[vpfaulkner]

I’ve found Cypress generally better than other alternatives such as Selenium. The screenshot feature is nice and it seems to be a little less flakey, although E2E tests using a browser are always going to be more prone to flakiness than unit tests.

This last project we’ve actually been running true E2E tests by spinning up the backend in GH actions (looking for a branch with the same name or falling back to master), seeding it, and making snapshot-style assertions about the UI. It’s more complex and slower but tests a lot more code now that the backend is involved as well as the API layer. It has helped a lot in major refactors.