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Improving Accessibility in Legacy Applications

Over the years, accessibility is something that I’ve come to see as foundational to front-end application quality. Not optional, not an afterthought, not a debate. As the product manager for Cypress Accessibility, I’ve been able to talk to hundreds of people about how they and their companies manage accessibility in their approach to development and quality. One thing is clear: lots of us are working in less than ideal conditions when it comes to making applications usable for people with disabi

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Elevate Your Cypress Testing: Top 10 Essential Plugins

Discover how to maximize the potential of Cypress with these top 10 essential plugins.

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Debugging with Cypress vs. Playwright

Explore how Cypress's advanced debugging features, including time travel and Test Replay, provide a superior experience compared to Playwright, streamlining the process of diagnosing and resolving test issues.

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Cypress in Action: Fitting Testing into Your Software Development Practices

Testing in the software development cycle is a critical phase that ensures the final product is reliable, functional, and meets user expectations. By identifying and fixing bugs early, testing prevents them from snowballing into larger, more complex issues, ultimately saving time and resources. Thorough testing significantly improves software quality, ensuring it functions as intended, meets requirements, and delivers a positive user experience, leading to higher customer satisfaction and a bett

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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.

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Understanding Selectors in Frontend Development and Cypress Testing

This blog delves into the intricacies of selectors, the challenges of traversing the DOM, and the importance of selector stability, with a special focus on the Cypress frontend testing framework.

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Crafting a Robust Testing Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Scale Your Testing Efforts

This comprehensive guide provides a roadmap for scaling your testing efforts and navigating the challenges of modern software development.

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Webinar Recap: Using Cypress and GitHub Actions to Build an Automation Pipeline

This week we were joined by Carter Capocaccia, Senior Engineering Manager of Quality Automation at Hilton, for an illuminating webinar where the he demystified the intricacies of setting up CICD workflows and integrating quality automation, using GitHub Actions, Cypress, and Vercel. Here are the top five takeaways from that insightful session: 1. Understanding CI/CD: The Foundation of Quality Automation Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) form the backbone of efficient de

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Cypress Accessibility

Introducing Cypress Accessibility

Updated March 2025. Looking for a free trial? Sign up here. Introduction We built Cypress Accessibility to help teams measure and improve the accessibility of their applications by adding highly effective, zero-effort accessibility checks to the Cypress Cloud platform. To do this, we automatically generate rich, interactive accessibility reports based entirely on existing tests being recorded to Cypress Cloud. This requires no setup or configuration, so it can be adopted instantly at any time

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Webinar Recap: Introducing The New Era of Debugging

Recently, we were joined by Cypress Ambassadors and Brian Mann, the visionary founder behind Cypress, to discuss an exciting new feature released in Cypress 13: Test Replay! In this article, we’ve summarized the key takeaways from the webinar. If you’re curious for more, the full recording is available on YouTube. Last week, we announced the release of Test Replay in Cypress Cloud. This feature allows you to interact with previous tests as they occurred during Continuous Integration (CI), elimi

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Move Your Protractor Tests to Cypress Faster with the Cypress Migrator

We’ve created an educational tool to help you visualize and learn the differences between Protractor and Cypress APIs to move your tests over more rapidly: the Cypress Migrator! The tool is a hands-on playground where you can easily paste in code snippets from Protractor to see what they look like in Cypress. It is worth noting that since there are major differences in the way Protractor code and Cypress code are written, it’s not intended, at this time, to be a tool that would transform entire

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