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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

How Cypress Helped Modernize Testing at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency

This is a guest post from Ambassador Frits Van Der Sloot Hi, I'm Frits. I’ve been in software testing for over 10 years and became a Cypress Ambassador in February 2025. I’m passionate about making complex things simple and helping teams build better, faster tests. I’ve worked on everything from testing 2,000 websites with one codebase to coaching manual testers into automation pros. I enjoy refactoring legacy tests, scaling testing teams, and integrating Cypress into CI/CD workflows. My focus

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Detect hidden violations using your existing tests

New: Find hidden accessibility issues with Cypress Accessibility

We are delighted to announce the first internally-developed accessibility check in Cypress Accessibility, with a new rule called “Interactive elements should be semantically correct”. This rule has already surfaced hundreds of previously-hidden accessibility issues across an early-preview set of Cypress Accessibility customers – issues that were not revealed by existing automated scans.  Today, it’s rolling out for every Cypress Accessibility project in Cypress Cloud! Look out for the "Cypress

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Frequently asked questions for cy.prompt

cy.prompt frequently asked questions

cy.prompt() is now available to everyone. For full details on how cy.prompt() works and how to enable it, check out our docs. We’ve received a ton of excitement (and a bunch of questions) about cy.prompt, so we wanted to take a moment to share some answers and give a quick update on where things stand. If you haven’t already, check out Brian Mann’s full demo - it answers many of the early questions we’ve seen. So, let’s dive in. What's the difference between cy.prompt and an MCP server? Cy

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Kevin Ramirez

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Cypress is my favorite testing tool and Im excited to learn more about testing, engage with the community, and share my knowledge! How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? At my company, we've adopted Cypress, and it's now widely used across many teams. One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job is helping others with their Cypress tests—whether it's troubleshooting issues, optimizing test st

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Paul Astorga

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? When I first started as a QA engineer, I was intimidated by automation. I didn’t feel confident and the complexity of existing frameworks made it even harder. However, after starting with Cypress, my confidence grew significantly. Now, I’m eager to share my knowledge and help other QAs transition into automation. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I encourage people to learn Cypress beca

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Frontend Nation conference banner featuring Brian Mann, Founder of Cypress.io

Automating Tests with Natural Language: Highlights from Frontend Nation 2025

cy.prompt() is now available to everyone. For full details on how cy.prompt() works and how to enable it, check out our docs. At Frontend Nation 2025, Cypress founder Brian Mann took the stage to explore the future of end-to-end testing using natural language. His talk, “Lessons from the AI Battlefield,” cut through the hype and showed what it actually takes to automate browsers with plain English and how Cypress is doing it differently. Update: The recording of Brian Mann's Frontend Nation ta

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Chijioke John Njoku

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I am driven to become a Cypress Ambassador because of my strong passion for test automation and the transformative impact Cypress has on software quality. As a QA Engineer, I have witnessed how Cypress simplifies testing, enhances developer efficiency, and accelerates feedback loops. I enjoy mentoring others, sharing insights, and helping teams implement best practices in test automation. This role would allow me to contribute more to the community

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Animation showing the process of choosing and element and generating test coverage for it

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

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UI Coverage interface showing tested and untested elements in list form on the left had side, represented visually on the right hand side.

Making the Most of UI Coverage

UI Coverage quantifies how well your Cypress tests exercise your application by mapping interactive elements to those actually tested. The resulting insights expose gaps in critical user flows and can power quality gates that can be enforced in CI through our Results API. As a Technical Account Manager with extensive hands-on experience with configuring UI Coverage for users and in close collaboration with the product team, I’ve gathered some best practices for configuring UI Coverage to yield s

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