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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

Test Your Web App in Dark Mode

Designing a good Dark appearance style takes work, which brings me to the main topic of this blog post - how do you test your web application using a Light or Dark appearance?

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Guest Post: I did a Cypress workshop and this is what I learned

Note: This post was originally published by Filip Hric [https://twitter.com/filip_hric] on Medium [https://medium.com/@filiphric/i-did-a-cypress-workshop-and-this-is-what-i-learned-8de28b2fbaeb] . Filip is a QA lead at Slido [https://cypress-io.ghost.io/blog/p/0d09534f-c558-4166-8e6f-8ae839cadca4/sli.do], a lifelong IT enthusiast with a background in psychology, and a Cypress [https://www.cypress.io/] ambassador. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Use meaningful smoke tests

Let's say you cover your application with end-to-end tests. You achieve the elusive 100% code coverage using the Cypress code coverage plugin. Is this enough to guarantee a good user experience?

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Guest Post: Writing E2E Tests Without Breaking Your Development Flow

Getting started with a fullstack JavaScript project these days is exciting, but often overwhelming. There's so much tooling that can make our lives easier, but if we're not careful then we can lose a tonne of time to choosing between similar tools, and making others play nicely together.

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

Register [https://go.cypress.io/siemens-webcast-registration?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=siemens_webcast] Siemens [https://new.siemens.com/us/en.html] is commonly known as a global powerhouse in the world of digital infrastructure. With a vast catalog of solutions recognized for their ingenuity and simplicity, the company's SaaS services are also expected to follow these principles. When the Siemens SW Hub Cloud team began working on Building Operator [https://new.siemens.com/gl

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Drastically Simplify Testing on CI with Cypress GitHub Action

We are so excited to introduce cypress-io/github-action - an action we specifically coded to make running Cypress end-to-end on GitHub as easy as 🥧.

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Self-testing JAM pages

JAM Stack [https://jamstack.org/] has become a popular way to build websites - you can write your pages using Markdown (the M in JAM), build using JavaScript tools that fetch data from APIs and get mostly static sites that are very fast. In this blog post I will show how each Markdown page can also include its own end-to-end tests using the Cypress Test Runner. Code: The source repo for this blog post is at bahmutov/self-testing-jam [https://github.com/bahmutov/self-testing-jam] and the deploye

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Chrome Video Recording, Mouse Improvements, and More in Cypress 3.5 & 3.6

Last week we released Cypress 3.6 [https://on.cypress.io/changelog#3-6-0] shortly after the release of version 3.5 [https://on.cypress.io/changelog#3-5-0] , which was a big release that introduced various enhancements such as Chrome video recording, mouse event improvements, and included many bug fixes. Check out all the changes within 3.5 and 3.6 changelogs [https://on.cypress.io/changelog], but for now let's dive into some notable additions within these releases. Chrome Video Recording It is

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Split a very long Cypress test into shorter ones using App Actions

How can we split a longer test into a series of independent short tests without losing the test's parts?

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