An overview of the web testing market

The web testing market constantly changes, and newer versions of existing frameworks are being developed with brand new solutions. 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 (https://www.npmtrends.com/site). When focusing on the top four frameworks available for frontend developers that support JavaScript, at the time of writing this book, Cypress emerges as the leading framework. As highlighted in an npm trends report (https://www.npmtrends.com/cypress-vs-playwright-vs-selenium-webdriver-vs-puppeteer), Cypress has over 3 million weekly downloads compared to Selenium WebDriver, which has just over 2 million downloads. Keep in mind that we are only showing in this resource the JavaScript flavor of these frameworks. For frameworks such as Selenium and Playwright that support more language bindings, the market share and...