Migration Tutorials

Playwright Migration Tutorials and Guides

Migration guides and tutorials of switching from Cypress to Playwright, made by engineers for engineers

We collaborated wih dozen of teams that migrated from Cypress to Playwright. We discuss the cost of migration, migration steps and timeline, tips for smooth migration and adoption, use of AI tools to automate the migration.

Cypress and @playwright/test are two competing integration testing frameworks. We have been using Cypress for a long time but recently made a decision to migrate our Cypress tests to Playwright, all 400 of them. It is absolutely worth it for the speed and reliability gains (a future post)... However, it meant a lot of manual work! Or so I thought...

Discover why @playwright/test is rapidly gaining popularity in the world of QA engineering, surpassing tools like Cypress and Selenium. Dive into the reasons behind this fast adoption, understand its advantages, and learn from real-world user case studies.

We will explore the reasons for migrating from Cypress to Playwright, the benefits of using Playwright, and the practical steps to successfully transition your end-to-end testing framework.

My Playwright test suite runs 34% faster than the equivalent Cypress tests on CircleCI. On my local dev machine, Playwright gives a 5x speedup over Cypress. This is not a rigorous measurement, but it’s clear there’s a substantial speed difference between the two.

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