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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

Live Webcast: How PlanGrid (Autodesk) Achieved Consistency in Automation Across 20 Development Teams

With over 1 million projects and 90,000 weekly active users, PlanGrid (Autodesk) is the first construction productivity software enabling contractors and owners in commercial, heavy civil, and other industries to work and collaborate from anywhere.

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Building a Product Team for Cypress

World-class organizations aren’t found, they’re made.

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Meet the 2020 Cypress Ambassadors

Cypress Ambassadors are our community network of experts - sharing the benefits of testing with Cypress at events, conferences, meetups, and online. As 2020 begins, we want to take a moment to recognize them for their contributions and share how you can apply to be an Ambassador, too!

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Testing the Browser Notification API

How do you test native browser APIs like Notification? If you don't have a real modern browser during tests, it seems like a challenge. But Cypress controls an Electron or Chrome or (soon) Firefox browser, so your tests can access the real thing.

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When Can The Test Stop?

Imagine a small "application" that shows Window Confirm popup when the user clicks a button. The HTML might look like this...

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How to load the React DevTools extension in Cypress

In this blog post, I will show how to automatically load the React DevTools Chrome extension when launching the browser during Cypress tests.

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Guest Post: Software tests as a documentation tool

Why tests are perfect to tell a story of your code.

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Asserting network calls from cypress tests

Asserting Network Calls from Cypress Tests

The Cypress Test Runner can "see" everything happening inside the web application under test: DOM elements, cookies, local storage items, location, etc. The Test Runner can also spy on and stub network requests the application is making to its backend API or even to the 3rd party APIs. This blog post shows how easy it is to confirm the network calls from the web app as expected. What Are Network Calls? Network Calls, in the context of web applications, refer to the interactions between the ap

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Webcast Recording | How Siemens SW Hub increased their test productivity by 38% with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Engineering Gleb Bahmutov, and Test Lead for Siemens SW Hub, Murat Ozcan, presented a live webcast...

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