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Code Coverage Isn’t Enough: How UI Coverage Completes the Picture

Measuring Coverage Is Hard; We Made It Better Trying to understand how much of your application is tested can be an exercise in frustration—you're stuck relying on numbers that are hard to interpret, methods that don’t reflect real user activity, and reports that are a nightmare to collaborate on. But what if it didn't have to be this way? What if coverage could be actionable, intuitive, and reflective of what really matters—the user experience? That's why we built UI Coverage. Let's break dow Read more

Announcing the General Availability of UI Coverage

At CypressConf 2024, we announced that UI Coverage is now generally available. After an incredibly successful early access period, during which we partnered with forward-thinking teams to refine this innovative product, UI Coverage is ready to transform the way you approach test coverage. UI Coverage provides clear insights and actionable data to help your team improve test coverage, quality, and efficiency: * Visualize Coverage: Get a clear, visual overview of which parts of your application

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Graphics showing interface patterns related to Cypress Accessibility and UI Coverage

UI Coverage and Cypress Accessibility are now GA!

Today, on the first day of CypressConf 2024, we are delighted to announce that both Cypress Accessibility and UI Coverage have reached general availability 🎉. Whether keeping an eye on your test coverage, or detecting regressions that would prevent people with disabilities using your product, Cypress Cloud has more ways than ever to supercharge your test pipeline.  Learn about the details below, and request a trial in Cypress Cloud with your own projects. When your trial begins, you’ll receiv

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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.

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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.

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New for Cypress Cloud: Data Extract API

Introducing the Data Extract API, now available in Enterprise Cypress Cloud plans. This API empowers you to retrieve your test data at various levels. You can access individual test results, which encompass status, error messages, build tags and groups, Test Replay links, and more. This data enables you to: * Understand overall app quality and trends across multiple projects. * Drive accountability and enforce standardization in testing practices. * Streamline workflows. * Identify and maxi

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New for Cypress Cloud: Enterprise Reporting

We're excited to introduce a new tool designed to assist technical experts and company leadership in analyzing their organization’s testing progress. Cypress Cloud Enterprise plan users can now access organization-level trends and insights on adoption, usage, and performance. This tool is specifically crafted to drive accountability, enforce standardization, streamline workflows, and aid organizations in identifying areas where Cypress is delivering value. Above all, it aims to empower the proc

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Cypress Accessibility

Introducing Cypress Accessibility

Updated October 2024. 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 ti

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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

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Configure retry thresholds with our new experimental feature

In the dynamic world of software testing, the importance of ensuring the reliability of your end-to-end (E2E) tests cannot be overstated. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a new experiment allowing you to configure thresholds for test retries! Context: What’s a retry? End-to-end (E2E) tests are indispensable for evaluating complex systems, but they can encounter unpredictable conditions that make them unreliable, causing sporadic failures called “test flake”. Flaky tests are those which s

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New for Cypress Cloud: Enhance PR Review Efficiency with Branch Review

Cypress Cloud users can now analyze changes to their test suite using a before-and-after view of changes made by each pull request, so they can swiftly pinpoint the differences, streamline review cycles, and prevent regressions. We're excited to introduce Branch Review, Cypress Cloud's latest feature that will enable Github-integrated developers and QA engineers to understand the impact of their current branch’s code changes on their test suite. This release aims to increase the speed and accur

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Announcing Cypress 13 with Test Replay!

Cypress 13 is here, featuring Test Replay! Interact with tests as they occurred during Continuous Integration (CI).

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Introducing Desktop Notifications for Cypress Cloud Runs

In the world of software testing, speed is of the essence. The faster you can identify and resolve issues, the smoother your development process becomes. That's why we are excited to announce the latest feature for Cypress Cloud: desktop notifications for your test runs. When it comes to debugging, it's crucial to know when relevant test runs complete in real-time. With the new desktop notifications feature, you no longer have to wait and watch your continuous integration (CI) system for update

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New for Cypress Cloud: Microsoft Teams integration

We know that quality and engineering teams need visibility into their CI builds to catch issues early on. That's why we're excited to announce our new beta integration with Microsoft Teams, which makes it easier than ever to view Cypress test results in real-time, directly in your Teams channels. One of the biggest challenges facing engineering and quality teams today is the sheer number of CI build processes, systems, and notifications that can easily go unnoticed. Our new integration with Mic

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New for 12.9: Debug Page Run Navigation

With the release of Cypress 12.9, we’re improving our new Debug page by allowing users to navigate between test runs, which will be surfaced and persisted. The Debug page was designed to enhance the CI debugging experience, allowing users to view, investigate, and rerun failed tests recorded to the Cypress Cloud without leaving the comfort of the local Cypress app. Enabling navigation between runs for the Debug page gives users the flexibility they need to view other runs that may be critical

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New for 12.7: Component Framework Definition API

Cypress Component Testing Integration Framework Definition API

Cypress prides itself on providing a first-class experience for Component Testing. Part of this experience is our onboarding process that automatically detects the library and framework used in a project, and scaffolds the relevant files and configuration. Starting with Cypress 12.7, we are exposing our internal API for the community to leverage and integrate directly into Cypress. This reduces the configuration burden, allowing developers to start testing their components more quickly and easi

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Cypress Cloud: Auto Cancellation is now available via CLI

With today’s release of Cypress 12.6, Cypress Cloud users can configure Auto Cancellation via CLI and Node Module API, offering new opportunities to shorten feedback loops and protect valuable CI and human resources. If you are a Cypress Cloud Business and Enterprise customer, you can now use CLI to configure how many tests must fail before Auto Cancellation ends your CI test run. With this release, you have granular control to enable Auto Cancellation based on many variables, including testin

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Introducing in-app test results: A streamlined, local workflow for debugging CI failures

Introducing in-app test results, a game-changing addition to Cypress that allows you to easily debug failed CI test runs right from your local app. With the new Debug page in the app, you can review, rerun, and debug failed CI test runs that are recorded to Cypress Cloud. Debugging failed CI test runs can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. In the past, you had to switch back and forth between your local editor and your CI provider's website, searching and copying the names of failed t

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Check Out Our Experimental Release of Run All Specs

In case you missed it, we recently brought back the ability for users to run all specs and run a filtered subset of specs. This feature was a staple of many Cypress developers’ workflows, allowing them to quickly run through all of the specs that might have been affected by a code change or run their entire test suite at once while in open mode. When we released Cypress 10, we removed this feature because it did not meet the standards of stability and determinism that cypress run offers. Howeve

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New for Cypress Cloud: Run duration analytics, recommendations, and configurable Auto Cancellation

Today, we're excited to announce the release of a new update to Cypress Cloud with all new test run analytics and actionable recommendations for how to optimize your test suite’s performance in CI. Run duration analytics Now available on the Run Overview [http://on.cypress.io/runs] page is a new trends visualization that displays the current and historical run durations of your branch’s test suite. For each test run displayed in the chart, you can hover to explore the test run’s status, run du

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Cypress 10.8: Experimental: Run tests in WebKit

We are excited to bring you an update on one of our most popular user requests: Cypress support for testing in Safari! Apple’s Safari browser accounts for almost 20% of worldwide internet usage. In 10.8.0, Cypress users can test their web applications using WebKit, the same browser engine used in Safari. By running your existing Cypress tests in WebKit, you can feel confident that your web application is bug-free and works as intended for Safari users. We are releasing experimental support for

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What’s new for Cypress 10.7 🚀

Today, we released 10.7. Read on to learn more about: * The return of Cypress Studio for Cypress 10 * Svelte Support for Component Testing Welcome Back, Cypress Studio! Cypress Studio provides a visual way to generate tests within Cypress, by recording interactions against the application under test. It is especially useful for existing code bases, where you would like to quickly and easily add some test coverage — all visually, without needing to write a single line of code! Studio was o

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Cypress 10.3.0: Speed up testing workflows with improved visibility into your test results

We believe testing is the most important aspect of building reliable software and that development teams deserve a data-rich, all-encompassing platform. Towards that goal, we are excited to announce that we have added actionable test data from your runs in the Cypress Dashboard [https://docs.cypress.io/guides/dashboard/introduction] directly into the Cypress app. As the Cypress app runs tests, it records its comprehensive result data to the Cypress Dashboard. The Dashboard derives insights to m

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Cypress 10.2.0: Run tests up to 2x faster on Apple silicon (M1)

Over the last couple of years, Apple has begun transitioning processors in Mac computers from Intel to Apple silicon [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211814] , including the M1 and the recently announced M2 processor families. Previously, if you were using one of the newer M1 Apple devices, you had to run Cypress using Intel emulation with Rosetta 2, Apple's translation layer. We want you to have the best performance, speed, and reliability possible if you're running Cypress tests on Apple d

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Announcing Cypress 10 with Component Testing Beta!

Hello, friends! Today, we have an exciting announcement to share. The title up above might have given it away, but in case you missed it, Cypress 10 is here 🎉! Cypress 10 is our most exciting release yet, and we have a lot to unpack, so let's dive in and look at some of the new functionality. New Cypress App The new Cypress appWe reworked the Cypress app from the ground up to modernize the interface, streamline workflows, and integrate better into your overall development experience. In addi

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An Update on Cypress Studio

*Update 8/30/2022: We have reintroduced the experimental Cypress Studio feature in 10.7. For more details, read our blog post [https://www.cypress.io/blog/2022/08/30/how-to-use-studio-in-cypress-10-7/]. This update at a glance: * Cypress 10.0 will soon be released and it will include several new features, like first-class support for Component Testing * Cypress Studio, the experimental feature first introduced in 6.3.0, will be removed in Cypress 10.0 * If you’re a current user of St

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New for Dashboard: Branches Summary Page

In case you missed it, a few weeks ago we rolled out an update to the Projects page to give you a quicker path to your projects' most recently updated branches. If you haven't noticed yet, give it a look.

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Easily Perform Multi-Domain Testing with cy.origin

With the cy.origin() command, (added in Cypress 9.6.0), you can easily switch between origins to seamlessly test syndicated authentication, cross-site CMS workflows, and much more. UPDATE: With Cypress 12, we brought cy.session() support out of experimental and into general availability status. Session support can tie closely with cross-origin in that you can save a user session (storage, cookies, etc.) after authentication and restore it in a subsequent test. This cuts down on overall test sui

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New for Dashboard: Enterprise Integrations for GitHub and GitLab

This release at a glance: * Integrations with GitHub and GitLab Enterprise source control are now available in Cypress Dashboard * Business and Enterprise plan customers can self-install the integrations from Dashboard's Integrations page * The new integrations deliver test run feedback directly in on-prem instances of the popular source control platforms -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect Cypress Dashboard directly to your on-

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New for Dashboard: New Projects Workflow, Enhanced Error Details, and a Small Delighter

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of new features designed to improve your experience of finding and debugging tests with Cypress Dashboard. In this release, all Cypress Dashboard users have access to new popular, community-requested features: 1. Shortcuts to recently updated branches on the Projects page 2. Enhanced error details for failed runs 3. Current run status as a browser favicon Accessing your most recent tests just got easier The new Projects page in Cypress Dashboar

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How to perform authentication testing with Cypress.

Authenticate Faster in Tests with the cy.session Command

Cypress helped you reduce the time it takes to log in before each of your tests with the introduction of the experimental cy.session() command with Cypress 8.2.0. To view the latest updates, including our fix for the issue with the cy.session command in Cypress 12.1.0, view our changelog. A Brief Refresher on Logging in When testing an application that requires authentication, it's common to create a cy.login() custom command or login helper function to log in to your app: Cypress.Commands.

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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.

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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.

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Get rid of recurring errors in your test suite with new Error Analysis

As part of our ongoing mission [https://www.cypress.io/blog/2020/08/11/keep-your-test-suite-in-tip-top-shape-with-cypress-test-analytics/] to give our users unparalleled insight into their test suites, we’ve added an exciting new analytic to the Cypress Dashboard—Most Common Errors 🎉 The Most Common Errors analytic gives you a high level look at the most common failure modes across your test suite. Users can evaluate their most common errors holistically, and by looking at each error in de

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