What are the limitations of Cypress, apart from it not being cross-browser? I'm asking because I've used TestCafe for a bit, but I'm curious about Cypress ...
Speaking from my experience when creating a POC, we couldn't use it because
it's Chrome/Electron only
each test is bound to a single origin
no support for multiple tabs
I will say, it was easy to use, write tests, and it was awesome to see its output. It really would've made developers hate functional tests a lot less. ymmv
Right ... point 1 (Chrome only) is a known issue, if you need cross browser testing then it's a no-go. Point 2 and 3 are indeed documented in their official docs:
I guess there's a large number of projects where these limitations are not a showstopper, but if you do need these particular features, well yes then Cypress is indeed not an option.
TestCafe with its "proxy" architecture is probably just a bit more flexible, OTOH for a very large percentage of projects you may not need that flexibility ... ymmv indeed.
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What are the limitations of Cypress, apart from it not being cross-browser? I'm asking because I've used TestCafe for a bit, but I'm curious about Cypress ...
Speaking from my experience when creating a POC, we couldn't use it because
I will say, it was easy to use, write tests, and it was awesome to see its output. It really would've made developers hate functional tests a lot less. ymmv
Right ... point 1 (Chrome only) is a known issue, if you need cross browser testing then it's a no-go. Point 2 and 3 are indeed documented in their official docs:
docs.cypress.io/guides/references/...
I guess there's a large number of projects where these limitations are not a showstopper, but if you do need these particular features, well yes then Cypress is indeed not an option.
TestCafe with its "proxy" architecture is probably just a bit more flexible, OTOH for a very large percentage of projects you may not need that flexibility ... ymmv indeed.