Considerations for web automation

Modern web application testing and automation come with their own set of challenges in terms of complexity. With all the great features packed within Cypress, it has its own limitations as well.

Limitations of Cypress

So far, we have reviewed in detail what Cypress can do, but it would be wise to also call out the things Cypress cannot do as of today. When considering test automation at an organizational scale, it is critical to gather clarity on how the tool fits in. Let us now list a few items that Cypress does not support as of today:

• It currently cannot drive two browsers in concurrency.
• It doesn’t provide support for multi-tabs in the browser.
• It only supports JavaScript for test cases.
• It currently does not support Safari or IE.
• It has limited support for iFrames (an element that loads another HTML element within a web page).
• The larger the test suite, the slower its execution in Cypress due to its underlying...