At the beginning of 2023, at Displate, we made a decision: „we are leaving Cypress as our main automation tool!"
This decision seemed simple, but it's now May 2025, and the process is still ongoing — with more than 70% of our tests still in Cypress.
So what went wrong?

I'll start with what led us to change:
We encountered many issues with Cypress — none were critical on their own, but together they added up to a death by a thousand cuts.
High maintenance costs, a different testing philosophy, lack of trust in the Cypress.io maintainers, and many other factors that I'll discuss during the presentation.

At for framework change...
at first glance, changing a framework seems like a straightforward technical decision.
But in reality, it's a huge operation full of traps, dilemmas, and unexpected challenges.

During the presentation, we will cover:
– How we convinced the organization to change the automation tool
– What happened that made the first months of migration a nightmare
– How we chose a replacement — and what mistakes we made in the process
– And why simply rewriting tests is not enough

This presentation will show you what _not_ to do when changing frameworks.