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Sharing our challenges, mistakes, hacks, successes, opinions and news

The European Accessibility Act and Cypress Accessibility

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) takes effect in June 2025, introducing harmonized accessibility standards across all 27 EU member states. As this regulatory milestone approaches, companies need efficient ways to identify and address accessibility issues in their applications. This is top of mind for many Cypress Accessibility customers, and we are often asked just where test automation fits in, and can this sort of system make you compliant? The answer is that no test automation setup will Read more

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Announcing the Cypress Cloud 14-Day Free Trial

We're excited to announce a 14-day free trial of Cypress Cloud! Explore premium features that have made Cypress Cloud a trusted tool for developers worldwide and experience how it can transform your testing workflow, all risk-free.

Introducing UI Coverage

Learn how UI Coverage by Cypress enhances your testing strategy by providing visual insights into test coverage, identifying gaps, and optimizing your test suite.

Submit Your Proposal for CypressConf 2024 by April 17th

Welcome, test automation leaders, to CypressConf 2024! As we gear up for another year of pushing the boundaries in test automation, we're calling upon you to share your groundbreaking ideas, revolutionary approaches, and latest advancements in the field. Join us in shaping the future of test automation by submitting your Call for Proposals (CFP) for CypressConf 2024! Why Submit a CFP? * Share Your Expertise: Do you have firsthand experience implementing test automation solutions? Share your

Introducing Cypress Accessibility

Updated March 2025. Looking for a free trial? Sign up here. Introduction We built Cypress Accessibility to help teams measure and improve the accessibility of their applications by adding highly effective, zero-effort accessibility checks to the Cypress Cloud platform. To do this, we automatically generate rich, interactive accessibility reports based entirely on existing tests being recorded to Cypress Cloud. This requires no setup or configuration, so it can be adopted instantly at any time

Exciting News: Cypress Cloud Plan User Limits Increased to 50! 🎉

At Cypress, we understand that the key to successful software development is equipping developers with the tools and resources they need. As we focus more on redefining pre-production app quality and supporting test-forward culture, it’s never been more important to enable our Cypress Cloud users to scale quicker adoption of test automation throughout your organization. We heard your feedback: more users + more test coverage = less costly production bugs! That's why we're thrilled to announce a

Changes in defense of Cypress Intellectual Property

💡Please note that we've published a follow on blog post with more details as to why we made the decision described below. Read the newer post here. Starting with version 13 of the Cypress app, Cypress will begin enforcing data recording restrictions that block certain third-party products and services in order to protect our intellectual property. The vast majority of our user base including the broader Cypress ecosystem will see no impact from these changes. Cypress was founded 9 years ago t

CypressConf 2023: Keynote Speaker Announcement

Introducing Jennifer Wadella We are thrilled to announce that we have secured an exceptional keynote speaker for CypressConf 2023: Jennifer Wadella. With a lifelong passion for coding, Jennifer serves as the Director of Angular Consulting at Bitovi, where she excels in crafting high-performance web applications. Beyond coding, she's a sought-after speaker at technical conferences and a skilled kombucha brewer. Jennifer is integral to the Kansas City tech community and the visionary behind Kans

The NEW CircleCI Cypress Orb

As you embark on your journey writing automated tests, it’s likely that you’ll need to run them in a CI/CD environment. Configuring these systems can be cumbersome and unfamiliar to application developers. Luckily, Cypress is compatible with all Continuous Integration (CI) providers and systems! 🎉 But how can we help make this journey smoother and less complex? Cypress partnered with CircleCI in 2018 to provide the Cypress Orb. Since then, Cypress has grown and matured, as has the tooling arou

Cypress Dashboard will soon become Cypress Cloud

Summary * Cypress Dashboard was introduced in 2017 as an essential peer to the open-source Cypress app. * To better represent what Cypress Dashboard is today – and will be in the future – we are renaming it Cypress Cloud. * This rename will have no immediate impact on how you use Cypress Cloud today. Cypress Dashboard’s evolution When first introduced in 2017, Cypress Dashboard [https://www.cypress.io/dashboard/] enabled development and testing teams to record, debug, and parallelizeC

Introducing Real World Testing with Cypress

Real World Testing with Cypress (RWT) is a four-course curriculum that teaches everything you need to know about testing modern web applications with Cypress.

Uploading html5 files made easy with the .selectFile command

Cypress has a built-in way for you to select files in an HTML5 input element and simulate dragging files into the browser with the introduction of the .selectFile() command. HTML5 input file upload With the .selectFile() command, you can easily select a fixture file in a form element: cy.get('input[type=file]').selectFile('file.json') Or multiple fixture files, as long as the file input has the multiple property: cy.get('input[type=file]').selectFile(['file.json', 'file2.json']) You can

Live Webcast | Faire + Cypress: Building an E2E Strategy that Scales

Join us Wednesday, September 29th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how the team built their E2E testing setup from scratch using Cypress.

Live Webcast | Flaky Test Management with Cypress

Register Tired of battling flaky tests? Join us Wednesday, May 19th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how to focus your efforts with test-writing best practices, how to understand different types of flake, and the many ways in which Cypress can help you eliminate flake for good. Your Webcast Hosts In this webcast, we'll define flake and the many ways that it can impact your tests. Next, you'll learn: * The common causes of test flakiness, including DOM-related, network-related,

Live Webcast | How Cypress helped Ansible re-write their entire UI from scratch

Register Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform enables thousands of users to centralize and control IT infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control, job scheduling, integrated notifications, and graphical inventory management. Join us Thursday, April 15th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how Ansible's team completely re-wrote Ansible Automation Platform's complex UI, and how they relied on Cypress for testing confidently throughout their project. Your Webcast H

Introducing the Cypress Component Test Runner– new in 7.0.0

We’re proud to announce the alpha release of Cypress’s dedicated Component Test Runner. It’s a brand new test runner that’s designed to replace your node-based component tests.

Live Webcast | How Pendo maintains a culture of quality with Cypress

Join us Wednesday, April 7th at 5:00pm GMT/1:00pm EDT/10:00am PDT to find out why Pendo's quality engineers chose Cypress to rebuild their test suite and continue their commitment to quality.

Live Webcast | Build, deploy, and test your site with confidence using Netlify and Cypress

Register [https://go.cypress.io/netlify-webcast-registration?utm_source=Cypress_blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Netlify_Webcast] Developers use Netlify [https://www.netlify.com/]'s powerful serverless platform for Jamstack to increase productivity and simplify site building. Join us Thursday, March 18th at 2:30pm EST/11:30am PST [https://go.cypress.io/netlify-webcast-registration?utm_source=Cypress_blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Netlify_Webcast] to find out how you can easily add Cypress t

Our year at Cypress, and what’s next for our team

Here are some of the highlights of the past year at Cypress, as well as a sneak peek into what we have planned to make testing even better in 2021.

Live Webcast | Ship safer code with Cypress and Codecov

Join us on Wednesday, January 13th at 2pm EST/11am PST to find out how you can use Cypress tests with Codecov to write highly durable code that allows you to deploy with confidence.

Cypress raises $40M Series B round led by OpenView

On Wednesday, we announced a $40M Series B round of funding led by OpenView Venture Partners.

Introducing cy.intercept - Next Generation Network Stubbing in Cypress 6.0

Today, we're elevating the power and scope of Cypress' network handling capabilities with the introduction of the cy.intercept command in Cypress 6.0.

Live Webcast | How Carvana Transformed their Testing with Cypress Test Analytics

Register [https://go.cypress.io/carvana-webcast-registration?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Carvana_Webcast] Carvana [https://www.carvana.com/]'s leading e-commerce platform for buying and selling used vehicles offers a browsing selection of more than 20,000 vehicles with delivery in 262 markets across the U.S. Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd at 2pm EST/11am PST [https://go.cypress.io/carvana-webcast-registration?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Carvana_Webcast] to f

Live Webcast | Using Code Smells to Fix Flaky Tests in Cypress

Register [https://go.cypress.io/code-smells-webcast-registration?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Code_Smells_Webcast] The concept of code smells is a way to categorize problems in code for the purpose of fixing them—in turn, this concept can also make it easier to fix flaky tests. Join us on November 18th at 2PM EST/11AM PST [https://go.cypress.io/code-smells-webcast-registration?utm_source=Cypress_blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Code_Smells_Webcast] to learn how to identify and f

Introducing Flaky Test Detection & Alerts

Empowered with test retrying capabilities, we're excited to introduce test flake detection for the Cypress Dashboard...

Live Webcast | How Userlane dramatically reduced flaky E2E tests with Cypress

Userlane's interactive, step-by-step guides help users instantly use any software without formal training. Find out how the team uses Cypress to increase stability, improve performance, and ensure quality for their CI/CD process while maintaining developer happiness.

Highlight your project’s test status with Cypress README badges

We’re excited to announce that Cypress Dashboard users can now add Cypress badges to their README files 🎉

Introducing Test Retries in Cypress 5.0

We are excited to announce that as of Cypress 5.0, Cypress will include native support for test retries! 🎉

Live Webcast | How GoFundMe’s QA Engineers and Developers Test 30x Faster with Cypress

GoFundMe Charity's subscription-free fundraising platform uses powerful tools, including donation buttons, data solutions, and custom campaigns to provide a world-class fundraising experience for charities. In our upcoming webcast, find out how...

Keep your test suite in tip-top shape with Cypress Test Analytics

Today, we’re thrilled to announce our new Test Analytics for the Cypress Dashboard—a huge step forward in our mission to help teams easily manage and improve their test suites, so developers can build better things with confidence.

Live Webcast | Build invincible integration tests using Cypress and cypress-testing-library

Register [https://go.cypress.io/cypress-testing-library-webcast-registration?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Roman_Sandler_Webcast] A member of the testing-library.com [https://testing-library.com/] family, cypress-testing-library [https://testing-library.com/docs/cypress-testing-library/intro] is a collection of simple and complete custom Cypress commands and utilities that encourage good testing practices. Join us on Wednesday, July 8th at 1pm EDT/10am PDT [https://go.cypress.io

Introducing the Cypress Real World App

We recently open-sourced the Cypress Real World App (RWA) project on GitHub. The RWA is an example payment application for demonstrating real-world usage of Cypress testing methods, patterns, practices, and workflows.

Introducing the Cypress Integration for Slack

Today, we’re excited to announce the Cypress Slack Integration: a high-quality Slack App that provides real-time results for your Cypress tests, all in one place.

Live Webcast | How Optimizely Tests Features and Feature Flags 300% Faster with Cypress

Optimizely’s Progressive Delivery & Experimentation platform helps companies deliver better software, products, and growth. In our upcoming webcast, find out how the team uses Cypress to ensure quality across multiple platforms and third party integrations.

Debugging Best Practices: Speeding up the Process with Test Error Code Frames

Cypress 4.6 marks a significant improvement in test error messaging via code frame snippets that directly link to the source of the failure within a code editor.

Live Webcast | Keep your UI Sharp: Ensuring Functional and Visual Quality with Cypress.io + Happo.io

Happo.io is a cross-platform, cross-browser screenshot testing tool for modern user interfaces. By integrating Happo screenshots with your Cypress test suite, you can easily ensure both functional and visual quality in your applications.

Live Webcast | Shipping with Confidence: How DHL reduced test execution time by 50%

DHL Parcel, widely known as one of the world's leading logistics companies, serves a global market of 220 countries and delivers over 1.5 billion parcels per year. With the company experiencing rapid growth, the business-to-business and business-to-consumer (B2X) team relies on Cypress tests...

Live Webcast | How Lightstep Quadrupled Deployment Velocity with Cypress

Join us on Wednesday, April 15th at 2 pm ET/11 am PT to learn how the Lightstep Product Engineering team went from a 15-page document of step-by-step QA instructions for each deployment, to quadrupling deployment velocity with Cypress.

Leveling the playing field for a more inclusive developer experience

Cypress as a company represents a lot of things I love about tech—the Test Runner is free and open source, we’re a distributed team, and I get to work with some incredibly smart people to make it easier for people to write and test better software.

Live Webcast: How PlanGrid (Autodesk) Achieved Consistency in Automation Across 20 Development Teams

With over 1 million projects and 90,000 weekly active users, PlanGrid (Autodesk) is the first construction productivity software enabling contractors and owners in commercial, heavy civil, and other industries to work and collaborate from anywhere.

Building a Product Team for Cypress

World-class organizations aren’t found, they’re made.

Live Webcast | How Siemens SW Hub increased their test productivity by 38% with Cypress

Register [https://go.cypress.io/siemens-webcast-registration?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=siemens_webcast] Siemens [https://new.siemens.com/us/en.html] is commonly known as a global powerhouse in the world of digital infrastructure. With a vast catalog of solutions recognized for their ingenuity and simplicity, the company's SaaS services are also expected to follow these principles. When the Siemens SW Hub Cloud team began working on Building Operator [https://new.siemens.com/gl

Chrome Video Recording, Mouse Improvements, and More in Cypress 3.5 & 3.6

Last week we released Cypress 3.6 [https://on.cypress.io/changelog#3-6-0] shortly after the release of version 3.5 [https://on.cypress.io/changelog#3-5-0] , which was a big release that introduced various enhancements such as Chrome video recording, mouse event improvements, and included many bug fixes. Check out all the changes within 3.5 and 3.6 changelogs [https://on.cypress.io/changelog], but for now let's dive into some notable additions within these releases. Chrome Video Recording It is

Love Cypress? Share your video with the community!

We love the fact that our community is eager to share their experiences using Cypress, and we wanted to see if there was a way to record and share your stories. So we're reaching out to you - to ask you to share a short video of how Cypress has impacted the way you make apps. These video stories will be featured on our blog, shared with the community - and if we get enough of them - put on our website for everyone to see. As a thank you, we'll send you some amazing Cypress swag! Submit Your Vi

Cypress Integrated with AWS Amplify Console for End-to-End Testing

Yesterday, the AWS Amplify Console team announced Cypress as their tool of choice for adding End-to-End Testing for the Amplify Console [https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/]. Connecting an app in Amplify Console will detect Cypress installations and present a base amplify.yml which will run the Cypress integration tests during the Test phase of the build. This may need to be adjusted to accommodate installation and build steps for the project connected. Support has been added to our cypres

Testing Electron.js applications using Cypress - alpha release

Note: At this time, Cypress is no longer supporting testing Electron.js applications, and are no longer publishing the binaries referenced in this post. Thank you for your interest, and check out our Roadmap [https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/roadmap.html#Upcoming-features] for information on upcoming features from Cypress. Cypress is great for testing web applications in its built-in Electron.js browser or in an external Chrome browser. Today I am happy to announce that we have started

Live Webcast | Continuous Integration with Cypress

Register [https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9715682309379/WN_MUIJzTKCQQujUeUg6-IUXg] At Cypress, we believe running end-to-end tests on CI should be part of any development pipeline. But with so many CI providers to choose from, setting up each service can present a number of different obstacles. Join us on Monday, September 23rd at 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT [https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9715682309379/WN_MUIJzTKCQQujUeUg6-IUXg] to learn how to set up Cypress correctly on a variety of CI providers,

Cypress is one of the "20 Rising Stars" in the Forbes Cloud 100 List!

The Cypress team is thrilled to announce that we've been named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes [https://www.forbes.com/] in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners [https://www.bvp.com/] and Salesforce Ventures [https://www.salesforce.com/company/ventures/]. The 20 Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who have raised up to

Live Webcast | Cypress + Gatsby: Confidently fast web development

Join Amir Rustamzadeh, Head of Developer Experience at Cypress.io, and Dustin Schau, Software Engineer at Gatsby to see how the Gatsby team leverages Cypress end-to-end (E2E) testing to confidently accept more open-source contributions than ever before.

Live Webcast | Spotahome’s Test-First Engineering Culture Using Cypress

Join us Tuesday, August 13th to find out how Spotahome utilizes Cypress in over 100 test runs per week.

Live Webcast | Slido’s QA Journey With Cypress

Register [https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6815640994232/WN_vTkLQ3oyRq2ZtoEptyKxVg] You’ve probably seen Slido used at events and meetings. With over 244,000 successful events and 7.1 million questions asked, Slido enables users to crowdsource top questions to drive conversations and engage participants in live and online events. With top customers including Spotify, Lufthansa, and the BBC - Slido has to make sure these interactions execute flawlessly; and in order to do so, they had to find th

Live Webcast | Complete Code Coverage with Cypress

In this webcast, we will show how to instrument your web application source code and then generate coverage reports from your Cypress tests.

We’ve raised $9.3 million in our Series A round!

Today we’re thrilled to announce that Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) has led our Series A funding. Since we first met Mike Droesch [https://www.bvp.com/team/mike-droesch/], Bob Goodman [https://www.bvp.com/team/bob-goodman/] and read Bessemer’s 8 Laws of Developer Platforms [https://www.bvp.com/atlas/developer-laws-2019/?from=feature], we knew their understanding of developer centric businesses, combined with their history of investing in great companies like Twilio, PagerDuty, NPM, HashiCorp

Live Webcast | Cypress in a Nutshell

If you’re curious or are eager to get your hands dirty with Cypress—this is the perfect webcast for you.

Live Webinar | Cypress.io + Percy = End-to-End Functional and Visual Testing for the Web

End-to-end testing is the optimal way for developers to test their apps across complex operations, UI states, mobile responsive views, and more. But how do you test your applications for visual integrity? How can you know with complete confidence that you haven’t introduced a visual regression? Cypress.io gives you a fast and reliable way to ensure your app is functioning exactly as intended on every commit. Using it with Percy’s [https://percy.io/?utm_source=cypress&utm_medium=referral&utm_ca

Live Webinar | How GoDaddy Created A Culture of Quality Through Test Automation with Cypress

GoDaddy [https://www.godaddy.com/] powers the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, with 18 million customers worldwide and 77 million domain names under management. As GoDaddy scales to meet the demands of millions of daily users, they are also working to find ways to scale internally and unify their teams’ efforts across engineering, QA, and operations. Join team members from GoDaddy and Cypress.io on Wednesday, March 27 at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT to learn how th

Join the Team With 10,000 (GitHub) Stars!

An amazing thing happened a few days ago—we reached 10,000 stars on Github, less than two years after making our open-source repo available. > 10,000 Github stars in two years! Source https://timqian.com/star-history/#cypress-io/cypress If you haven’t tried Cypress yet, check out our docs [on.cypress.io] and give our automated testing tool and dashboard a try—getting started takes just 5 minutes. We think you’ll be pleased with the power and ease of use of our testing framework, the Test Run

New Feature: Log in to the Cypress Dashboard via Google

Just a quick product update: you can now log into the Cypress Dashboard via Google! GitHub is home base for many of the developers using Cypress—which is why it was our initial focus when we enabled social login to the Cypress Dashboard [https://dashboard.cypress.io]. But as we’ve grown, we’ve heard from people outside that developer ecosystem that would like access too. Our response is simple: whether you’re a developer using GitLab, or a product manager that doesn’t code at all, we want every

Meet our new VP of Marketing: Steven Yi

Cypress is pleased to announce, Steven Yi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyiwa/] has joined Cypress.io as our vice president of marketing. In addition to his experience in developer evangelism and product marketing, he spent the first seven years of his career as a developer, working on large web e-commerce systems and enterprise integrations. Throughout his career he’s used several languages and platforms: Node.js, TypeScript and Express for web API and server-side execution, Python/Django, C

Happy 2019 from Cypress!

As our team gets a running start to the new year, we think reflecting on how far Cypress.io has come in 2018 serves as the perfect conduit to determining our goals for 2019. We reached some truly unprecedented achievements, and we could not have done it without our outstanding Cypress community. Below are some of the highlights of 2018, as well as what we plan to accomplish in the year ahead. #2018-A-Year-of-Growth2018: A Year of Growth This past June brought the acquisition of our CEO, Drew La

Meet our Lead Product Designer: Jeff Tucker

Hi, I’m Jeff 👋 I’m a designer and developer, and I’ve just joined Cypress as Lead Product Designer. I’ve held a fairly wide assortment of roles before this – UX designer, frontend developer, backend developer, and data analyst. Let’s take a look at how I’m using these skills to help build Cypress. Parallelism calculator Cypress rolled out test parallelization support [https://www.cypress.io/blog/2018/09/05/run-end-to-end-tests-on-ci-faster/] just a few months ago. We’ve talked a good bit about

Cypress Case Study: Quizlet

With more than 30 million active users every month, Quizlet is now the world’s largest student and teacher online learning community. It’s used by one in two high school students and one in three college students, so keeping their application up and running smoothly is a top priority. In this case study, we’ll dig into why and how Quizlet now trusts Cypress as their primary end-to-end testing framework. The Problem Quizlet was using Capybara, which is a Ruby layer on Selenium for E2E testing,

Cypress Halloween Theme

A good tool can become a great tool when users make it their own through customization. In this blog post I will explain how to customize the Cypress test runner’s appearance through user space color themes. Since it is the season, we have prepared a dark and spooky Halloween color theme that might scare all your bugs away! When Cypress executes your end-to-end tests, the application under test is placed in an iframe element. The tests themselves are placed into another iframe to isolate them f

Dashboard Service Downtime Post-mortem on September 24th, 2018

On Monday, September 24th, the Cypress Dashboard service experienced an approximate downtime of 4 hours from 18:20 UTC to 22:40 UTC. This post is to document and communicate to our users the events that occurred, our investigation, solutions, and the actions we’re taking immediately to mitigate and improve our response to service downtime scenarios. #EventsEvents * At 18:20 UTC we started seeing elevated levels of a variety of errors. One repeated error indicated that our application hostin

We're officially out of beta!

It’s been over four years since our first commit. Since then, we’ve seen Cypress achieve widespread and rapidly growing adoption. It’s now been downloaded more than 2.5 million times [https://npmcharts.com/compare/cypress?&periodLength=30], with thousands of organizations recording millions of tests per month. And today, we’re thrilled to announce that Cypress has officially left beta. 🎉 To keep up, we’ve expanded our engineering team [https://www.cypress.io/about/], while working hard to grow

$4 million more means more features and jobs

It’s a big day for Cypress. We are going to take a brief break from our scheduled programming to announce that Cypress has raised $4 million, co-led by Las Olas Venture Capital [http://www.lasolasvc.com/] and Bessemer Venture Partners [https://www.bvp.com/]. The full press release is here [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180626005183/en/Cypress.io-Raises-4-Million-Front-Automated-Testing] . If you are currently one of our amazing users or if you have been considering trying Cypress,

Introducing Drew Lanham

When is the right time to bring in a CEO? This “Founder’s Dilemma” is something I’ve been considering for some time. After leading product development for Cypress and steering the company through two rounds of funding, eventually I realized trying to split my time between CEO and development duties was no longer feasible. Being merely an “adequate” CEO hampered our potential and my passion and vision has always belonged with building the product. I realized we’d reached the point where we needed

Extending Cypress With Plugins

One of the greatest (and unique) advantages of Cypress is that all of your test code runs in the browser. This provides us a significant architectural advantage over every other testing tool out there. While this makes for a much more reliable testing experience, and enables you to write tests much easier - it does make communicating outside of the browser more difficult. Users have expressed a desire [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/684#issuecomment-331736178] to be able to custo

Joining Cypress

As a developer, I am always on the lookout for tools and practices that will improve my productivity, help me write higher quality software and increase the enjoyment I get out of my work. When I had the opportunity to use Cypress [https://cypress-io.ghost.io/blog/] for the first time, it immediately checked off all 3 boxes for me. When the opportunity arose to interview for a developer role [https://www.cypress.io/jobs/] with Cypress, there was no way I was going to pass it up. The idea of b

Cypress is now public beta

The first commit on Cypress happened on June 5th, 2014 - exactly 3 years, 4 months, and 5 days ago. Since then we have had 20,000+ commits across all of our projects, we have created 100+ repos, and received 10,000+ early adopter submissions. We’ve funded Cypress by raising money, and with that built a solid team of some of brightest talent in JavaScript. Cypress has come a long way since the early days. We’ve overcome seemingly insurmountable technical challenges. We’ve solved some of the har

Why I joined the Cypress.io team

You know what is hard? Changing jobs is hard. Testing web applications is hard. Luckily for me, I have an opportunity to tackle both problems at once! I am happy to announce that I am joining the awesome Cypress.io [https://www.cypress.io/] team. This is a big personal change. I spent last three years developing web applications for financial startup, Kensho. I was happy to see Kensho grow from 10 people to 75 and sign very first contracts. > I want the software to be better and by extension m

Cypress is going open source!

That’s right! After years of development and focused iteration with our early adopters, the most advanced front-end testing tool in the universe is almost ready for its ultimate adventure: going open source! Here at Cypress HQ, we generally have several projects in motion at a time and this open source initiative is no exception. Let’s look at a few of the things that are coming down the pike for this launch. Documentation overhaul Over the last couple of years, our documentation has grown l