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Cypress Accessibility - 2024 roundup

In the last year, Cypress Accessibility has grown from its earliest beta form into a mature product with multiple facets and features, supporting many different use cases and scenarios. All of these are possible, or made better, because Cypress Accessibility runs with no test code updates, no plugins, and no performance impact during test runs. This approach, based on testing against the artifacts you already upload to Cypress Cloud in a standard test run, is also what allows us to surface prop Read more
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Insights from CypressConf 2024: Shifting to the Future

CypressConf 2024 delivered on its promise to inspire and empower the testing community. Packed with exciting product announcements, insightful sessions, and actionable strategies, the two-day virtual event explored what’s next for software testing and how Cypress continues to lead the way. Here’s a look at the key highlights and takeaways from this year’s event. Announcements: UI Coverage and Cypress Accessibility During the Founder session, Brian Mann, Founder of Cypress.io, and Peter Stakou

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Code Coverage Isn’t Enough: How UI Coverage Completes the Picture

Measuring Coverage Is Hard; We Made It Better Trying to understand how much of your application is tested can be an exercise in frustration—you're stuck relying on numbers that are hard to interpret, methods that don’t reflect real user activity, and reports that are a nightmare to collaborate on. But what if it didn't have to be this way? What if coverage could be actionable, intuitive, and reflective of what really matters—the user experience? That's why we built UI Coverage. Let's break dow

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Open Source Accessibility Plugins in Cypress

This post is part of a series! Check out parts one and two: 1. Hands-on with Cypress Accessibility 2. Improving Accessibility in Legacy Applications This week we’ve been blogging about the topic of accessibility, since the recent GA launch of our commercial accessibility testing solution built into Cypress Cloud. This overall blog series is a chance to share what we’ve been working on and what we’ve learned with our customers, as well as a great chance to write more about accessibility as a

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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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Hands-on with Cypress Accessibility

This week we begin a series of blog posts about accessibility and Cypress. In upcoming posts we’ll discuss open-source accessibility plugins for the Cypress App, patterns of adopting accessibility testing that we have seen be successful in working with customers, how automation fits into an overall accessibility strategy, and more. In today’s post, we’ll share examples from our new Cloud product, Cypress Accessibility – recently launched at CypressConf 2024 after a long early access period. You

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Announcing the General Availability of UI Coverage

At CypressConf 2024, we announced that UI Coverage is now generally available. After an incredibly successful early access period, during which we partnered with forward-thinking teams to refine this innovative product, UI Coverage is ready to transform the way you approach test coverage. UI Coverage provides clear insights and actionable data to help your team improve test coverage, quality, and efficiency: * Visualize Coverage: Get a clear, visual overview of which parts of your application

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UI Coverage and Cypress Accessibility are now GA!

Today, on the first day of CypressConf 2024, we are delighted to announce that both Cypress Accessibility and UI Coverage have reached general availability 🎉. Whether keeping an eye on your test coverage, or detecting regressions that would prevent people with disabilities using your product, Cypress Cloud has more ways than ever to supercharge your test pipeline.  Learn about the details below, and request a trial in Cypress Cloud with your own projects. When your trial begins, you’ll receiv

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Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Viola Lykova

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Cypress is a great tool for Software Engineers like myself, who test and validate the code to save the budget on development and bring clarity to the code. It's simple to use, rich in features, great for cross-platform testing, has a cloud to have all in one place, and it has optimized replays. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I encourage all developers to use Cypress for its vast comm

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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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