Why “Test Replay” in E2E Test Automation is Not Useful in Real Agile Projects? Part 1

This kind of ‘feature’ is good for demonstration, not for Real E2E Test Automation.

The latest Cypress release (2023–09) introduced a new feature, “Test Replay”.

Test Replay: let testers explore, run and maybe even debug tests with a time travel experience complete with watch mode.

The marketing team of cypress.io even wrote an article on its Press & Media page, titled “Cypress Unveils Test Replay, Bringing New Speed and Efficiency to Automated Testing”.

cypress.io is wrong again! This article explains why.

Let me start by briefly touching upon Real Agile Projects: a quote from Kent Beck (father of Agile)’s classic book.

I have been conducting ‘daily production releases’ practice for all my own apps since 2012 (and some clients’ ones). To me, it is so natural to software development. The enabler of frequent production releases is real Continuous Automated E2E (via UI) Testing. (see my formula, 100% free, W3C standard-based and open-source frameworks: raw…