What Is Cypress And Should You Ben Using It For Your Automation Testing?

Cypress is one of the newer testing frameworks out, but what is it, and should you be using it?

This article will cover:

• What is Cypress
• Pros and Cons
• Should You Be Using It

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What is Cypress?

As stated previously Cypress is a testing framework. It is used for web testing automation. Web testing is also called front-end testing because you will be testing the user interface that the end-users are going to use once the application goes live. You may be thinking, we already have things such as Selenium, why do we need Cypress? Cypress can actually compliment the Selenium web driver and for newbies may be a completely better choice because of the learning/implementing curve.

Traditional testing frameworks have a lot of different components that must be thought about and implemented for end-to-end testing. Cypress tries to solve…