Cypress

Cypress is a great testing tool, and in some ways, its developer experience helped me finally decide to move into a QA role. It’s easier to grasp than other similar tools for testers coming from manual testing, but you do need to learn its specific traits to really master it and take full advantage of its capabilities. It’s also backed by a great community, and there are plugins for almost anything you can imagine. A large number of them are extremely useful and of really high quality. In my opinion, many of these plugins, or at least the functionalities that cover certain gaps, should be part of the core product. Although Cypress supports parallel execution, it doesn’t allow you to run tests in parallel locally or in CI/CD without either the premium Cypress Cloud product or the external open-source cypress-split plugin. I also believe that parallel execution should be part of the core open-source product, as it is with other similar tools. Cypress Cloud has some really cool and powerful features, like UI coverage and accessibility analysis without needing to instrument your test code. The Cypress Enterprise module in Cypress Cloud is also very valuable for achieving QA governance across all your Cypress projects organization-wide, but it’s an additional premium module. Overall, weighting the pros and cons, I highly recommend the Cypress tool!