Too Many Failed JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks!

It is a sign of being wrong!

In recent years, I have witnessed a number of test automation attempts using the following automation framework in JavaScript:

• PhantomJS (deprecated)
• WebDriverIO
• Protractor (deprecated)
• TestCafe
• Puppeteer
• Cypress
• Playwright

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All those test automation attempts shared a common fate: Failure, assessed against the objective Definition of End-to-End Test Automation Success. As a comparison, I have achieved 100% success with raw Selenium + RSpec since 2011 for client projects and my own.

When I screened Résumés, any mentions of the above JS framework would score a negative point. It is much better to hire a complete layman (check out my workshop articles).

A run of WhenWise End-to-End Regression suite, consisting of 571 raw Selenium + RSpec tests, in BuildWise CT server.