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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

Show Code Coverage on GitLab CI

End-to-end tests can be extremely effective at covering a lot of your application's code. Even a single realistic test, because it loads and exercises the entire application, can cover 60-70% of the statements. Introduction Let's look at a concrete example in the cypress-example-todomvc-redux [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-todomvc-redux] repository. The spec cypress/integration/first-spec.js has a single test "adds todos" that covers 72.6% of the source code with just a few com

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Love Cypress? Share your video with the community!

We love the fact that our community is eager to share their experiences using Cypress, and we wanted to see if there was a way to record and share your stories. So we're reaching out to you - to ask you to share a short video of how Cypress has impacted the way you make apps. These video stories will be featured on our blog, shared with the community - and if we get enough of them - put on our website for everyone to see. As a thank you, we'll send you some amazing Cypress swag! Submit Your Vi

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Guest Post: New to front-end testing? Start from the top of the pyramid!

An easier approach to get immediate results (and satisfaction) from the front-end testing world.

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Webcast Recording | Continuous Integration with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Engineering Gleb Bahmutov [https://twitter.com/bahmutov], and Cypress Ambassador + Founder of Let Your Nerd Be Heard [https://letyournerdbeheard.com/], Justin James [https://twitter.com/digitaldrummerj], presented a live webcast on how to set up Cypress correctly on a variety of CI providers, from TeamCity to Travis to CircleCI. Some of the key topics they covered include: * The difference between "cypress open" vs "cypress run" * Setting up Cypress on CI * CI examples

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Cypress Integrated with AWS Amplify Console for End-to-End Testing

Yesterday, the AWS Amplify Console team announced Cypress as their tool of choice for adding End-to-End Testing for the Amplify Console [https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/]. Connecting an app in Amplify Console will detect Cypress installations and present a base amplify.yml which will run the Cypress integration tests during the Test phase of the build. This may need to be adjusted to accommodate installation and build steps for the project connected. Support has been added to our cypres

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Testing Electron.js applications using Cypress - alpha release

Note: At this time, Cypress is no longer supporting testing Electron.js applications, and are no longer publishing the binaries referenced in this post. Thank you for your interest, and check out our Roadmap [https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/roadmap.html#Upcoming-features] for information on upcoming features from Cypress. Cypress is great for testing web applications in its built-in Electron.js browser or in an external Chrome browser. Today I am happy to announce that we have started

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Live Webcast | Continuous Integration with Cypress

Register [https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9715682309379/WN_MUIJzTKCQQujUeUg6-IUXg] At Cypress, we believe running end-to-end tests on CI should be part of any development pipeline. But with so many CI providers to choose from, setting up each service can present a number of different obstacles. Join us on Monday, September 23rd at 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT [https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9715682309379/WN_MUIJzTKCQQujUeUg6-IUXg] to learn how to set up Cypress correctly on a variety of CI providers,

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Webcast Recording | Cypress + Gatsby: Confidently fast web development

Last week, our Head of Developer Experience Amir Rustamzadeh [twitter.com/amirrustam], and Software Developer at Gatsby [gatsbyjs.org], Dustin Schau [https://twitter.com/SchauDustin], presented a live webcast on how the Gatsby team leverages Cypress E2E testing to confidently accept more open-source contributions than ever before. Some of the key topics they covered include: * Why Gatsby chose Cypress * How Gatsby used E2E tests to increase pull-request acceptance velocity * How to write

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Cypress is one of the "20 Rising Stars" in the Forbes Cloud 100 List!

The Cypress team is thrilled to announce that we've been named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes [https://www.forbes.com/] in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners [https://www.bvp.com/] and Salesforce Ventures [https://www.salesforce.com/company/ventures/]. The 20 Rising Stars represent young, high-growth and category-leading cloud companies who have raised up to

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