community. He was featured first on the Cypress Ambassador page.
Long-time readers know that I rarely mention individuals by name in my articles (over 500 to date). Why? Real test automation engineers are extremely rare (even at FAANG), we can’t have high expectations. I don’t know Filip Hric at all, the main rival of Cypress is Playwright, which I don’t use anyway (I use raw Selenium WebDrivber + RSpec, pure free, open-source frameworks). If there is something I am against, it is the notorious “Cypress Ambassador”.
The simple reason I quote the name in this article: being an ambassador means publicly promoting something, which naturally makes one subject to public scrutiny. In this article, I simply listed several of his posts and comments and made…
