Is Cypress based on Selenium?
Cypress is a relatively new tool in the testing landscape, and it’s easy to see why there are questions about whether it’s based on Selenium. Cypress was founded by developers who were working on Selenium, but had a different vision for how the web application testing process should work. Rather than using Selenium’s approach of running tests against an actual browser with a real DOM, Cypress uses a headless browser to run tests against the application code itself. This lets you test your code without dealing with the quirks of browsers or worrying about how to render components and make sure they work properly.