Automating Tests with Natural Language: Highlights from Frontend Nation 2025

At Frontend Nation 2025, Cypress founder Brian Mann discussed the future of end-to-end testing using natural language, showcasing how it can be a powerful tool for automating browsers with plain English. Natural language is beneficial as it allows non-developers and QA teams to write tests faster, reduces brittleness with self-healing selectors, increases portability across teams and systems, and supports multilingual prompts for global teams. However, current AI browser agents often fall short in providing reliable and performant test automation due to being built for generic web tasks, hallucinating outputs, and lacking support for debugging and test lifecycle needs. To address this, Cypress has introduced cy.prompt, an AI-powered command that enables users to describe tests in plain English, which is fast, resilient, and adaptable to evolving apps without the overhead of traditional AI agents, and also allows for inspecting and debugging each step of the prompt. Cypress is rolling out cy.prompt as an experimental feature this summer, offering early access to those who sign up.

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