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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

Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Preeti Bellad

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? The first reason is to provide my software testing insights gained through years of deep QA expertise to the Cypress team. In this way I want to contribute towards improved and new features in Cypress. My second reason is the opportunity to help to solve other people's problems in Cypress with my knowledge with special authority as Cypress Ambassador. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? 1

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Breaking Barriers: Women in Test Automation

Just as testing plays an integral role in the software development process, women in testing play a crucial role in software teams. Their diverse perspectives, skill sets, and experiences are critical in delivering high-quality, inclusive, and innovative software. However, studies show that around 50% of women leave their tech career by the age of 35, compared to approximately 20% in other industries. So, how can we support women in testing? We asked some of our favorite women in testing for th

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Test Isolation as a Best Practice

This is a guest post from Ambassador David Ingraham. Hello, I’m David. I’m a Senior SDET with a passion for quality and training engineers on best practices in the industry. I’ve implemented robust testing frameworks for three years with Cypress.io and I’m looking forward to many more. Find and connect with me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dingraham01/! What is Test Isolation? Test isolation is a best practice in which all tests should always be run independently from one another while stil

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Joël Grimberg

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I am very enthusiastic about how Cypress can make test automation so much easier How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I lead the way by giving training and coaching development teams in using Cypress the right way What is your favorite Cypress feature? you get a DOM snapshot (for free) with every Cypress command you use What is your favorite "Cypress Best Practice" and why? use the Sma

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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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Implement API Testing Like a Pro, Part 2: API Automation Using 'cypress-plugin-api'

This is a guest post from Cypress Ambassador Kailash Pathak! Kailash Pathak is a Sr. QA Lead and 3Pillar Global. Read his blogs at qaautomationlabs.com/blogs. Kailash is 2x AWS | PMI-ACP, ITIL, and PRINCE2 practitioner certified. Check out his blog here. This post is the second of a series that explores API testing with Cypress. Read the first post on how to automate APIs using Cypress here. The cypress-plugin-api, written by Cypress Ambassador Filip Hric, is a plugin for effective API testin

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Sean Connolly

Meet Sean. An ideal collaborator for any open source project. His belief in the importance of the developer experience while using automation tools made him the perfect addition to the Ambassador program. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Using the Best State of Art Testing Framework to Simply and Control Automated Testing and Collaborating with like minded people. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? Teaching all the Be

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Effective component testing for next.js with Cypress

Component Testing Next.js with Cypress

Cypress Component Testing allows you to build and test individual components using popular front-end frameworks, and one of the most popular frameworks in use today is Next.js. Front-end libraries like React and Vue are designed to structure your application into small, reusable components, but a framework like Next.js provides a set of capabilities that layers on top of those components which can blur the lines between what is and what isn't a "component behavior". This can make it difficult t

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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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