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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

Cypress code coverage for applications created using create-react-app v3

Creating a new fully featured React application using Create React App [https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app] v3 is as easy as two NPM commands $ npm i -g create-react-app + [email protected] $ create-react-app my-new-app Then switch to the new folder my-new-app and run npm start or yarn start - the application will be transpiled, and bundled, and will be running locally at url localhost:3000. Under the hood the start script calls the react-scripts commands to actually do the he

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Guest Post: The concept of "Monitoring Tests"

Some months ago I worked on the business.conio.com site, based on Gatsby. Apart from sharing some plugins I wrote, I wanted to improve the website performances as much as we could. Luckily, Gatsby stands out by self when speaking about performance but you know, it’s never enough.

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Guest Post: Sleeping better at night with Cypress.io

This post was originally published by Tomasz Łakomy on dev.to. Tomasz is a Senior Frontend Engineer at OLX, tech speaker, egghead.io instructor, and jQuery evangelist.

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Webcast Recording | Spotahome’s Test-First Engineering Culture Using Cypress

Last week, our VP of Marketing Steven Yi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyiwa/], Spotahome's QA Automation Engineer David Zambrana [https://twitter.com/DavidPanamera], and Spotahome's Front-End Engineer Borja Guzman [https://twitter.com/xack1991] presented a live webcast on how the team is pursuing engineering excellence with Cypress. Some of the key topics they covered include: * How Spotahome created their capability by organizing into small agile teams * Why the team is making testing

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Live Webcast | Cypress + Gatsby: Confidently fast web development

Join Amir Rustamzadeh, Head of Developer Experience at Cypress.io, and Dustin Schau, Software Engineer at Gatsby to see how the Gatsby team leverages Cypress end-to-end (E2E) testing to confidently accept more open-source contributions than ever before.

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Guest Post: Await, do not make your E2E tests sleep

Sleeping: the worst practice in E2E testing and the concept of Deterministic Events.

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Webcast Recording | From Zero to Hero with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Marketing Steven Yi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyiwa/], Slido's QA Lead Filip Hric [https://twitter.com/filip_hric], and Slido's Head of Engineering Lubo Drobny [https://twitter.com/DrobnyLubo] presented a live webcast on how the Slido team found success with Cypress, despite starting with no JavaScript experience. Some of the key topics they covered include: * How Slido structures their teams and processes * Their journey towards quality and test automation * How

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Building Integration Tests for Shopify Themes with Cypress

This past June, Michael Shannon [https://twitter.com/michaelrshannon] (Co-Founder of Pixelcabin [https://t.co/QxeeAZusFu?amp=1]) gave an excellent talk at Shopify Unite—with a full overview of Pixelcabin's automated test integration suite using Cypress and TravisCI for Shopify themes. You can watch a recording of the talk below: Pixelcabin, which has been working with Shopify for seven years, focuses on solving complex problems across a broad range of merchants. They provide a combination of a

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Webcast Recording | Complete Code Coverage with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Engineering Gleb Bahmutov [https://twitter.com/bahmutov] and Head of Developer Experience Amir Rustamzadeh [https://twitter.com/amirrustam] presented a live webcast to give a live demo on how to generate coverage reports from your Cypress tests. They also covered: * How effective full end-to-end (E2E) tests are at validating all levels of your application * How to leverage unit tests to increase coverage of code-paths that are unreachable by E2E tests * How a

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