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Add your missing tests faster, with Test Generation in UI Coverage

Today we are proud to launch AI-powered Test Generation in Cypress Cloud, to help you quickly add tests for the untested elements detected in UI Coverage reports, in a way that follows your existing practices and conventions. Test generation in UI Coverage is the first of a set of AI-powered test generation tools that Cypress will release this year, and it works in just three steps: 1. Select an interactive element in your UI Coverage report, from any state of your application 2. Click “Gene Read more
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Using Nrwl Nx to Add Cypress to Your Angular Development Workflow

This is a guest post from Benjamin Cabanes, an Angular Engineer at the Angular consulting firm Nrwl (Narwhal Technologies Inc.) in Toronto. As an active contributor to Nrwl’s Nx open source project, Ben also works with Nrwl’s American enterprise clients in the Telecom and Financial Services space. Ben regularly blogs about best practices when building Angular applications at scale. One of our goals at Nrwl.io is to modernize the enterprise. That’s why we built Nrwl Nx–a set of extension

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Happy 2019 from Cypress!

As our team gets a running start to the new year, we think reflecting on how far Cypress.io has come in 2018 serves as the perfect conduit to determining our goals for 2019. We reached some truly unprecedented achievements, and we could not have done it without our outstanding Cypress community. Below are some of the highlights of 2018, as well as what we plan to accomplish in the year ahead. 2018: A Year of Growth This past June brought the acquisition of our CEO, Drew Lanham, as well as

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Application Actions: Use Them Instead of Page Objects

Hello, reader. This article was an opinion piece about why app actions are better than page objects. The page object pattern is well known in the QA community, and widely and successfully used in the Cypress ecosystem. Writing maintainable end-to-end tests is challenging. Often testers create another layer of indirection on top of the web page called page objects to execute common actions. In this post I argue that page objects are a bad practice, and suggest dispatching actions directly to the

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Element Coverage

Our users are periodically asking us to instrument application code and save code coverage information after Cypress runs end-to-end tests. In this blog I will argue that code coverage is less than useful for end-to-end tests. Then I will show element coverage that might be a better metric. > Experimental feature This document shows a very early proof of concept. The API and features shown here are likely to change. Use at your own risk. How do you know that you have written enough tests? Ho

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Devoxx Belgium 2018 & Xebia Meetup

November was another great month here at Cypress as the team spread out across multiple conferences to talk about end-to-end testing. I had the pleasure of giving a conference talk and a workshop at Devoxx Belgium. In between the hustle and bustle of Devoxx, I made a visit to the Xebia headquarters for a Cypress meetup. Devoxx Belgium Conference I arrived in Antwerp, Belgium the night before the start of the conference on November 12th. This was my first visit to Belgium, and I must s

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Meet our Lead Product Designer: Jeff Tucker

Hi, I’m Jeff 👋 I’m a designer and developer, and I’ve just joined Cypress as Lead Product Designer. I’ve held a fairly wide assortment of roles before this – UX designer, frontend developer, backend developer, and data analyst. Let’s take a look at how I’m using these skills to help build Cypress. Parallelism calculator Cypress rolled out test parallelization support [https://www.cypress.io/blog/2018/09/05/run-end-to-end-tests-on-ci-faster/] just a few months ago. We’ve talked a good bit about

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Testing Redux Store

Cypress tests usually operate via public browser APIs like DOM, network, or storage. But the tests can just as easily reach into the application and check if the internal state is updated correctly. In this blog post I will show you how to run assertions against a React application that uses a Redux store. This blog post assumes you’ve already installed Cypress, and you can find the source code in cypress-example-recipes#testing-redux-store. First test I have copied the offic

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ReactiveConf 2018

October 2018 was a great month for Cypress - we went out of Beta with our SaaS services, did a ton of work on the test runner and released v3.1.1, and I did ReactiveConf Roadshow and Conference tour. This blog post summarizes what I have done during the conference. If you could not attend the ReactiveConf 2018, you can still catch up with Cypress by reading. Meetups We have driven around Czech Republic with Matej Stratený and conducted 3 meetups dedicated to web application testing usin

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Cypress Case Study: Quizlet

With more than 30 million active users every month, Quizlet is now the world’s largest student and teacher online learning community. It’s used by one in two high school students and one in three college students, so keeping their application up and running smoothly is a top priority. In this case study, we’ll dig into why and how Quizlet now trusts Cypress as their primary end-to-end testing framework. The Problem Quizlet was using Capybara, which is a Ruby layer on Selenium for E2E test

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