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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

Webcast Recording | Build invincible integration tests using Cypress and cypress-testing-library

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, and Frontend Developer at Fiverr, Roman Sandler, presented a live webcast on how to write durable, future-proof Cypress tests using cypress-testing-library.

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End-to-end Testing Mobile Apps with Ionic and Cypress

Ionic Framework is a free, open-source framework for developing native mobile applications using web development frameworks like Angular, React, and (coming soon!) Vue

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Experimental Fetch Polyfill

Let's take an application that makes an Ajax call to the browser to load a list of ... fruits. You can find this awesome and healthy application in Cypress Example Recipes [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-recipes#stubbing-and-spying] under name "Stubbing window.fetch". Application Every time you visit an application you get five new fruitsThis application presents two challenges to end-to-end tests. First, the data is random - every time the test visits the page localhost:7080 a

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Live Webcast | Build invincible integration tests using Cypress and cypress-testing-library

Register [https://go.cypress.io/cypress-testing-library-webcast-registration?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Roman_Sandler_Webcast] A member of the testing-library.com [https://testing-library.com/] family, cypress-testing-library [https://testing-library.com/docs/cypress-testing-library/intro] is a collection of simple and complete custom Cypress commands and utilities that encourage good testing practices. Join us on Wednesday, July 8th at 1pm EDT/10am PDT [https://go.cypress.io

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When Can The Test Log Out?

Recently, we released the Cypress Real World App [https://www.cypress.io/blog/2020/06/11/introducing-the-cypress-real-world-app/] - a modern web application with a full set of E2E and API tests showing the recommended best practices for writing tests. From the start, we had Linux continuous integration running tests on every commit. After the release, we added a Windows continuous integration workflow in #421 [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app/pull/421]- and it started failing

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Guest Post: Core Cypress Lessons We Learned That 10x-ed Our E2E Automation

For some time now, I've been leading the QA efforts at Stoplight - a USA-based startup that we are the engineering partner.

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Webcast Recording | How Optimizely Tests Features and Feature Flags 300% Faster with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, Software QA Engineer at Optimizely, Todd Seller, and Engineer Manager in Quality at Optimizely, Jeff Sing, presented a live webcast on how Optimizely tests features and feature flags 300% faster with Cypress.

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Extending the Cypress Config File

In this blog post I will show how to implement extends syntax in the Cypress JSON configuration file without waiting for the Cypress team to add support.

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Introducing the Cypress Real World App

We recently open-sourced the Cypress Real World App (RWA) project on GitHub. The RWA is an example payment application for demonstrating real-world usage of Cypress testing methods, patterns, practices, and workflows.

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