CredibleSoft Blog Selenium vs. Cypress: Which Test Automation Tool to Choose in 2025?

Back in 2023, I sat across from a frazzled QA lead at a client meeting. The project had been delayed—again—because their test suite was crawling. Regression tests were taking hours, the flaky tests kept breaking, and the team was at their wit’s end. Their automation suite? Built entirely on Selenium. Their Selenium-based tests were running for hours in their CI/CD pipeline, and a good chunk of them failed randomly. The team was burned out, and their velocity slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, a competitor had switched to Cypress a year earlier and was deploying to production twice as fast. The...