Case Study: Spotahome achieves an 83% reduction in test execution time with Cypress

How Spotahome Achieved a 83% Decrease in Test Time Execution with Cypress

Spotahome, a fast‑growing home‑rental platform with a 60‑engineer, geographically distributed team and up to 250 weekly deployments, was held back by slow, flaky Selenium end‑to‑end tests, low feature coverage, and limited testing expertise. To scale safely and speed delivery across its Back‑end‑for‑Front‑end squads, Spotahome adopted Cypress (the open‑source Test Runner and Cypress Cloud) for a smoother fit with its JavaScript stack and better developer onboarding.

Using Cypress, Spotahome integrated UI automation into CI, leveraged load balancing and parallelization, and used live logs, snapshots, and Cypress Cloud (with Slack alerts) for faster debugging and centralized results. The change cut test execution time by 83%, achieved about 80% test‑suite coverage with runs under eight minutes, enabled daily CI testing of production releases, and empowered squads to own UI automation—delivering markedly faster feedback and bug resolution with Cypress.

Spotahome

David Zambrana

QA Automation Engineer