Functional Test Libraries

Candidates

• WebdriverIO
• Cypress
• Nightwatch
• Playwright
• Web Test Runner
• Selenium JS

Criteria

• Multi browsers
• Mobile browsers support

Resources

• Cypress vs WebdriverIO: https://vitest.dev/guide/comparisons.html#webdriverio

Choice Matrix

Library	Acceptability	Supported by	Github link	License	Proposed by default for Vue	Multi Browser	Mobile Browser	Electron Support	Browserstack support	Video Recording	Visual Testing (i.e., screenshots diff)	Typescript
WebdriverIO	Based on (web)standards. Claims to also support Electron app.	Community (https://openjsf.org/)	https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverio	MIT	no	yes as long as the browser supports w3c webdriver protocol	yes		yes
Cypress			https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress	MIT	yes	yes Firefox Chrome	partial with Ionic framework, see https://docs.cypress.io/faq/questions/general-questions-faq#Do-you-support-native-mobile-apps		yes, see https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/cypress	yes	yes	yes
Nightwatch			https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch	MIT	yes	yes Firefox Chrome Safari Edge	with appium, see https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch#nightwatch-mobile-app-testing		yes
Playwright		Microsoft	https://github.com/microsoft/playwright	Apache 2.0	yes		see https://nightwatchjs.org/guide/mobile-app-testing/introduction.html		yes
Web Test Runner			https://github.com/modernweb-dev/web/tree/master/packages/test-runner	MIT	no
Selenium JS			https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium	Apache 2.0	no