Cypress is Replacing Selenium in Automation.

Selenium & Cypress both are Open Source tools.But Cypress is much faster than Selenium in all aspects.Here is the main difference b/w these tools.

Selenium

Software Requirements for installing Selenium-

Java SDK, Eclipse IDE, Selenium Java Client driver,

WebDrivers (CromeDriver for chrome, Mozilla GeckoDriver for Firefox, etc.)

Writing your first test

This test code will open the chrome browser and navigate to https://google.com/ and search for the keyword “Selenium Rocks!”

Cypress

Software Requirements for installing Cypress-

Node.js, Visual Studio Code

Run the following commands to starts with Cypress:

npm install cypress –save-dev

npm cypress open

Writing Your First Test

This test code will open the chrome browser and navigate to https://google.com/ and search for the keyword “Cypress Rocks!”