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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
The European Accessibility act

Testing deployed GitLab pages using Cypress and GitLab CI

In this blog post we will deploy a static site to GitLab Pages, and then we will run end-to-end browser tests against the deployed site to make sure it is working as expected. The Cypress Test Runner makes it extremely simple to write full browser end-to-end (E2E) tests, while GitLab CI is a powerful platform for running such tests. The application Today's example is a static site built from a Markdown source file using VuePress [https://vuepress.vuejs.org/]. You can find the full source code

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Cypress and NeuraLegion: Leveraging your existing scripts for security testing automation

Learn how you can use Cypress, NeuraLegion’s HAR Generator, and NexPloit together to automate AppSec testing in your pipelines.

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Webcast Recording | How Cypress helped Ansible re-write their entire UI from scratch

Last week, Distinguished Engineer at Cypress, Gleb Bahmutov, and Senior Automation Engineer at Ansible, John Hill, presented a live webcast on how how Ansible revamped their testing efforts by deleting all of their old tests and starting from scratch with Cypress. Some of the key topics they covered include: * How the team implemented Cypress, and their initial testing strategy for their re-write * How their Cypress usage has evolved over the past two years—including how they run their entir

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Webcast Recording | How Pendo maintains a culture of quality with Cypress

Last week, Distinguished Engineer at Cypress, Gleb Bahmutov [https://twitter.com/bahmutov], and Senior Quality Engineer at Pendo [https://www.pendo.io/], George Palfreyman [https://twitter.com/georgepalf], presented a live webcast on why Pendo's quality engineers chose Cypress to rebuild their test suite and continue their commitment to quality. Some of the key topics they covered include: * Why the QE team switched to Cypress for testing * How they scaled Cypress within their organization (

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Live Webcast | How Cypress helped Ansible re-write their entire UI from scratch

Register Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform enables thousands of users to centralize and control IT infrastructure with a visual dashboard, role-based access control, job scheduling, integrated notifications, and graphical inventory management. Join us Thursday, April 15th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how Ansible's team completely re-wrote Ansible Automation Platform's complex UI, and how they relied on Cypress for testing confidently throughout their project. Your Webcast H

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Introducing the Cypress Component Test Runner– new in 7.0.0

We’re proud to announce the alpha release of Cypress’s dedicated Component Test Runner. It’s a brand new test runner that’s designed to replace your node-based component tests.

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Getting Started with Cypress Component Testing (Vue 2/3)

As of Cypress 7.0, the new Component Testing (CT) runner is now bundled with the Cypress. Learn how to configure Cypress Component Testing with Vue CLI and Vue 2/3.

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Getting Started with Cypress Component Testing (React)

As of Cypress 7.0, the new Component Test Runner is now bundled with Cypress! It builds on our learnings from the original component testing implementation, which was hidden behind the `experimentalComponentTesting` flag.

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Make Cypress Videos Look Old School

Recently, we introduced a trial feature called experimentalRunEvents [https://on.cypress.io/experimental] that simplifies running Node code before or after executing a spec file. Inside your plugin file [https://on.cypress.io/writing-and-organizing-tests#Plugin-files] you can add event hooks to perform operations that need OS access. For example, you could: * initialize the database before all tests start running (on this machine) * scaffold the database depending on the spec about to execute

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