Why We Walked Away from Cypress - Maciej Wyrodek
Why We Walked Away from Cypress - Maciej Wyrodek

Why We Walked Away from Cypress - Maciej Wyrodek

Software Testing Unleashed - QA, DevEx & Quality Engineering


04.09.2025 • 44 Min.

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.