Selenium
One of the best things about Selenium is how many programming languages it supports. This makes it a strong option for a wide range of teams, especially those with complex stacks already in place.
Selenium supports:
- Java
- Python
- C#
- JavaScript/Node.js
- Ruby
- Kotlin (via Java bindings)
Cypress
Cypress is exclusively designed for use with JavaScript or TypeScript.
Great for ease of integration with modern front-end tools, and for support for frameworks like
React, Angular, and Vue. Not so great if you’re not using JavaScript or TypeScript already – unless you feel like adopting it exclusively for testing?
Selenium vs Cypress: Resources: Documentation, and Community
Selenium
As one of the go-to test automation tools of the previous decade, Selenium offers extensive documentation and a large, active community. You’ll also never be short of engineers with Selenium experience, given its prominence in enterprise environments.
Got a problem? Someone has probably experienced it before – you can rely on online documentation, tutorials, and the contributions of countless Stack Overflow users to provide the answer.
Cypress
Cypress provides modern, well-structured docs with plenty of examples, an active blog, and many other learning resources. Whilst not quite as extensive as Selenium’s, Cypress offers an established engineer community, in part thanks to Cypress’ appeal to startups and SMEs.
Selenium vs Cypress: A Meaningful Question to Ask in 2026?
Both Selenium and Cypress are solid test automation options that will save your team time. Equally, it’s fair to say that they are no longer the best in the business, thanks to these common issues:
1. Manual Test Engineering Still Costs Time
Even with Cypress and Playwright’s low-code features, your team will still need to invest time in:
- Writing boilerplate
- Maintaining flaky tests
- Integrating with CI/CD
- Debugging failures
These time costs disappear or are minimized with AI solutions like Momentic, so you can refocus maintenance time on feature development.
2. E2E Suites are Hard to Scale
As applications grow, tests often become brittle and slow in both Cypress and Selenium. Parallelization helps, but maintaining a large suite remains a significant burden.
3. Non-Developers are Locked Out
As traditional silos disappear, product teams, business analysts, and non-engineers want to contribute to quality assurance – or at least want some visibility into it. This is a good thing.
Despite some rudimentary low-code tools, traditional automation solutions like Selenium and Cypress don’t really allow this. This is a bad thing. Thanks to AI, there are solutions out there that allow both technical and non-technical team members to contribute – this will be increasingly important as QA’s role evolves from manually coding test scripts into something more analytical.
AI is Changing the Game
AI is at the point now where it’s a game-changer for web app testing. We’re talking natural language test creation (you write in plain English, the AI takes care of the rest), intent-based locators that minimize flakiness, autonomous AI agents, and more – all of these features will save you hours on maintenance.
Just ask our client Retool, who were able to save 40 engineering hours per month and 4x their release cadence to 4 times per week with Momentic’s AI testing features.
Selenium vs Cypress? Consider Momentic Instead
“It’s like giving someone your QA checklist and watching them execute it for you!”
Sriram, Engineering Lead, Retool
AI testing is really that simple. Find the right tool, and you’ll suddenly find you’re up to 80% test coverage in two days, without writing a single line of code.
As well as offering a full set of AI testing features, including natural language test creation, agentic AI, and self-healing tests, we’ve designed Momentic to be pretty much plug-and-play. Implement on day one; start testing on day one.
Want to know more? Schedule a conversation with our engineers.
