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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

Exciting News: Cypress Cloud Plan User Limits Increased to 50! 🎉

At Cypress, we understand that the key to successful software development is equipping developers with the tools and resources they need. As we focus more on redefining pre-production app quality and supporting test-forward culture, it’s never been more important to enable our Cypress Cloud users to scale quicker adoption of test automation throughout your organization. We heard your feedback: more users + more test coverage = less costly production bugs! That's why we're thrilled to announce a

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Configure retry thresholds with our new experimental feature

In the dynamic world of software testing, the importance of ensuring the reliability of your end-to-end (E2E) tests cannot be overstated. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a new experiment allowing you to configure thresholds for test retries! Context: What’s a retry? End-to-end (E2E) tests are indispensable for evaluating complex systems, but they can encounter unpredictable conditions that make them unreliable, causing sporadic failures called “test flake”. Flaky tests are those which s

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Cypress Conf 2023 Event Recap

CypressConf 2023 was a game-changer! Our inaugural gathering of testing enthusiasts brought together thousands of software developers and quality engineering professionals from across the globe for a day of visionary thought leadership, best practice insights, and practical tips for effective automated testing. Attendees, whether seasoned Cypress users or newcomers to the field, found a marathon of sessions, networking opportunities, and vibrant community interactions. Let's dive into the top hi

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CypressConf 2023: Your Ultimate Guide

CypressConf 2023 is just around the corner, and we want to make sure you're fully prepared for this exciting event! Here's everything you need to know before you go: Event Experience: * Leadership Board: Get ready to engage in the "Code Coverage" challenge and earn points by participating in various activities throughout the event. Your chance to win exclusive Cypress Swag awaits! * Speaker of the Night: The "Top Speaker" will be selected based on attendee votes at the end of the event. Your

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New for Cypress Cloud: Enhance PR Review Efficiency with Branch Review

Cypress Cloud users can now analyze changes to their test suite using a before-and-after view of changes made by each pull request, so they can swiftly pinpoint the differences, streamline review cycles, and prevent regressions. We're excited to introduce Branch Review, Cypress Cloud's latest feature that will enable Github-integrated developers and QA engineers to understand the impact of their current branch’s code changes on their test suite. This release aims to increase the speed and accur

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Changes in defense of Cypress Intellectual Property

💡Please note that we've published a follow on blog post with more details as to why we made the decision described below. Read the newer post here. Starting with version 13 of the Cypress app, Cypress will begin enforcing data recording restrictions that block certain third-party products and services in order to protect our intellectual property. The vast majority of our user base including the broader Cypress ecosystem will see no impact from these changes. Cypress was founded 9 years ago t

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Announcing Cypress 13 with Test Replay!

Cypress 13 is here, featuring Test Replay! Interact with tests as they occurred during Continuous Integration (CI).

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Webinar Recap: Introducing The New Era of Debugging

Recently, we were joined by Cypress Ambassadors and Brian Mann, the visionary founder behind Cypress, to discuss an exciting new feature released in Cypress 13: Test Replay! In this article, we’ve summarized the key takeaways from the webinar. If you’re curious for more, the full recording is available on YouTube. Last week, we announced the release of Test Replay in Cypress Cloud. This feature allows you to interact with previous tests as they occurred during Continuous Integration (CI), elimi

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Move Your Protractor Tests to Cypress Faster with the Cypress Migrator

We’ve created an educational tool to help you visualize and learn the differences between Protractor and Cypress APIs to move your tests over more rapidly: the Cypress Migrator! The tool is a hands-on playground where you can easily paste in code snippets from Protractor to see what they look like in Cypress. It is worth noting that since there are major differences in the way Protractor code and Cypress code are written, it’s not intended, at this time, to be a tool that would transform entire

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