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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

New for Cypress Cloud: Enterprise Reporting

We're excited to introduce a new tool designed to assist technical experts and company leadership in analyzing their organization’s testing progress. Cypress Cloud Enterprise plan users can now access organization-level trends and insights on adoption, usage, and performance. This tool is specifically crafted to drive accountability, enforce standardization, streamline workflows, and aid organizations in identifying areas where Cypress is delivering value. Above all, it aims to empower the proc

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Joydeep Das

"What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Firstly, it's the love for this tool and how it has made my life better as an engineer. This should most definitely be a pathway for me to involve in a deeper way with the community as well as to learn, contribute, and empower many more folks with this powerful tool, which is set forth to transform how we test modern-day web apps. How do you currently help others who are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I train people getting

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Crafting a Robust Testing Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Scale Your Testing Efforts

This comprehensive guide provides a roadmap for scaling your testing efforts and navigating the challenges of modern software development.

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Dennis Bergevin

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Learning and sharing! I enjoy hearing from other users and finding understanding in a community.  How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? Learning from the excellent official documentation or from leaders in the Cypress community, finding ways to best adapt to a specific challenge and share that material or knowledge with my team. What is your favorite Cypress feature? There are many to cho

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Randy Guerra

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Being a part of the community that gathers people engaged, at least to a small extent, in the development of the testing technology which is so amazing and friendly to testers and developers is something which motivates me a lot. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? In all the companies I have worked for, I highly recommend the use of the framework. I believe that it makes each test, carri

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Submit Your Proposal for CypressConf 2024 by April 17th

Welcome, test automation leaders, to CypressConf 2024!  As we gear up for another year of pushing the boundaries in test automation, we're calling upon you to share your groundbreaking ideas, revolutionary approaches, and latest advancements in the field. Join us in shaping the future of test automation by submitting your Call for Proposals (CFP) for CypressConf 2024! Why Submit a CFP? * Share Your Expertise: Do you have firsthand experience implementing test automation solutions? Share your

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: David Lukić-Hanomihl

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? As a Cypress Ambassador, I am motivated by the opportunity to share a tool that has brought me immense value and joy in my work and to help others discover its power and simplicity. I am passionate about using Cypress and see it as a way to contribute to the community by spreading awareness and knowledge about this incredible tool. Being an ambassador allows me to play an active role in enabling more people to leverage its benefits in their project

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Webinar Recap: Using Cypress and GitHub Actions to Build an Automation Pipeline

This week we were joined by Carter Capocaccia, Senior Engineering Manager of Quality Automation at Hilton, for an illuminating webinar where the he demystified the intricacies of setting up CICD workflows and integrating quality automation, using GitHub Actions, Cypress, and Vercel. Here are the top five takeaways from that insightful session: 1. Understanding CI/CD: The Foundation of Quality Automation Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) form the backbone of efficient de

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How to Execute Test Cases In Parallel with Cypress Cloud Using GitHub CI/CD Actions

In a world where time equates to money, minimizing execution time for various actions is imperative. This holds true for testing, where parallelizing test cases becomes a key strategy to reduce testing durations and accelerate test suite execution. Cypress Cloud, in conjunction with GitHub Actions, facilitates the parallel execution of test cases, enabling simultaneous testing across multiple computers or environments. This blog post will explore the following aspects: * Introduction to Cypre

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