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The European Accessibility Act and Cypress Accessibility

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) takes effect in June 2025, introducing harmonized accessibility standards across all 27 EU member states. As this regulatory milestone approaches, companies need efficient ways to identify and address accessibility issues in their applications. This is top of mind for many Cypress Accessibility customers, and we are often asked just where test automation fits in, and can this sort of system make you compliant? The answer is that no test automation setup will Read more
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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Chathuranga Jayasinghe

Meet Chathuranga. One half of the dynamic duo that manage the Cypress Sri Lanka chapter [https://community.cypress.io/cypress-sri-lanka-community/], Chathuranga is driven to spread knowledge on automated testing to his local community. His current initiatives include moderating communities, developing content, and guest speaker opportunities. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Having the insights and getting the issues sorted out faster How do you currently help others that are

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New for Dashboard: Tests for Review

Today, we released a new user experience improvement for Cypress Dashboard that is designed to help you more efficiently identify tests that require your attention. The new “Tests for review” section of the Run Overview page consolidates previously disparate test results into a single view. By clicking the respective labels at the top of the new view, you can easily filter by failed, flaky, and changed test results. “Identifying and analyzing potentially problematic tests is critical to mainta

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Estefania Fdez

Meet Estefania. She brings over 10 years of automated testing experience to the Ambassador program! Her passion for supporting the Cypress community is reflected in her constant contributions through platforms such as Github, Discord, and Twitter. As a Cypress Ambassador, she strive to create gain insight from the Cypress team and share her experience with new users. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Share my knowledge and help others to use cypress! How do you currently help ot

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Carter Capocaccia

We first met Carter in an onboarding interview discussing his interest in the Ambassador program. What stood out most was his passion to educate Cypress users and provide support for technical problems.

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Jeetendra Gund

During his early days in the community discord channel, Jeetendra has always displayed an intense curiosity for the capabilities of Cypress.

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Cypress 10.3.0: Speed up testing workflows with improved visibility into your test results

We believe testing is the most important aspect of building reliable software and that development teams deserve a data-rich, all-encompassing platform. Towards that goal, we are excited to announce that we have added actionable test data from your runs in the Cypress Dashboard [https://docs.cypress.io/guides/dashboard/introduction] directly into the Cypress app. As the Cypress app runs tests, it records its comprehensive result data to the Cypress Dashboard. The Dashboard derives insights to m

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Marko Kolasinac

Meet Marko, With such great success as a user, Marko has created a business model around his knowledge and passion with Cypress, which has flourished into AssertQA [https://www.linkedin.com/company/assertqa/]. Advocating for Cypress within his company internally helps new members adopt a tool that is guaranteed to improve their workflow and overall developer experience. What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Our business is tied with Cypress so more engagement with Cypress community a

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Cypress 10.2.0: Run tests up to 2x faster on Apple silicon (M1)

Over the last couple of years, Apple has begun transitioning processors in Mac computers from Intel to Apple silicon [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211814] , including the M1 and the recently announced M2 processor families. Previously, if you were using one of the newer M1 Apple devices, you had to run Cypress using Intel emulation with Rosetta 2, Apple's translation layer. We want you to have the best performance, speed, and reliability possible if you're running Cypress tests on Apple d

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Lasitha Wijenayake

He has worked above and beyond to provide the Cypress community with support around new features and questions. As a Cypress Ambassador, Lasitha has developed a facebook community for members located in Sri Lanka and India.

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