The Secret of ROI: Replacing Cypress with AI Pays Your Salary

If you’re like most technology managers, you’ve probably invested valuable time and resources into automating tests with Cypress, thinking it would save money and speed up your deliveries.
But what many don’t realize is that the real cost of Cypress is hidden in the constant, never-ending maintenance of broken scripts every time there’s a change in layout, ID, or class.
The reality is that teams using automated tests spend, on average, 70% of their time just fixing tests that break with every layout, class, or ID change.
Have you calculated how much that costs your company?

The ROI Secret Revealed

Imagine replacing Cypress with a tool that understands the context of tests, allowing them to be executed in natural language, without relying on fragile selectors. A tool that is far more resilient to breakage.
We crunched the numbers with real teams that migrated to AI-based testing:

• Time spent on maintenance: dropped by an average of 80%.
• Hours saved per two-week sprint: approximately 90 hours (2-person QA team, 70% maintenance reduced to 14%).
• Average cost per QA hour: about R$100/hour (salary + indirect costs).

Now here’s the magic:
90 hours saved per sprint × 8 sprints = 720 hours

This means the two QAs in our example could redirect over 700 hours to strategic activities, such as exploratory testing, critical validations, and real improvements to software quality—instead of wasting time fixing broken tests.

ROI is a Strategic Decision

This isn’t just a technical leap—it’s a strategic decision.
Switching from Cypress to AI-powered automation will free up your team to focus on what really matters: software quality.
Ready to take your automation to the next level? Contact us and discover how to turn testing into real, tangible results.