So my team is mid-migration from Cypress to Playwright and honestly it’s going better than expected, but I wanted to hear from people who’ve gone the other direction or had a bad experience.
Our main reasons for switching:
- Multi-tab and multi-origin support (Cypress still struggles here)
- Better cross-browser coverage out of the box
playwright testCLI feels more flexible for our CI setup
We’re a team of 5 QAs in Poland, mostly doing e-commerce testing. The Cypress DX was great for onboarding juniors, I’ll give it that.
What I miss about Cypress:
- The time-travel debugger is genuinely chef’s kiss
- Error messages were more beginner-friendly
- Dashboard service was easy to set up
Playwright’s trace viewer is catching up though. Anyone else gone through this migration? Was it worth it long-term?
Yeah this is the one thing I keep coming back to. Nothing in Playwright matches that experience for visual debugging. The trace viewer is good but it’s not the same flow.
That said — we’re in South Korea and our pipeline runs on GitHub Actions. Playwright’s Docker image support is significantly cleaner.
mcr.microsoft.com/playwrightjust works, whereas Cypress Docker always felt a bit janky to configure for our monorepo.