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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

Extending the Cypress Config File

Many tools allow one config file to extend another one. For example, ESLint allows one to apply recommended settings and then add several more rules: { "plugins": [ "react" ], "extends": [ "eslint:recommended", "plugin:react/recommended" ], "rules": { "react/no-set-state": "off" } } Similarly, the

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Introducing the Cypress Real World App

We recently open-sourced the Cypress Real World App (RWA) project on GitHub. The RWA is an example payment application for demonstrating real-world usage of Cypress testing methods, patterns, practices, and workflows. You can use this app to learn, experiment, tinker, and practice application testin

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Introducing the Cypress Integration for Slack

Boasting 12MM daily users spending an average of 90 minutes in-app, Slack has established itself as an essential communication tool—especially among developers who depend on it for daily collaboration. Today, we’re excited to announce the Cypress integration for Slack: a high-quality Slack App that

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Live Webcast | How Optimizely Tests Features and Feature Flags 300% Faster with Cypress

Register Optimizely’s Progressive Delivery & Experimentation platform helps companies deliver better software, products, and growth. In our upcoming webcast, find out how the team uses Cypress to ensure quality across multiple platforms and third party integrations. Join us on Wednesday, June 10th a

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Webcast Recording | Keep your UI Sharp: Ensuring Functional and Visual Quality with Cypress.io + Happo.io

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, and Happo.io Founder, Henric Trotzig, presented a live webcast on how to add visual regression testing with Happo to your Cypress.io test suite, to ensure functional and visual quality with your UI. Some of the key topics they covered include: The bas

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Where Does the Test Spend Its Time?

No one likes slow tests. But before we can make a test faster, we need to understand where the test actually spends its time. In this blog post I will show how to report the total test duration and time per individual Cypress command. Note: you can find the test source code shown in this blog post i

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Debugging Best Practices: Speeding up the Process with Test Error Code Frames

Starting with the inclusion of test error code frames in Cypress 4.6 in 2020, we have continued to improve Cypress’ ability to help developers with the debugging process. We’d be remiss if we built a testing framework and then didn’t do anything to help you with the issues it catches. Here are a few

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Webcast Recording | Shipping with Confidence: How DHL reduced test execution time by 50%

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, and DHL Software Engineer, Rick Fleuren, presented a live webcast on how the DHL team uses Cypress in combination with Docker and Jenkins to cut their test execution time in half. Some of the key topics they covered include: How the team accomplishes

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Live Webcast | Keep your UI Sharp: Ensuring Functional and Visual Quality with Cypress.io + Happo.io

Register Happo (Happo.io) is a cross-platform, cross-browser screenshot testing tool for modern user interfaces. By integrating Happo screenshots with your Cypress test suite, you can easily ensure both functional and visual quality in your applications. Join us on Wednesday, May 20th at 1pm EDT/10a

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