An Overview of the Web Testing Market
Learn about the web testing market and how Cypress leads with high downloads and strong community support.
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The web testing market constantly changes, and newer versions of existing frameworks are being developed with brand-new solutions.
Note: A great resource to learn about what’s trending, what’s declining, and how big the community is behind leading open-source technologies is the npm trends website.
When focusing on the top four frameworks available for front-end developers that support JavaScript, Cypress emerges as the leading framework.
Framework popularity and downloads
As highlighted in an npm trends report, Cypress has over three million weekly downloads compared to Selenium WebDriver, which has just over two million downloads. Keep in mind that in this resource, we’re only seeing the JavaScript flavor of these frameworks. For frameworks such as Selenium and Playwright that support more language bindings, the market share and downloads will probably be higher, as shown in the following figure; however, here we are focusing only on JavaScript testing:
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