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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

Introducing Drew Lanham

When is the right time to bring in a CEO? This “Founder’s Dilemma” is something I’ve been considering for some time. After leading product development for Cypress and steering the company through two rounds of funding, eventually I realized trying to split my time between CEO and development duties

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Sliding Down the Testing Pyramid

A good end-to-end test runner, like Cypress, can be very effective at performing integration tests and even at running unit tests. In this blog post I will show how to write view component tests for a Hyperapp application and how to unit test individual functions. The same approach can work for comp

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Angular + Cypress = Love

This is a guest post from Jeff Whelpley, CTO at Swish, Google Developer Expert, co-creator of Angular Universal (server rendering for Angular 2+), co-organizer of Boston Angular Meetup, co-organizer of Boston AI Meetup, guest/panelist on AngularAir and Adventures in Angular podcasts, and frequent sp

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Cypress is heading to Assert(js)

The Cypress team is super excited to be heading to San Antonio on February 22 for the Assert(js) conference. The Assert(js) Testing Conference is a one-day, single-track conference focused on helping JavaScript developers better understand and share best practices with JavaScript testing tools. Soun

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When Can The Test Start?

Can the test runner be too quick? Can the tests start before the application is ready to handle the test steps? It definitely can happen. This blog post shows a little trick one can use to detect when a web application really starts, so that the test runner never has to wait longer than necessary. A

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End-to-End Snapshot Testing

Snapshot testing has taken the JavaScript unit testing world by storm. It removes much of the manual coding and much of the boilerplate, leaving the test runner to save or compare produced values. This blog post shows how the Cypress Test Runner can bring the same power to your end-to-end tests. Ex

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An Alternative to Protractor for Angular Projects

Fans of Angular CLI get Protractor end-to-end tests generated with each scaffolded project. In this blog post I will show how to add Cypress E2E tests instead with minimum effort (and TypeScript support)! Scaffolding a project Scaffolding an Angular project using ng new is a huge time saver. Just 4

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Testing apps hosted on Codepen.io

Lots of people love to quickly throw web applications on Codepen.io. Who can refuse a quick and powerful way to start writing code immediately; sharing results is almost instant. In this blog post I will show how to write end-to-end tests for web apps embedded in a Codepen. Warning: no longer workin

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Testing Vue web applications with Vuex data store & REST backend

In this blog post we will test a typical web application that uses a central data store to manage state. The data store communicates with the backend that stores the data long term. You can find patterns in React + Redux applications, Angular + MobX and countless other combinations. This example loo

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