From Cypress to Playwright - Saleor's Voyage

This is the story of Saleor's path from our early days of automated testing, to adapting to new tools, and finally to where we stand today with a more robust and efficient testing framework.

Saleor recently migrated our end-to-end test suite from Cypress to Playwright. In this article we share our journey, the challenges we encountered, and how the transition unfolded.

How it started

Let's take a trip back to 2020. It's the beginning of the pandemic and I'm diving into adding the first storefront end-to-end tests written in Cypress. Back then, we didn't have a CI/CD setup - GitHub history shows that our deployment workflow was established in 2021.