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Introducing UI Coverage

Learn how UI Coverage by Cypress enhances your testing strategy by providing visual insights into test coverage, identifying gaps, and optimizing your test suite. Read more

When Can the Test Submit a Form?

In this blog post we continue exploring flaky tests and how to fix them. We will look at the situation when a page submits a form and then continues to interact with the page, which causes a problem. Tip: you can find all existing similar posts under the tag Flake. You can find the source code for t

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Testing an Application in Offline Network Mode

Modern web applications need to continue working when a network is unavailable, or at least show users the current network status. In this blog post, I will show how Cypress can simulate an offline network status during a test. Note: the source code for this blog post can be found in the "Offline" r

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Live Webcast | Using Code Smells to Fix Flaky Tests in Cypress

Register The concept of code smells is a way to categorize problems in code for the purpose of fixing them—in turn, this concept can also make it easier to fix flaky tests. Join us on November 18th at 2PM EST/11AM PST to learn how to identify and fix Cypress code smells, and get rid of test flaky te

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Webcast Recording | How Userlane dramatically reduced flaky E2E tests with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, Tobias Muelller, Sr Software Engineer at Userlane, and Haydeé Muñoz De la Rocha, Sr Frontend Engineer at Userlane, presented a live webcast on how Userlane used Cypress to transform their automated E2E testing to increase stability, improve performanc

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Introducing Flaky Test Detection & Alerts

Practically everyone that has dealt with testing web applications has been confronted with flaky tests. These are the tests that can fail, but pass once retried and without any code changes. It's one of the most challenging obstacles with testing, and tremendous engineering effort can be invested (a

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Live Webcast | How Userlane dramatically reduced flaky E2E tests with Cypress

Register Userlane's interactive, step-by-step guides help users instantly use any software without formal training. Find out how the team uses Cypress to increase stability, improve performance, and ensure quality for their CI/CD process while maintaining developer happiness. Tune in on October 28th

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Get rid of recurring errors in your test suite with new Error Analysis

As part of our ongoing mission to give our users unparalleled insight into their test suites, we’ve added an exciting new analytic to the Cypress Dashboard—Most Common Errors 🎉 The Most Common Errors analytic gives you a high level look at the most common failure modes across your test suite. Users

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Debug a Flaky Visual Regression Test

In our Cypress RealWorld App we are using visual regression testing to catch unintended style and layout changes. We are using the Percy.io service, and you can see the screenshots at https://percy.io/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app. During tests, we periodically take image snapshots using cy.percy

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Guest Post: Retrying your tests is actually a good thing (If your approach is right)

Note: This post was written by Filip Hric. Filip is a QA lead at Slido, a lifelong IT enthusiast with a background in psychology, and a Cypress ambassador. Cypress recently released version 5.0.0 of their open source test runner. The release introduced native support for test retries (off by default

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