# Challenging the Testing Pyramid

DevFeed: [Challenging the Testing Pyramid](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/challenging-the-testing-pyramid-21348.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2019/07/testing-cypress-intro/>)

Published: 2019-07-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Cypress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cypress.md>), [Selenium](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/selenium.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [automated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automated.md>), [cypress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cypress.md>), [e2e-testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/e2e-testing.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [selenium](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/selenium.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>)

## AI overview

An introduction to automated UI and end-to-end testing with Cypress. The article discusses testing costs and benefits, contrasts manual and automated testing, and places UI testing in the context of the testing pyramid and testing trophy.

## Source excerpt

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