Aaron Evans

Cypress is great for quickly getting started with test automation -- especially if you're a front end developer. Reporting tools are lacking unless you subscribe to the excellent cypress.io services. Lots of people are shifting to Playwright which has a consistent async/await interface which is easier to understand that Cypress's hybrid sync/async model where you often fall back to using JQuery. Both suffer from the challenge of tying you to a runner where you end up trying to shoehorn steps that are not UI automation (like API setup and validation) into a framework that is not meant for it.

I love being able to use LambdaTest for scaling test automation to run in parallel across many devices. It's a cheaper option than Sauce Labs or Browserstack but has most of the same features.

Postman is the best tool for exploratory testing of APIs and for collaborating with your team. But for automation, you'll likely outgrow it and want to use a developer based testing framework like RestAssured (Java), SuperTest (JS), or Pytest + Requests (Python)