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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Framework popularity and downloads
- WebDriver technological variations

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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Getting Started

Cross-Browser Testing Methodologies

Challenges Faced by Front-End Web Application Developers

Top Web Test Automation Frameworks

Matching Personas and Use Cases to Testing Frameworks

Introducing the Leading Front-End Web Development Frameworks

Map the Pillars of a Dev Testing Strategy for Web Applications

Core Capabilities of Top JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks

Measuring Test Coverage of a Web Application

Working with the Selenium Framework

Working with the Cypress Framework

Working with the Playwright Framework

Working with the Puppeteer Framework

Complementing Code-Based Testing with Low-Code Test Automation

Wrapping Up

Appendix

An Overview of the Web Testing Market

Framework popularity and downloads