Real-Time Cypress Framework Structure: Building an Enterprise-Grade Automation Framework from Scratch

Introduction Most Cypress frameworks do not fail because Cypress is a weak tool. They fail because the framework around Cypress was never designed — it accumulated. A team starts with three spec files, adds a fourth, copies a login block into it, hardcodes a URL "just for now," and eighteen months later there are 900 specs, a 40-minute pipeline, a 12% flake rate, and nobody willing to touch commands.js because it is 2,300 lines long and every spec depends on it. Framework design is the…