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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

Guest Post: Retrying your tests is actually a good thing (If your approach is right)

Today I want to share my personal opinion on using test retries without hiding or ignoring problems with your test cases.

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

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, and Sr. QA Engineer at GoFundMe Charity, Todd Williams, presented a live webcast on how GoFundMe’s QA team and developers achieved 30x faster test runs with Cypress.

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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 🎉

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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! 🎉

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When Can The Test Navigate?

In this blog post I will show a test that appears simple, yet acts in surprisingly annoying and frustrating ways. We will slightly change the test to make it reliable and flake-free.

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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...

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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.

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Sorting the Table

This recipe shows how to verify that an Ag-Grid table is sorted correctly. The source code can be found in the cypress-example-recipes repository under the "Testing the DOM" list.

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Do Not Get Too Detached

When the Cypress Test Runner runs through the test's steps, the application can update itself, causing problems. Often a very frustrating problem our users encounter simply says cy... failed because the element has been detached from the DOM. You can see this error below and its explanation using the link "Learn more [https://on.cypress.io/element-has-detached-from-dom]". Element detached from the DOM error messageIn this blog post I will go through a scenario showing this problem and show how

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