Why Cypress is faster than Selenium?
Let’s start with the main thing that makes it fast. The main thing is that Cypress listens to you and it only runs the tests as needed. It saves time, you don’t have to wait for all test suites to run, you don’t have to wait for all tests to be saved, you don’t have to wait for each test file to load and run. Also, when you write your first test in Cypress it automatically creates a folder with all the files needed for this test. Later, if you add one more test for a feature it will use the same folder but just add the new file. It doesn’t reload everything from scratch again.
What’s more? When there is an error in your code (there will be because we are humans) Cypress will listen to you and tell you what happened. It has a great UI which is built on top of Electron. That means it has a desktop application which is basically an app version of your website/web application without any server code and databases inside.
It does everything in your browser so that testing becomes way more fun, easy and fast!