#AskRaghav | Playwright vs Cypress: Which one should you use for your end-to-end testing?

Cypress vs Playwright | Which is better | How to select the right tool for your project
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*Application Support:*

Playwright: Web applications that runs on browser
Mobile Apps that run on browser

Cypress: Web applications that runs on browser
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*Cost:*

Playwright: Completely Free and Open source

Cypress: Cypress Test Runner (Free) | Cypress Dashboard (Paid)
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*Setup & Installation:*

Playwright: Easy to set up

Cypress: Easier than Playwright
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*Languages:*

Playwright: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, C#

Cypress: JavaScript & TypeScript
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*Browsers:*

Playwright: Chromium, Firefox, and Safari

Cypress: As of now no direct support for IE and Safari
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*Performance:*

Playwright: faster test execution times

Cypress: Little slower than Playwright
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*Reporting:*

Playwright: built-in reporting options

Cypress: mocha reporters | Cypress Dashboard
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*Debugging:*

Playwright: Good options (trace viewer)

Cypress: Better with direct browser access and time-travel
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*QA Dev Friendly:*

Playwright: Yes

Cypress: Yes
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*How to select between Cypress & Playwright*

Application complexity:

Testing needs:
If you need advanced debugging and time-traveling capabilities, Cypress may be a better option because it has built-in time-travel support and a more powerful debugging experience

Skills and experience of your team:
If your team has less experience in end-to-end testing, Cypress may be a better option because it has a more user-friendly API

Community and resources:
Cypress has been around for longer but both have good Documentation and Community

Budget:
Both are Free with Cypress having an additional paid feature (Cypress Dashboard) if needed

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[gabrielthomaz]

Currently, I'm migrating my test cases in Cypress to Playwright because of two points: Global Setup, which Cypress doesn't have. This feature turns things easier to orchestrate when the project is huge. Another point its about supporting multiple browsers or tabs in one test.

[ahamedabdulrahman]

Time travel option is made available for Playwright too. We can also do screenshot comparison in Playwright. Nowadays, I dont think Cypress is adding any more value.

[ElisaLjaa]

QA here! First time I'm approaching to test automation and I found Playwright more friendly than Cypress (I tried to create a POC with both). In my opinion, Playwright has a great point of strenght: Codegen. With Codegen I was able to create a test suite in minutes. I also tried experimentalStudio in Cypress but isn't fast/smart/accurate as Codegen. So if you are new to coding and want to automate tests I suggest Playwright

[vasanthkrishna]

Thanks for highlighting the direct comparisons between these two tools. Market is ever evolving with new tools & features.

[surajdate]

Thank you Raghav Sir.
Keep motivating us.

[domitorid]

I don't agree with a point that a paid option in Cypress is a good thing. Because as much as such projects evolve - the free part tends to be/become less documented, obscure, deprived of real-world use cases version of a paid one. And serves to be an outlet for cashing out on frustrated users.

[karan]

I still think Selenium is the real Champ for handling almost everything when automated testing is concerned. These extra features are not even used when you scale your application to enterprise level as most of our tests start running in headless mode in a container.

[mireyaitzelam]

I love your channel, thank so much for sharing your knowledge with us !

[naveen_...]

Hello Raghav.
Can you please make a video on Data Driven Testing with excel using Cypress.

[basurajs]

@raghav, Thanks for your guidance on new automation tools. Could you please make a video on AI Powered Test Automation Tools and how it is different from playwright. Thanks

[hamidhos]

Hello. Thank you for the great educational videos you make.
Which of the following software do you choose to test modern software?
Cypress or Playwright or Selenium ?

[rezatm]

I've been using playwright dur to parallelism

[Johnsahu-mk]

Playwright is very very super compare than all others tools.

[King_Kohli__loveever]

Playwright anytime as per my thoughts 🙌🏻✅

[hamzabouchoucha]

hello great video great work, sir do u have any comparaison between robotframwork and cypress ? continue the great job

[rameshbabu]

One doubt here in the video. is playwright support mobile web browser ? like how we use it in Iphone or samsung devices and the browsers?

[ytadi]

Now Playwright has UIMode like Cypress Dashboard and it’s

[Shahzilrind]

How to create UI interface with a button that triggers a Playwright test.?

[mutasimhasanmuhi]

I seriously need help with this topic. Please, kindly help me with choosing one tool.
I have recently joined a company where there is no Senior SQA Engineer and I am told to conduct automation testing for one of their product. I am good at Java and I self tought myself a little bit of Typescript.
Now, I am very efficient in Selenium and am building up my skill with Playwright TS. I have also done projects on Playwritht Java but Playwright TS felt a lot comfortable for me.
I have done one automation for their project with Selenium. I have faced flaky test issue and other issues with Selenium. That is why I have decided to go with Playwright TS for the current project that I am working on.
My project manager, who has very little idea of Software testing, told me to do study on Cypress. Personally, I don't feel comfortable with Cypress. Is this comparison enough to show and convince to keep my track on playwright?

[jainanup]

Which is latest tool? I hear tools with low code, no code any guidance