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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: Testing Lists of Items

We can start by testing a list with two items. In a situation where we test a couple of items, the testing flow can be pretty straightforward. In our first test, we use .get() to select our todo items and then .eq() to filter the item we want to work with.

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Webcast Recording | How Lightstep Quadrupled Deployment Velocity with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, and Lightstep Product Engineers, Jonah Moses and Ted Pennings, presented a live webcast on how the team went from a 15-page document of step-by-step QA instructions for each deployment, to quadrupling deployment velocity with Cypress.

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How to Run Changed Specs First in a Pull Request

Imagine a large project with hundreds of Cypress spec files. If you work on just one feature and open a pull request with small code changes and corresponding updates to 1 Cypress spec file, it makes sense to try running that changed spec file first.

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Guest Post: High Quality React apps with Nx & Cypress

It all started with sprinkling some jQuery here and there to make our server-side rendered pages more dynamic and appealing. Since then we’ve come a long way.

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Live Webcast | How Lightstep Quadrupled Deployment Velocity with Cypress

Join us on Wednesday, April 15th at 2 pm ET/11 am PT to learn how the Lightstep Product Engineering team went from a 15-page document of step-by-step QA instructions for each deployment, to quadrupling deployment velocity with Cypress.

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Guest Post: How UR used Cypress to convert a legacy app

In this blog post I’ll share my tips on how to use Cypress as a tool to convert legacy apps into a modern web framework.

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Streaming Test Results

A single Cypress test might be fast, but if you wait for an entire large test run to finish, you might as well watch the paint dry.

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Run Cypress Tests on Netlify Using a Single Line

Netlify became a popular Continuous Delivery (CD) and hosting solution for a lot of organizations due to its simplicity and power. Pick your repository, click "Deploy site" ... and the site magically appears.

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Guest Post: Improve your error screenshots in Cypress

Cypress makes it incredibly easy to read their code. Even people that don’t work with Cypress here at Slido can easily understand what is going on in the test code...

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