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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

How Cypress Component Testing changed our workflow (and how I came to work here)

Before I joined Cypress last year, the alpha version of Cypress Component Testing [https://on.cypress.io/component] changed the way my team did front-end work at my previous job, allowing us to consolidate three tools into one. This was the experience that ultimately led to me joining the Component Testing team at Cypress, where I got to help move the feature out of alpha and towards a full release. Since then, we’ve released Cypress 10 with support for testing React, Vue, Angular, and (soon!)

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Cypress 10.5.0: Introducing Angular Component Testing

Earlier this year, we announced our biggest release [https://www.cypress.io/blog/2022/06/01/cypress-10-release/] of Cypress ever. This introduced a new unified UI, faster test runs, and support for a new type of testing, Component Tests. This initial release included Component Testing support for both React and Vue with the plan to add additional framework support over the next few months. Today, we are happy to deliver on that promise by adding first-class support for Component Testing for Ang

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Chathuranga Jayasinghe

Meet Chathuranga. One half of the dynamic duo that manage the Cypress Sri Lanka chapter [https://community.cypress.io/cypress-sri-lanka-community/], Chathuranga is driven to spread knowledge on automated testing to his local community. His current initiatives include moderating communities, developing content, and guest speaker opportunities. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Having the insights and getting the issues sorted out faster How do you currently help others that are

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New for Dashboard: Tests for Review

Today, we released a new user experience improvement for Cypress Dashboard that is designed to help you more efficiently identify tests that require your attention. The new “Tests for review” section of the Run Overview page consolidates previously disparate test results into a single view. By clicking the respective labels at the top of the new view, you can easily filter by failed, flaky, and changed test results. “Identifying and analyzing potentially problematic tests is critical to mainta

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Estefania Fdez

Meet Estefania. She brings over 10 years of automated testing experience to the Ambassador program! Her passion for supporting the Cypress community is reflected in her constant contributions through platforms such as Github, Discord, and Twitter. As a Cypress Ambassador, she strive to create gain insight from the Cypress team and share her experience with new users. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Share my knowledge and help others to use cypress! How do you currently help ot

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Carter Capocaccia

We first met Carter in an onboarding interview discussing his interest in the Ambassador program. What stood out most was his passion to educate Cypress users and provide support for technical problems.

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Jeetendra Gund

During his early days in the community discord channel, Jeetendra has always displayed an intense curiosity for the capabilities of Cypress.

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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 Ambassador Spotlight: Marko Kolasinac

Meet Marko, With such great success as a user, Marko has created a business model around his knowledge and passion with Cypress, which has flourished into AssertQA [https://www.linkedin.com/company/assertqa/]. Advocating for Cypress within his company internally helps new members adopt a tool that is guaranteed to improve their workflow and overall developer experience. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Our business is tied with Cypress so more engagement with Cypress community a

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