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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: Meera Petkar

Photo of Meera PetkarMeet Meera. A passionate advocate of Cypress and latest member to join the Cypress Ambassador program. As a member of the program, Meera looks forward to providing solution-based content that educates new users. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I believe in practicing what you believe. I wanted to learn and share what are capabilities of Cypress, reach out to the people, as well as make new friends. How do you currently help others that are either using Cyp

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Simon Ravitz

Ambassador Spotlight - Simon RavitzMeet Simon. A perfect example of the collision between technology and passion for community. As a Cypress Ambassador, he takes pride in the opportunity to support Cypress users from various backgrounds and provide his experiences as educational content. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? 1. The quality of the platform - user friendly 2. I Love to help users. I am glad that Cypress provides a safe community. 3. I want to help others by providin

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Quantarius Ray

Meet Q. A passionate problem solver with an eclectic passion for the Angular framework. Since joining the program, Quantarius has contributed through speaking engagements, product feedback, and noteworthy board game suggestions. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? The community! The Cypress team is full of great people and the community has always been one of the best in the Web Development space; rather that be on twitter, stack overflow, or the github forums. I just want to be su

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Announcing Cypress Component Testing GA and Performance Improvements in Cypress 11

Today your tests get an upgrade as we launched Cypress 11! We have a few exciting additions to share. Let's dig in! Cypress Component Testing Goes GA Cypress Component Testing (CT) allows you to build and test individual components using popular front-end frameworks in isolation. Tests run in the browser and enable you to test the behavior of components with the tooling you are accustomed to. Since it's still Cypress, you use the same familiar APIs to write and organize component tests and ha

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Upcoming Changes to Component Testing

Cypress 7 introduced the alpha version of a new testing type – the first since Cypress’ inception – Component Testing. Cypress 10 brought a number of updates and improvements, marking the beta version of Component Testing. Early next week, we will be releasing Cypress 11. With this release, we are excited to announce that we are removing the beta tag. Cypress Component Testing has a stable API, and is now considered generally available. As part of Cypress 11, we are making some small changes t

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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

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Sebastian Ang

Sebastian Ang, Cypress AmbassadorMeet Sebastian. As a Cypress Ambassador, he looks forward to making an impact and helping improve software quality, specifically at the different national laboratories in the United States, and potentially even internationally. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Trying to spread the joy of testing with Cypress and to improve software quality through test automation at my company, and potentially other national laboratories. How do you currently he

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Enrique Decoss

Meet Enrique. As a member of the Ambassador program, Enrique is excited to learn more and share his thought leadership with his local community. When he isn't attending meetups or creating content, you can find Enrique experimenting with new features and developing best practices! What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Support the global Testing community with my experience. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? Local Events,

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Check out EndBridge: Drag and Drop Migration from Protractor to Cypress!

With Protractor’s deprecation [https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/5502] coming soon, many teams are scrambling for a strategy to move off their test suite. At Cypress, we provide several helpful resources to help in this process, from our Protractor Migration Guide [https://docs.cypress.io/guides/end-to-end-testing/protractor-to-cypress] to the Protractor Migrator [https://migrator.cypress.io/]. However, migrating your old tests is time-consuming, and having to run two testing tools s

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