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Why We Walked Away from Cypress - Maciej Wyrodek


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Switching From Cypress to Playwright: A Real-World Guide to Test Automation Migration

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"There is no second testing environment such close to production like production itself." - Maciej Wyrodek

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.

Maciej Wyrodek is a knowledge seeker, Quality Consultant, Mentor and Trainer - specialised in process improvement, and Test automation.

Maciej is always looking for a new opportunity to challenge and hone his skills. He has gathered experience working for different companies with different working models, From small to big corporations, From Product via In-house development to software house. Thanks to that he has a wide perspective on testing quality and delivering value.
During his stay in Dublin he realised his passion: Knowledge sharing.
His strong belief is that what makes us human is the ability to learn and share knowledge.
That is why for the almost decade he has been doing his best to give back to the IT community, by writing articles, recording videos on his channel Itea Morning and speaking on conferences.

Highlights:

  • Cypress forced expensive workarounds—team fought the framework daily, not flowed with it.
  • Hackathon beat spreadsheets: seven tools, real tests, one day revealed Playwright's clear dominance.
  • AI-generated test clicked randomly for six minutes—funny demo, serious warning about blind automation.
  • Migration took a year because daily business always competes with technical debt cleanup.
  • Block hosts missing in Playwright surprised them—assumed features aren't always there, even basics.
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