POC: Migrate Cypress to Playwright for Initial Evaluation

[nihal467]

Features to be evaluated

• Faster execution time compared to existing cypress
• Auto-waiting mechanism
• Mobile emulation support in test
• Integrate with BrowserStack to check cloud-based testing
• Multiple tab test support
• Support Third-party reporting tools eg: Allure

[bodhish]

What are we missing with Cypress?, also why not use Jest?

[nihal467]

Jest

• Cypress lacks auto-waiting for delayed API responses; Playwright handles this automatically, reducing flaky tests.
• Cypress 13.0+ discontinued third-party integrations for test coverage report generation
• Cypress runs tests in one browser at a time; Playwright supports in-built multi-browser parallel testing.
• Cypress is slower compared to Playwright.

Note: I am still working on the POC to understand if it's worth doing the migration

• Jest isn't ideal for E2E testing and lacks a head UI, making debugging slower with only console logs and breakpoints.

[nihal467]

Closing the POC of Playwright migration because of the following reasons:

• Flaky tests are still occurring even after using the await functionality.
• We cannot freeze a particular step in the test video replay to understand which APIs were called during a specific action.
• Migrating all the files, even with a specifically configured chatbot, can be energy- and time-consuming, which doesn’t provide real value as debugging the code might take time.
• For integrating BrowserStack and commenting on each URL PR preview, we need to run separate GitHub actions and maintain all configurations ourselves, whereas Cypress offers single-click cloud integration, which is easier.