Mar 3 · 10 min read · Frontend Testing Tools: Playwright, Cypress, and Testing Library Frontend testing has matured significantly. The tools are better, the patterns are clearer, and the excuses for not testing are fewer. But choosing between Playwright, Cypress, and Test...
Join discussionFeb 19 · 4 min read · ON THIS PAGE Why Do We Need cy.task? When Should You Use It? The Critical Difference: cy.task vs. Helper Functions Step-by-Step Implementation Guide Step 1: cypress.config.ts (The Backend Logic) Step 2: cypress/support/commands.ts (The Command ...
Join discussionFeb 12 · 9 min read · Why Traditional E2E Testing Fails Modern Applications Legacy testing frameworks were designed for a different era of web development. Selenium WebDriver operates outside the browser, communicating through a JSON wire protocol that introduces latency ...
Join discussionFeb 12 · 11 min read · Cypress vs Playwright: Choosing the Right End-to-End Testing Framework for Modern Applications When your production deployment fails at 2 AM because a critical user flow broke silently, the conversation about end-to-end testing frameworks becomes urg...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 3 min read · One of the most frustrating things about moving from local development to a CI/CD pipeline (like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins) is debugging. You run your tests locally in the Cypress runner, and you see everything: cy.log() messages in the C...
Join discussionFeb 10 · 3 min read · As an SDET, we often rely on the standard npx cypress run command. It works great for running everything at once, but in the real world, things are rarely that simple. Sometimes you need to run tests in a specific sequence. Other times, you need to t...
Join discussionDec 19, 2025 · 2 min read · Inspired by BulletProof React, I applied its codebase architecture concepts to the Umami codebase. This article focuses only on the testing strategies used in Umami codebase. Prerequisites Testing in Umami codebase — Part 1.0 Testing in Umami co...
Join discussionDec 18, 2025 · 2 min read · Inspired by BulletProof React, I applied its codebase architecture concepts to the Umami codebase. This article focuses only on the testing strategies used in Umami codebase. Prerequisites Testing in Umami codebase — Part 1.0 Testing in Umami co...
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