Selenium Vs Cypress: Which One You Should Choose?

Selenium vs Cypress, Which One Should You Choose? This is very common question i have been asked lots of time. Lets find out.

Contents

Selenium vs Cypress
About Cypress
Top 5 Manual Testing Interview Questions for Freshers or 0-1 Year of Experience
12 Ways Software Testers Think Differently From Others
11 Resume Tips That Will Help You Get Hired
API Testing with Playwright : How to Test API with Playwright (in Java) | Part 2
How to Test API with Playwright?
7 Reason You Are a Lazy Software Tester

Selenium vs Cypress

Cypress and Selenium are both automation frameworks for web app testing but cypress is new player where as the Selenium is very well knwown automation framework since 2005 ish.

About Cypress

Cypress is a JavaScript test automation solution for Testing web applications on Chrome.
Mostly works with different syntax(similar to jasmine 2 and mocha JS).
Can be used by frontend developers and test automation engineers to write testcases in JavaScript.
Cypress also supports the Mocha test framework so the core technologies in which you would develop your web test automation are Java Script on top of Mocha.

Support for	Dev Language	Browser	Test Framework	Maturity/ Documentation
Selenium	Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Objective C...	Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, Edge	Mocha JS, protractor, Webdriver JS, webIO, TestNG and many more
Cypress	Javascript	Chrome	Mocha JS