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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

Building a Product Team for Cypress

World-class organizations aren’t found, they’re made. The teams at companies like Shopify, Stripe, PagerDuty, and Twilio didn’t stumble their way into success. Each of them started from a foundation of a great product vision, market opportunity, and relentless focus on building solutions customers

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Meet the 2020 Cypress Ambassadors

Cypress Ambassadors are our community network of experts - sharing the benefits of testing with Cypress at events, conferences, meetups, and online. As 2020 begins, we want to take a moment to recognize them for their contributions and share how you can apply to be an Ambassador, too! Who Are the Cy

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Testing the Browser Notification API

How do you test native browser APIs like Notification? If you don't have a real modern browser during tests, it seems like a challenge. But Cypress controls an Electron or Chrome or (soon) Firefox browser, so your tests can access the real thing. This blog post shows typical tests for a tiny web app

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When Can The Test Stop?

Imagine a small web page application that shows a window Confirm popup when the user clicks a button. The HTML might look like this Assertion counting Click on the button, should show Window confirm dialog Click The application works. Window Confirm application We can write a test to confirm (pun

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How to load the React DevTools extension in Cypress

DevTools is invaluable for debugging an application, or understanding why an end-to-end test goes astray. During Cypress tests, you can click on any command to see additional information for that command, inspect DOM elements, and observe network calls. Many frameworks provide their own extensions t

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Guest Post: Software tests as a documentation tool

Note: This post was originally published by Stefano Magni on Medium. 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. Documentin

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Asserting network calls from cypress tests

Asserting Network Calls from Cypress Tests

The Cypress Test Runner can "see" everything happening inside the web application under test: DOM elements, cookies, local storage items, location, etc. The Test Runner can also spy on and stub network requests the application is making to its backend API or even to the 3rd party APIs. This blog pos

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Webcast Recording | How Siemens SW Hub increased their test productivity by 38% with Cypress

Last week, our VP of Engineering, Gleb Bahmutov, and Test Lead for Siemens SW Hub, Murat Ozcan, presented a live webcast on how the Siemens SW Hub Cloud team uses Cypress to run hundreds of tests across multiple platforms to ensure all systems are working correctly for their Smart Infrastructure clo

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Test Your Web App in Dark Mode

Recently, operating systems iOS13, Android 10, MacOS Catalina and Windows 10 have introduced Dark Mode support with most browsers supporting CSS prefers-color-scheme. On Mac, you can pick Light (default), Dark or Auto mode via System Preferences / General options. I believe the Apple UI designers ar

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