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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). Read more

Introducing Real World Testing with Cypress

Real World Testing with Cypress (RWT) is a four-course curriculum that teaches everything you need to know about testing modern web applications with Cypress. We believe Cypress is the best end-to-end testing tool. However, creating the best end-to-end testing tool is only part of the solution. Over

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Guest Post: Automating sensor processing tests with synthetic data

Note: This post was written by Zach Rattner, CTO & Co-Founder of Yembo, the leader in AI-powered virtual inspections. The problem Yembo is the global leader in AI-powered, virtual home surveys. Our product contains a web app where clients scan quick videos of the items in their home, and our compute

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Uploading html5 files made easy with the .selectFile command

Cypress has a built-in way for you to select files in an HTML5 input element and simulate dragging files into the browser with the introduction of the .selectFile() command. HTML5 input file upload With the .selectFile() command, you can easily select a fixture file in a form element: cy.get('input[

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Webcast Recording | Faire + Cypress: Building an E2E Strategy that Scales

Last week, Director of DX at Cypress, Amir Rustamzadeh, and Software Engineer at Faire, David Mamujee, presented a live webcast on how Faire scaled their E2E testing strategy with Cypress. Some of the key topics they covered include: How Faire organizes their multi-repo setup for testing both their

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Live Webcast | Faire + Cypress: Building an E2E Strategy that Scales

Faire’s fast-growing online marketplace enables over 30,000 independent brands to connect with over 250,000 retailers across the world. Join us Wednesday, September 29th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how the team built their E2E testing setup from scratch using Cypress, and how they accompli

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How to perform authentication testing with Cypress.

Authenticate Faster in Tests with the cy.session Command

Cypress helped you reduce the time it takes to log in before each of your tests with the introduction of the experimental cy.session() command with Cypress 8.2.0. To view the latest updates, including our fix for the issue with the cy.session command in Cypress 12.1.0, view our changelog. A Brief Re

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Visual Testing for Emails Sent Using 3rd Party Dynamic Templates

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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Webcast Recording | Flaky Test Management with Cypress

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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Full Testing of HTML Emails using SendGrid and Ethereal Accounts

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 really work? In t

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