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Releases, AI-assisted testing, and quality guides from the Cypress team. See what changed, whether it affects you, and how teams ship with confidence.

Meet cypress tap: give your AI agent the context the Cypress app shows you

cypress tap is a new set of CLI command to pull Cypress app context into your terminal. It lets AI agent drive a Cypress open session from the terminal, so it can author new tests, extend existing ones, and read failures the way the Cypress app shows them.Read more

Webcast Recording | Flaky Test Management with Cypress

Last week, Cecelia Martinez, Technical Account Manager at Cypress, and Mike Cataldo, DX Engineer at Cypress, presented a live webcast on how to find and manage flaky tests in your test suite. Some of the key topics they covered include: * The common causes of test flakiness, including DOM-related, network-related, and environment-related flake * Best practices for writing flake-resistant tests * How to manage flakiness in your test suite with Cypress features like test retries, flaky test i

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Full Testing of HTML Emails using SendGrid and Ethereal Accounts

Imagine you are sending beautiful HTML emails using your own SMTP server or even a 3rd party service like SendGrid. What if the emails are formatted incorrectly? What if the template string is incorrect and the user sees Dear <<undefined>>? Can you test the emails to make sure they really work? In this blog post I will describe the full cycle email testing. We will send actual emails using 3rd party service SendGrid [https://sendgrid.com/] and we will fetch that email from a temporary email acc

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Cypress + Storybook 2.0

When building a design system, we like to see components rendered in isolation. What better tool to do that than Storybook? We can see our components, wrap them in decorators, and show our stakeholders beautiful user story demos. Once we know how our components should look, we want to test them. For that part, I love to use Cypress component testing [https://docs.cypress.io/guides/component-testing/introduction#What-is-Component-Testing] . How great would it be if we could just re-use the stori

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Testing HTML Emails using Cypress

In this blog post, we will use a local SMTP server to receive emails sent by the app to the user. We will test the HTML emails to make sure they look and work correctly. Note: you can find the source code shown in this blog post at cypress-email-example [https://github.com/bahmutov/cypress-email-example] [https://github.com/bahmutov/cypress-email-example] and watch a video explaining the testing process here [https://youtu.be/16WTH7XeIVw]. Sending emails If you want to send an email from a No

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Live Webcast | Flaky Test Management with Cypress

Register Tired of battling flaky tests? Join us Wednesday, May 19th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how to focus your efforts with test-writing best practices, how to understand different types of flake, and the many ways in which Cypress can help you eliminate flake for good. Your Webcast Hosts In this webcast, we'll define flake and the many ways that it can impact your tests. Next, you'll learn: * The common causes of test flakiness, including DOM-related, network-related,

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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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