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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
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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Guest Post: I did a Cypress workshop and this is what I learned

Note: This post was originally published by Filip Hric on Medium. Filip is a QA lead at Slido, a lifelong IT enthusiast with a background in psychology, and a Cypress ambassador. I had a chance to do a Cypress workshop at this year’s TestCrunch in Brno. It was an amazing experience. I knew I loved t

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Use meaningful smoke tests

Let's say you cover your application with end-to-end tests. You achieve the elusive 100% code coverage using the Cypress code coverage plugin. Is this enough to guarantee a good user experience? Maybe, but I'm not so sure. Another question to consider is: as Cypress.io prepares to release its cross-

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Guest Post: Writing E2E Tests Without Breaking Your Development Flow

Note: This post was written by Benjie Gillam, maintainer of the popular OSS project PostGraphile. He specializes in building tools for GraphQL, Node.js, and PostgreSQL developers. Getting started with a fullstack JavaScript project these days is exciting, but often overwhelming. There's so much tool

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

Register Siemens is commonly known as a global powerhouse in the world of digital infrastructure. With a vast catalog of solutions recognized for their ingenuity and simplicity, the company's SaaS services are also expected to follow these principles. When the Siemens SW Hub Cloud team began working

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Drastically Simplify Testing on CI with Cypress GitHub Action

Setting up continuous integration server is ... no one's favorite activity. Copying and pasting config YAML or JSON files, pushing code, waiting for the server to reject your commit due to wrong indentation or a missing comma - it is a very frustrating experience, we get it. This is why we are so ex

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Self-testing JAM pages

JAM Stack has become a popular way to build websites - you can write your pages using Markdown (the M in JAM), build using JavaScript tools that fetch data from APIs and get mostly static sites that are very fast. In this blog post I will show how each Markdown page can also include its own end-to-e

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