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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

Maintaining accessibility through user-focused testing

In this blog post, I will outline my favorite user-focused approach to accessibility testing, show how this can be applied in your Cypress tests, and explain why Cypress Component Tests may be the best place to do this kind of testing. Accessibility can be a complicated and intimidating topic. Often when we talk about it, we think in terms of checklists, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) criteria, and legal requirements. But at its core, it isn’t really about those things: it’s about

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Component Testing for Engineering Leadership

This post is the third of a series that explores how Component Testing can benefit different parts of your team or organization. If you’re wondering why you and your team should adopt Component Testing, this series is for you! We covered how developers and QA teams can improve the quality of their front-end code through Cypress Component Testing. In this post, we’ll dig into how Component Testing can improve the efficiency of the managers’ teams. As an engineering leader, you are often challen

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Webinar: Speed Up Your E2E Testing with Ephemeral Preview Environments

End-to-end testing is one of the most important tools in your tool belt. Depending on your current environment set up, there are known problems that teams run into with e2e testing, which can make it slower than it should be. Several factors contribute to this: * Fragile or flaky tests * Testing too late in your pipeline or CI/CD * Lack of available test environments (literally waiting for the environment to free up) * Database with seed data isn’t set up correctly or gets corrupted * Fai

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Kiran Chilakamarri

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I was motivated to be a part of a growing community. I wanted to be able to experiment with new features and connect with wider cypress experts. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? Support to unpack all the great things cypress has to offer to fellow testers through chat and community events. What is your favorite Cypress feature? 1. Cy.intercept() - how easy it makes intercept requests

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New for Cypress Cloud: Microsoft Teams integration

We know that quality and engineering teams need visibility into their CI builds to catch issues early on. That's why we're excited to announce our new beta integration with Microsoft Teams, which makes it easier than ever to view Cypress test results in real-time, directly in your Teams channels. One of the biggest challenges facing engineering and quality teams today is the sheer number of CI build processes, systems, and notifications that can easily go unnoticed. Our new integration with Mic

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Webinar Recap: Best practices for testing in CI/CD with Cypress Cloud

Recently, we hosted a webinar featuring Ely Lucas, Developer Experience Engineer, and Shawn Harris, Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer. They shared valuable insights and best practices for constructing a test automation strategy, configuring and setting up tests, and seamlessly integrating them into your CI/CD pipeline. If you missed the live event, don't worry! You can watch the recorded webinar here: We received an overwhelming number of questions during the webinar, and unfortunately, we coul

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Alex Niculae

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Having access to discuss with the product and development teams of Cypress is a rare gem. This, and being an active part of a community that I appreciate and value, which helps the software QA world be better, more standardized and stable. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? As a Company Ambassador, I onboard new joiners in the world of Cypress, make sure that we follow best practices int

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Bartosz Ciach

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I joined the program as one of the first members in the world, which I am very proud of. 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. I started using Cypress in 2016. Back then, as a developer with not that much seniority, I was looking for a solution to write tests

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The NEW CircleCI Cypress Orb

As you embark on your journey writing automated tests, it’s likely that you’ll need to run them in a CI/CD environment. Configuring these systems can be cumbersome and unfamiliar to application developers. Luckily, Cypress is compatible with all Continuous Integration (CI) providers and systems! 🎉 But how can we help make this journey smoother and less complex? Cypress partnered with CircleCI in 2018 to provide the Cypress Orb. Since then, Cypress has grown and matured, as has the tooling arou

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