cy.blog()

Sharing our challenges, mistakes, hacks, successes, opinions and news

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

Check Out Our Experimental Release of Run All Specs

In case you missed it, we recently brought back the ability for users to run all specs and run a filtered subset of specs. This feature was a staple of many Cypress developers’ workflows, allowing them to quickly run through all of the specs that might have been affected by a code change or run their entire test suite at once while in open mode. When we released Cypress 10, we removed this feature because it did not meet the standards of stability and determinism that cypress run offers. Howeve

Read more

Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Chintan Shah

Meet Chintan A passionate problem solver who is driven to educate the next generation of developers. Chintan is excited to provide his experience with Cypress to users who are facing complex issues. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Upgrading people's skill set in areas of Ui automation How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? Spending most of my time helping others in Cypress What is your favorite Cypress feature? Plenty,

Read more

Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Alain Chautard

Meet Alain. As a GDE (Angular), tech trainer and teacher, Alain was the perfect candidate for the Ambassador program! His passion for  helping others learn and grow will bring value to community members and the issues they are experiencing. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Helping others is the most rewarding thing one can do. I've been teaching web development for years, and seeing people grow and transform their careers as a result is fantastic. As a Cypress Ambassador, I'm lo

Read more

New for Cypress Cloud: Run duration analytics, recommendations, and configurable Auto Cancellation

Today, we're excited to announce the release of a new update to Cypress Cloud with all new test run analytics and actionable recommendations for how to optimize your test suite’s performance in CI. Run duration analytics Now available on the Run Overview [http://on.cypress.io/runs] page is a new trends visualization that displays the current and historical run durations of your branch’s test suite. For each test run displayed in the chart, you can hover to explore the test run’s status, run du

Read more

Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Vipul Goyal

Meet Vipul. A true believer of Communal Learning. He is committed to facilitating logical debate as a tool for learning. Vipul is excited to bring his certified training methods to the Cypress community. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Technology is something which inspires me, and Cypress is one of those technologies which constantly presents new challenges, learnings and, most importantly, a panacea to real-time problems. For the past couple of years, Cypress has been my best

Read more
Learn the value of component testing for developers

What Cypress Component Testing Means for Developers

Recently, we launched Component Testing to GA! In this blog series, we’re going to break down how Component Testing brings layered benefits to 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! In this first post, we’ll dive into Component Testing benefits for developers. Let’s start with the development workflow. Cypress Component Testing is a leap forward in the experience of writing component tests,

Read more

Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: David Avila

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I am most excited to give back to the community in any way shape or form. I enjoy learning new things, especially about Cypress. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? In my off time I mentor others that want to get into STEM. I specifically help with learning about web development and Cypress. What is your favorite Cypress feature? My favorite feature in cypress is the test runner and the

Read more

Announcing Cypress 12

Hello, testing fam! Yes, we know it's only been a hot minute since Cypress 11 was released, but the team has been cranking hard and wanted to get the latest bits into your hands as soon as possible. So, without further ado, I'm happy to announce Cypress 12 is now available with some great features I'm sure you will love! Cross-Origin is now Generally Available! One of the biggest feature requests in Cypress history is now available for all to use! Earlier this year, we released experimental c

Read more

Making cross-origin work: The Journey Behind cy.origin()

Soon Cypress 12 will be released, making cross-origin testing generally available to everyone! We are excited to bring you this feature, and we hope you are as excited about it as we are. Cross-origin testing has been in the works for a while, with multiple developers building it over the last year and releasing the initial experimental version in 9.6! Cross-origin testing allows you to seamlessly switch between multiple origins to test syndicated login services, integrated systems, and more.

Read more
Newer posts Older posts