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Is the testing pyramid still valid in 2026?
Everyone I follow on LinkedIn is either "the pyramid is dead, use the honeycomb" or "the pyramid was always right, you were just doing it wrong". For a modern SaaS with microservic…
What's a locator strategy that actually stays stable across UI refactors?
Devs refactor our React app roughly monthly. Every refactor breaks 20–30 tests because someone renamed a class or restructured a component. We've tried: - CSS selectors → break on…
How do you handle iframes in Cypress?
Payment iframe from Stripe. cy.get inside the iframe returns undefined. What is the current pattern?
Can you run Cypress in parallel without Cypress Cloud?
Cloud is pricey. Team asks if we can shard purely on GitHub Actions.
cy.intercept not matching a specific GraphQL mutation
I have 8 GraphQL calls hitting /graphql. cy.intercept('POST','/graphql') catches all of them but I only want to stub the CreateOrder mutation. Matching by req.body.operationName do…
Cypress vs Playwright — the honest 2026 take?
Existing Cypress suite, ~800 specs. Worth migrating or double down?