alternative to Selenium

Cypress

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

Tests across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, run in parallel by default.

Integrated end-to-end testing framework written in Node.js and using W3C Webdriver API. Developed at @browserstack

End-to-end tests in JavaScript or TypeScript over WebDriver, in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge.

About

Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

Owner: Cypress.io organisation
Stars: 51k
Forks: 3.6k
Latest: v16.3.0
Last push: 2026-11-12
Terms: Open source
Created: 2015, 11 years ago
Release cadence: about 14 days between releases
Active contributors: 21+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Stars over 32 days: 2026-10-12 51,0472026-11-12 51,026

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