Why We Walked Away from Cypress - Maciej Wyrodek

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Switching From Cypress to Playwright: A Real-World Guide to Test Automation Migration

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"There is a lot of our custom admin stuff like managing artworks, managing the copyrights, managing work with the artist. So there is a lot of custom code there. So it's not just simple E-commerce." - Maciej Wyrodek

In this episode, I talk with Maciej Wyrodek about moving from Cypress to Playwright. We talked about why Cypress started to work against the team: opinionated style, plugin churn, iFrames, flaky screenshots, and a pricing wall around parallel runs. Maciej's answer was a hands on hackathon with devs and testers. Playwright won. The migration starts with their top 10 flows and production smoke checks.

Maciej Wyrodek is a knowledge seeker, Quality Consultant, Mentor and Trainer - specialised in process improvement, and Test automation. Maciej is always looking for a new opportunity to challenge and hone his skills. He has gathered experience working for different companies with different working models, From small to big corporations, From Product via In-house development to software house. Thanks to that he has a wide perspective on testing quality and delivering value. During his stay in Dublin he realised his passion: Knowledge sharing. His strong belief is that what makes us human is the ability to learn and share knowledge. That is why for the almost decade he has been doing his best to give back to the IT community, by writing articles, recording videos on his channel Itea Morning and speaking on conferences.

Highlights:

• Cypress plugin churn, iFrames, flaky screenshots, and parallel pricing hurt productivity
• A joint hackathon led the team to choose Playwright
• Start migration with top business flows and production smoke tests
• Handle cookies, A B tests, and request interception in setup
• Autonomous testing bots clicked aimlessly and did not help

Kapitler

1. Switching Automation Frameworks (00:00:00)

2. Choosing Cypress: A Retrospective Decision (00:04:18)

3. Cypress Cloud Pricing Challenges (00:09:52)

4. Evaluating Cypress for Testing Framework (00:14:05)

5. Outdated Framework Documentation Frustration (00:18:57)

6. Tool Effectiveness with Small Sample (00:24:58)

7. Unexpected Challenges in Testing Setup (00:29:40)

8. Holiday Season: Focus on Maintenance (00:36:27)

9. AI Demo Feedback: Needs Improvement (00:40:44)