Alternatives to Applitools

When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

This is a trending topic on Automation testing for E2E web applications.

I have used Protractor and Jasmine for automation testing frameworks in JavaScript by using the Selenium web driver manager.

Now, new guy in town Cypress does not use Selenium and runs directly in your app without any json wire protrocol, but it does not support parallel testing or mobile testing.

Have you experienced both? Should I stick with old and known ?

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