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description: "Read every Cypress blog post by Melissa Milligan, newest first, from testing techniques to Cypress product news."
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# cy.blog()

Releases, AI-assisted testing, and quality guides from the Cypress team. See what changed, whether it affects you, and how teams ship with confidence.

## Articles written by Melissa Milligan

[CypressConf 2026: Answering the signal CypressConf 2026 is a wrap! Thank you to everyone who joined us for three days of talks and hands-on workshops. This year’s theme, The Signal Is Up, asked a question every team knows well: how do you know a release is ready when the build is green? From the founders: Quality in the era of the agentic SDLC In the founder session, Brian Mann, Founder of Cypress.io, and Jennifer Shehane, Co-founder and Head of Product, talked about using AI so teams spend more time building and less time cleani Read more](/blog/cypressconf-2026-answering-the-signal)

[Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Boris Selivanov What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I see being an Ambassador as the ultimate form of asynchronous collaboration. My goal is to share things that move the needle for other engineers. By comparing how different teams solve the same testing problems, we can turn isolated project victories into shared wins. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I'm the person teammates ping when a test goes flaky or they're not sure how to appro Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-boris-selivanov)

[Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Javier Flores What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I want to help grow a strong, practical testing community around Cypress. I show people working code and let them build confidence by doing. That's the same philosophy behind the bootcamp I run: everyone leaves with their own repo, not just notes. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I mentor teammates and collaborate closely with developers and product owners to improve testing practices Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-javier-flores)

[Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Tatiana Mikhaleva What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? For years, testing was seen as a "bottleneck" or a "necessary evil." Cypress changed that, it made testing feel like development. As the Founder of DevOps.Pink, my mission is to make complex cloud-native tools accessible and approachable. Being a Cypress Ambassador allows me to bridge the gap between Developers and QA, showing that reliable automation isn't about gatekeeping; it's about giving engineers confidence (and their weekends back!). How d Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-tatiana-mikhaleva)

[Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Anvesh Puli What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I'm driven by the "build and break" cycle. I want to get my hands dirty with new solutions in testing and automation, but I don't just want to use the tool, I want to help evolve it. What keeps me pushing is the challenge of solving those "unsolvable" community issues and finding workarounds that actually stick. Being an Ambassador isn't just a title for me; it's an invitation to keep challenging myself while making the automation world a little le Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-anvesh-puli)

[Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Vladimir Mikhalev What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? As a Docker Captain, CNCF Ambassador, IBM Champion, AWS Community Builder and Cypress Ambassador, I've spent years helping teams design CI/CD pipelines that are robust, scalable, and secure. One thing I've learned? Automated testing is non-negotiable, and Cypress has quickly become my go-to tool for end-to-end testing. It's modern, developer-friendly, and makes testing feel like less of a chore and more of a power move. What motivates me as a Cyp Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-vladimir-mikhalev)

[Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Raju Dandigam What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? What motivates me is the impact Cypress can have on how engineering teams think about quality. I have seen teams move from slow, fragile testing workflows into fast, reliable, developer-driven automation using Cypress. In my experience leading adoption in a large production environment, Cypress was not just a tool change, it helped create a cultural shift where testing became part of everyday development, feedback loops became faster, and teams gai Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-raju-dandigam)