Cypress.io vs. WebdriverIO

Cypress.io

Cypress.io

24 Reviews and Ratings

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cypress.io	Score 7.3 out of 10	N/A	Cypress (or Cypress.io, also the name of the company in Atlanta that develops the tool) is a testing tool with the capability to run tests across multiple browsers, that aims to make setting up, writing, running and debugging tests easy.	N/A
WebdriverIO	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	WebdriverIO, an OpenJS Foundation project, is a next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js. It can be run on the WebDriver Protocol for true cross-browser testing as well as Chrome DevTools Protocol for Chromium based automation using Puppeteer.	N/A

Pricing

Cypress.io

WebdriverIO

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Pricing Offerings
Cypress.io	WebdriverIO
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Cypress.io	WebdriverIO
Considered Both Products	Cypress.io Kim Mejares Senior Quality Engineer Chose Cypress.io Execution speed and interactive debugging tool is very easy. you can make changes in the fly and test will run automatically, thus saving more time debugging your code. Can easily be intergrated to to CI/CD pipeline. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cypress.io Easier to use from the start. Back to front workflow integration makes it more fun to use than Selenium. Usable for free other than very expensive Smartbear solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cypress.io Cypress.io is easy to start with and is independent of other automation tools. Unless we are looking for automating every edge case, Cypress.io can do it without using any plugins. Also, when a test fails, we can travel back to the state in which the test failed (aka time … Incentivized Helpful?	WebdriverIO Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Chose WebdriverIO Stands out as a clear leader. The fact that there are so many integrations and the simplicity of writing code should make you want to select WebdriverIO. However, the full-feature nature of this framework is what sets it apart. I hope to be able to get this framework going soon! Incentivized Helpful? Anurag Bharti Quality Assurance Specialist Chose WebdriverIO 1. WebdriverIO is used for automating both browsers and native mobile apps. 2. Selenium is being used on most of the languages except JavaScript (TypeScript) and our front-end development is in Reactjs Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WebdriverIO Other tools we selected don't work in our application, it does or doesn't support multiple frames or need more tweaking just to make it works. When testing out WebdriverIO it just works as expected, no need to do such walk around to make it works multiple frames. It also can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WebdriverIO Was missing a few from the list, but we also tried: Jest Puppeteer Nightwatch.js Webdriver.js Webdriver.io compared to the above ticked more boxes. Some of the things we looked for: Async/sync support Popularity within the community Support for screenshots Access to … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Cypress.io	WebdriverIO
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cypress.io	WebdriverIO
Likelihood to Recommend	Automating a test is very easy when you start with Cypress.io. It is extremely easy to set up and use. Also, debugging a failed test is hassle-free because of its time travel feature. We can do both web UI and API testing with Cypress.io and the only prerequisite is some knowledge in Javascript. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I haven't seen a use case that WDIO can't cover, even including integrations into performance/load testing and mobile! The fact that there are boilerplate projects and code examples galore make it so simple to understand and see real-world PoCs of concepts you need to understand. I highly recommend WDIO! Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review
Pros	autimation of end to end testing of web UI and api Getting insight on failing and passing tests Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Quick start when running the test, easy to maintain the framework. Faster and has vast community support on the internet. No need to Build an Automation framework from scratch. Can be integrated with different services. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Support Mobile Automation Can Test in multiple browser. Testing when browser opens multiple tabs and windows this doesnt work. File upload not supported Incentivized Kim Mejares Senior Quality Engineer Read full review	Tasks written in this can only be debugged using the provided WDIO task runner We cannot set breakpoints within tasks but have WDIO pause the run between commands. It is not as customized as Protractor. It deviates from generic syntax which may confuse selenium developers having knowledge of other languages. Incentivized Anurag Bharti Quality Assurance Specialist Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Highly satisfied and [a] big fan. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Execution speed and interactive debugging tool is very easy. you can make changes in the fly and test will run automatically, thus saving more time debugging your code. Can easily be intergrated to to CI/CD pipeline Incentivized Kim Mejares Senior Quality Engineer Read full review	1. WebdriverIO is used for automating both browsers and native mobile apps. 2. Selenium is being used on most of the languages except JavaScript (TypeScript) and our front-end development is in Reactjs Incentivized Anurag Bharti Quality Assurance Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	It runs faster, thus improves test effeciency Maintenance cost, tool is free and helpfull community is present for support. Though its free tool, initial learning curve still required to understand the tool works and how to fit it in your system. Incentivized Kim Mejares Senior Quality Engineer Read full review	Gives easy access to Saucelabs Devices and VMs to the frontend developers who don't have to fiddle around with connection to Saucelabs itself - so ROI on Saucelabs as webdriverIO is free The small learning curve to actually get set up and running - our working framework was written in a few days Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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