Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Cuong Le

Welcome back to our Ambassador Spotlight series! With every blog, we sit down with one of the people who make the Cypress community what it is. We ask where they started, how they think about testing, and what they've learned along the way. Want to know more about the Ambassador program? Learn more here.

This time we're talking with Cuong Le, who writes about test automation on Medium to help QA teams shift testing left without the growing pains. Read on to hear which Cypress feature catches frontend bugs before the code ever reaches integration, the small habit that makes tests more stable, and where new users should start. You'll also get a quote about a thousand-mile walk that works surprisingly well as a testing philosophy.

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador?

I want to share my experience with Cypress with the QA community, so that everyone can apply shift-left testing with automation efficiently.

How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress?

Currently, I'm writing blog posts on Medium about automation testing with Cypress and automation testing in general.

What is your favorite Cypress feature?

Being able to do component testing to check if we introduce any new bugs into the frontend quickly without deploying the code to the integration environment yet.

What is your favorite "Cypress Best Practice" and why?

The data-cy best practice which makes it easy for testers to identify locators and allow testing more stable.

Outside of work, what are your favorite things to do (hobbies, passions, etc.)?

I enjoy walking and skateboarding outside of work.

What is one professional milestone you are proud of?

Yeah, being a Cypress Ambassador, to be honest.

For new users - what is the best way to "get started" with Cypress?

The best way is to go through the get-started document where users can get started right away with a working example test.

What is your favorite quote or saying?

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’”