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Submit Your Proposal for CypressConf 2024 by April 17th

Welcome, test automation leaders, to CypressConf 2024!  As we gear up for another year of pushing the boundaries in test automation, we're calling upon you to share your groundbreaking ideas, revolutionary approaches, and latest advancements in the field. Join us in shaping the future of test automation by submitting your Call for Proposals (CFP) for CypressConf 2024! Why Submit a CFP? * Share Your Expertise: Do you have firsthand experience implementing test automation solutions? Share your Read more

Exciting News: Cypress Cloud Plan User Limits Increased to 50! 🎉

At Cypress, we understand that the key to successful software development is equipping developers with the tools and resources they need. As we focus more on redefining pre-production app quality and supporting test-forward culture, it’s never been more important to enable our Cypress Cloud users to

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Configure retry thresholds with our new experimental feature

In the dynamic world of software testing, the importance of ensuring the reliability of your end-to-end (E2E) tests cannot be overstated. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a new experiment allowing you to configure thresholds for test retries! Context: What’s a retry? End-to-end (E2E) tests are

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New for Cypress Cloud: Enhance PR Review Efficiency with Branch Review

Cypress Cloud users can now analyze changes to their test suite using a before-and-after view of changes made by each pull request, so they can swiftly pinpoint the differences, streamline review cycles, and prevent regressions. We're excited to introduce Branch Review, Cypress Cloud's latest featur

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Announcing Cypress 13 with Test Replay!

Today we are thrilled to announce the release of Cypress 13, packed with new features to enhance how you debug and diagnose test failures. The highlight of this release is the introduction of Test Replay. This feature allows you to interact with previous tests as they occurred during Continuous Inte

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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 availa

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New for Cypress Cloud: Microsoft Teams integration

We know that quality and engineering teams need visibility into their CI builds to catch issues early on. That's why we're excited to announce our new beta integration with Microsoft Teams, which makes it easier than ever to view Cypress test results in real-time, directly in your Teams channels. On

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New for 12.9: Debug Page Run Navigation

With the release of Cypress 12.9, we’re improving our new Debug page by allowing users to navigate between test runs, which will be surfaced and persisted. The Debug page was designed to enhance the CI debugging experience, allowing users to view, investigate, and rerun failed tests recorded to the

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New for 12.7: Component Framework Definition API

Cypress Component Testing Integration Framework Definition API

Cypress prides itself on providing a first-class experience for Component Testing. Part of this experience is our onboarding process that automatically detects the library and framework used in a project, and scaffolds the relevant files and configuration. Starting with Cypress 12.7, we are exposing

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Cypress Cloud: Auto Cancellation is now available via CLI

With today’s release of Cypress 12.6, Cypress Cloud users can configure Auto Cancellation via CLI and Node Module API, offering new opportunities to shorten feedback loops and protect valuable CI and human resources. If you are a Cypress Cloud Business and Enterprise customer, you can now use CLI to

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New for Cypress Cloud: Run duration analytics, recommendations, and configurable Auto Cancellation

Today, we're excited to announce the release of a new update to Cypress Cloud with all new test run analytics and actionable recommendations for how to optimize your test suite’s performance in CI. Run duration analytics Now available on the Run Overview page is a new trends visualization that displ

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Cypress 10.8: Experimental: Run tests in WebKit

We are excited to bring you an update on one of our most popular user requests: Cypress support for testing in Safari! Apple’s Safari browser accounts for almost 20% of worldwide internet usage. In 10.8.0, Cypress users can test their web applications using WebKit, the same browser engine used in Sa

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Cypress 10.3.0: Speed up testing workflows with improved visibility into your test results

We believe testing is the most important aspect of building reliable software and that development teams deserve a data-rich, all-encompassing platform. Towards that goal, we are excited to announce that we have added actionable test data from your runs in the Cypress Dashboard directly into the Cyp

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Cypress 10.2.0: Run tests up to 2x faster on Apple silicon (M1)

Over the last couple of years, Apple has begun transitioning processors in Mac computers from Intel to Apple silicon, including the M1 and the recently announced M2 processor families. Previously, if you were using one of the newer M1 Apple devices, you had to run Cypress using Intel emulation with

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Announcing Cypress 10 with Component Testing Beta!

Hello, friends! Today, we have an exciting announcement to share. The title up above might have given it away, but in case you missed it, Cypress 10 is here 🎉! Cypress 10 is our most exciting release yet, and we have a lot to unpack, so let's dive in and look at some of the new functionality. New C

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An Update on Cypress Studio

*Update 8/30/2022: We have reintroduced the experimental Cypress Studio feature in 10.7. For more details, read our blog post. This update at a glance: Cypress 10.0 will soon be released and it will include several new features, like first-class support for Component Testing Cypress Studio, the expe

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New for Dashboard: Branches Summary Page

In case you missed it, in another recent release, we rolled out an update to the Projects page to give you a quicker path to your projects' most recently updated branches. If you haven't noticed yet, give it a look. Today, we're here to share another Cypress Dashboard feature that is aimed at surfac

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Easily Perform Multi-Domain Testing with cy.origin

With the cy.origin() command, (added in Cypress 9.6.0), you can easily switch between origins to seamlessly test syndicated authentication, cross-site CMS workflows, and much more. UPDATE: With Cypress 12, we brought cy.session() support out of experimental and into general availability status. Sess

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New for Dashboard: Enterprise Integrations for GitHub and GitLab

This release at a glance: Integrations with GitHub and GitLab Enterprise source control are now available in Cypress Dashboard Business and Enterprise plan customers can self-install the integrations from Dashboard's Integrations page The new integrations deliver test run feedback directly in on-pre

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New for Dashboard: New Projects Workflow, Enhanced Error Details, and a Small Delighter

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of new features designed to improve your experience of finding and debugging tests with Cypress Dashboard. In this release, all Cypress Dashboard users have access to new popular, community-requested features: Shortcuts to recently updated branches on the

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How to perform authentication testing with Cypress.

Authenticate Faster in Tests with the cy.session Command

Cypress helped you reduce the time it takes to log in before each of your tests with the introduction of the experimental cy.session() command with Cypress 8.2.0. To view the latest updates, including our fix for the issue with the cy.session command in Cypress 12.1.0, view our changelog. A Brief Re

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Our year at Cypress, and what’s next for our team

For the Cypress Team, 2020 was a year of unprecedented growth—we kicked off January with our cross-browser support launch, and ended the year with a $40M Series B round (not to mention all of the releases, updates, and accomplishments in between)! Here are some of the highlights of the past year at

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Introducing cy.intercept - Next Generation Network Stubbing in Cypress 6.0

Today, we're elevating the power and scope of Cypress' network handling capabilities with the introduction of the cy.intercept command in Cypress 6.0. One of the most powerful and beloved features of Cypress are easy network stubbing and spying APIs via cy.route and cy.server commands. These command

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Get rid of recurring errors in your test suite with new Error Analysis

As part of our ongoing mission to give our users unparalleled insight into their test suites, we’ve added an exciting new analytic to the Cypress Dashboard—Most Common Errors 🎉 The Most Common Errors analytic gives you a high level look at the most common failure modes across your test suite. Users

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