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Why We Walked Away from Cypress - Maciej Wyrodek

Software Testing Unleashed · 2025-09-04 · 44 min

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playwright vs cypresscypress to playwright migrationtest automation framework migrationend to end testing toolstest automation best practices

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Switching From Cypress to Playwright: A Real-World Guide to Test Automation Migration Free e-book: The 7 success factors of software testing. 25 years of project experience in one 33-page workbook, now also in English Get it for free "There is no second testing environment such close to production like production itself." - 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.

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