Today we're helping you reduce the time it takes to log in before each of your tests with the introduction of the experimental cy.session() command, new in Cypress 8.2.0. A brief refresher on logging inWhen testing an application that requires authentication, it's common to create a cy.login() custo…
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This blog post will teach you how to visually verify the emails sent by a 3rd party service. Such verification is necessary to ensure the emails have the expected style, and include the necessary information. The post teaches you how to deal with the difficult email markup generated from dynamic tem…
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Last week, Cecelia Martinez, Technical Account Manager at Cypress, and Mike Cataldo, DX Engineer at Cypress, presented a live webcast on how to find and manage flaky tests in your test suite. Some of the key topics they covered include: The common causes of test flakiness, including DOM-related, net…
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Imagine you are sending beautiful HTML emails using your own SMTP server or even a 3rd party service like SendGrid. What if the emails are formatted incorrectly? What if the template string is incorrect and the user sees Dear <<undefined>>? Can you test the emails to make sure they reall…
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When building a design system, we like to see components rendered in isolation. What better tool to do that than Storybook? We can see our components, wrap them in decorators, and show our stakeholders beautiful user story demos. Once we know how our components should look, we want to test them. For…
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