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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

How to Test an Application that Changes a CSS Variable

The App Let's take an application that has an element. When the user picks a new color, the application changes a CSS variable which controls the background color. In action, it looks like this: The application in action The HTML markup below has only the input color element. This is the body of th

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Leveling the playing field for a more inclusive developer experience

My second week at Cypress, our office hosted the February session of the Atlanta JavaScript meetup. This was a special presentation featuring two well-regarded speakers on software development—ThisDot Labs CEO Tracy Lee and Applitools Evangelist and Senior Architect Gil Tayar. 🔥🔥🔥 This was a wond

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Guest Post: Modern Web Testing with Cypress

This post was originally published by Marie Drake on her blog, mariedrake.com. Marie is a Cypress Ambassador, Principal Test Automation Engineer at News UK, and a tech blogger with a focus of educating Developers and QA Engineers on testing and test automation. The web has evolved. Finally, testing

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Testing Edge Data Cases with Network Stubbing and App Actions

Your application might be a layered cake of historical data. Often old records are missing pieces because at first the web application never asked for them, or never validated them. The current web application might be much stricter with its user inputs, never allowing incomplete data to be entered.

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Guest Post: Some UI testing problems and the Cypress way

Note: This post was originally published by Stefano Magni on dev.to. Stefano is a a passionate, remote front-end engineer, a Cypress Ambassador, and an instructor. He is currently working on a UI Testing Best Practices project on GitHub, and is sharing this post to gather direct feedback. Why is tes

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Webcast Recording | How PlanGrid (Autodesk) Achieved Consistency in Automation Across 20 Development Teams

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, Engineering Manager at Plangrid (Autodesk), Graeme Harvey, and Tech Lead at Plangrid (Autodesk), Brendan Drew, presented a live webcast on how the Automation Platform team runs over 900 Cypress tests daily to make sure PlanGrid’s mission-critical serv

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Working with iframes in Cypress

Cypress has a ... difficulty working with iframes. Mostly because all built-in cy DOM traversal commands do hard stop the moment they hit #document node inside the iframe. iframe when it sees a Cypress command (re-enactment) If your web application uses iframes, then working with elements in those i

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Introducing Firefox and Edge Support in Cypress 4.0

Today, we're excited to release the highly-anticipated support for Firefox and the new Microsoft Edge browsers in Cypress 4.0. Adding the capability to run Cypress tests in Firefox has been one of the most frequently requested features by the community. So our team has been working hard to provide t

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Live Webcast: How PlanGrid (Autodesk) Achieved Consistency in Automation Across 20 Development Teams

Register With over 1 million projects and 90,000 weekly active users, PlanGrid (Autodesk) is the first construction productivity software enabling contractors and owners in commercial, heavy civil, and other industries to work and collaborate from anywhere. The team runs over 900 Cypress tests daily

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