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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

Shrink the Untestable Code With App Actions And Effects

This blog post shows how to shrink untestable code and pushes it to the edges of the applications. The core of the web application will remain easy to check from our tests, while external effects can be observed or stubbed. The Cypress.io test runner has limitations. For example, when controlling the network requests, Cypress can spy and stub XHR requests only. We will remove this limit when issue #687 [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/687] lands, but for now if your application is

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Join the Team With 10,000 (GitHub) Stars!

An amazing thing happened a few days ago—we reached 10,000 stars on Github, less than two years after making our open-source repo available. > 10,000 Github stars in two years! Source https://timqian.com/star-history/#cypress-io/cypress If you haven’t tried Cypress yet, check out our docs [on.cypress.io] and give our automated testing tool and dashboard a try—getting started takes just 5 minutes. We think you’ll be pleased with the power and ease of use of our testing framework, the Test Run

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New Feature: Log in to the Cypress Dashboard via Google

Just a quick product update: you can now log into the Cypress Dashboard via Google! GitHub is home base for many of the developers using Cypress—which is why it was our initial focus when we enabled social login to the Cypress Dashboard [https://dashboard.cypress.io]. But as we’ve grown, we’ve heard from people outside that developer ecosystem that would like access too. Our response is simple: whether you’re a developer using GitLab, or a product manager that doesn’t code at all, we want every

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Modern Front-End Testing with Cypress

This is a guest post from Michael Herman [https://mherman.org/], a software engineer and educator who lives in the Denver area. He is the founder of TestDriven.io [https://testdriven.io/]. Besides development, he enjoys building financial models, tech writing, hiking, and teaching. Cypress [https://www.cypress.io/] is a modern web automation test framework designed to simplify browser testing—and it’s much more than just an end-to-end test automation tool. Cypress is a developer tool made to b

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Meet our new VP of Marketing: Steven Yi

Cypress is pleased to announce, Steven Yi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyiwa/] has joined Cypress.io as our vice president of marketing. In addition to his experience in developer evangelism and product marketing, he spent the first seven years of his career as a developer, working on large web e-commerce systems and enterprise integrations. Throughout his career he’s used several languages and platforms: Node.js, TypeScript and Express for web API and server-side execution, Python/Django, C

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When Can The Test Click?

Recently a user opened a Cypress issue #3135 [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/3135] asking why the cy.click() [https://on.cypress.io/click] command was behaving differently than the way click behaved when a user clicks on the button. We’ve seen many people ask similar questions involving click and wanted to address how to ensure your tests behave the same way as a user’s behavior. The problem The problem is straightforward once we walk through how Cypress works. Let’s use the web a

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Using Nrwl Nx to Add Cypress to Your Angular Development Workflow

This is a guest post from Benjamin Cabanes, an Angular Engineer at the Angular consulting firm Nrwl (Narwhal Technologies Inc.) in Toronto. As an active contributor to Nrwl’s Nx open source project, Ben also works with Nrwl’s American enterprise clients in the Telecom and Financial Services space. Ben regularly blogs about best practices when building Angular applications at scale. One of our goals at Nrwl.io [https://nrwl.io/] is to modernize the enterprise. That’s why we built Nrwl Nx [https:

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Happy 2019 from Cypress!

As our team gets a running start to the new year, we think reflecting on how far Cypress.io has come in 2018 serves as the perfect conduit to determining our goals for 2019. We reached some truly unprecedented achievements, and we could not have done it without our outstanding Cypress community. Below are some of the highlights of 2018, as well as what we plan to accomplish in the year ahead. #2018-A-Year-of-Growth2018: A Year of Growth This past June brought the acquisition of our CEO, Drew La

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Application Actions: Use Them Instead of Page Objects

Hello, reader. This article was an opinion piece about why app actions are better than page objects. The page object pattern is well known in the QA community, and widely and successfully used in the Cypress ecosystem. Writing maintainable end-to-end tests is challenging. Often testers create another layer of indirection on top of the web page called page objects to execute common actions. In this post I argue that page objects are a bad practice, and suggest dispatching actions directly to the

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