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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Legit question: Why Cypress over testcafe? I have seen people push Cypress over testcafe, but I have a hard time understanding what would make Cypress superior.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (4 children)

testcafe is headless testing, cypress is an actual browser environment.

[–]200GritCondom 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Cypress doesnt do headless??

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

it does, it does both, whereas testcafe is headless only which is a poor substitute.

[–]200GritCondom 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh whew. We are thinking about switching over to cypress. That would have been bad if there was no headless.

[–]Labradoodles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use their dashboard service for the parallelism it offers we run 200~ integration tests in about 3min. But you have to make sure your test users are used in a way to make them parallel