--- title: "cy.blog()" url: "https://www.cypress.io/blog/page/19" description: "Page 19: Releases, AI-assisted testing, and quality guides from the Cypress team. See what changed, whether it affects you, and how teams ship with confidence." --- # cy.blog() Releases, AI-assisted testing, and quality guides from the Cypress team. See what changed, whether it affects you, and how teams ship with confidence. [Meet cypress tap: give your AI agent the context the Cypress app shows you Cypress AIcypress 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](/blog/cypress-tap-cli) [All](/blog)[Releases](/blog/category/Releases) [Community](/blog/category/Community) [Education](/blog/category/Education) [Customer Stories]() [Company](/blog/category/Company) [Webinar: Speed Up Your E2E Testing with Ephemeral Preview Environments End-to-end testing is one of the most important tools in your tool belt. Depending on your current environment set up, there are known problems that teams run into with e2e testing, which can make it slower than it should be. Several factors contribute to this: * Fragile or flaky tests * Testing too late in your pipeline or CI/CD * Lack of available test environments (literally waiting for the environment to free up) * Database with seed data isn’t set up correctly or gets corrupted * Fai Read more](/blog/webinar-preview-environments) [Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Kiran Chilakamarri What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I was motivated to be a part of a growing community. I wanted to be able to experiment with new features and connect with wider cypress experts. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? Support to unpack all the great things cypress has to offer to fellow testers through chat and community events. What is your favorite Cypress feature? 1. Cy.intercept() - how easy it makes intercept requests Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-kiran-chilakamarri) [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. One of the biggest challenges facing engineering and quality teams today is the sheer number of CI build processes, systems, and notifications that can easily go unnoticed. Our new integration with Mic Read more](/blog/introducing-a-new-cypress-cloud-integration-for-microsoft-teams) [Webinar Recap: Best practices for testing in CI/CD with Cypress Cloud Recently, we hosted a webinar featuring Ely Lucas, Developer Experience Engineer, and Shawn Harris, Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer. They shared valuable insights and best practices for constructing a test automation strategy, configuring and setting up tests, and seamlessly integrating them into your CI/CD pipeline. If you missed the live event, don't worry! You can watch the recorded webinar here: We received an overwhelming number of questions during the webinar, and unfortunately, we coul Read more](/blog/best-practices-ci-cd-with-cypress-cloud) [Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Alex Niculae What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? Having access to discuss with the product and development teams of Cypress is a rare gem. This, and being an active part of a community that I appreciate and value, which helps the software QA world be better, more standardized and stable. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? As a Company Ambassador, I onboard new joiners in the world of Cypress, make sure that we follow best practices int Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-alex-niculae) [Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Bartosz Ciach What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I joined the program as one of the first members in the world, which I am very proud of. Being a part of the community that gathers people engaged, at least to a small extent, in the development of the testing technology which is so amazing and friendly to testers and developers is something which motivates me a lot. I started using Cypress in 2016. Back then, as a developer with not that much seniority, I was looking for a solution to write tests Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-barttosz-ciach) [The NEW CircleCI Cypress Orb As you embark on your journey writing automated tests, it’s likely that you’ll need to run them in a CI/CD environment. Configuring these systems can be cumbersome and unfamiliar to application developers. Luckily, Cypress is compatible with all Continuous Integration (CI) providers and systems! 🎉 But how can we help make this journey smoother and less complex? Cypress partnered with CircleCI in 2018 to provide the Cypress Orb. Since then, Cypress has grown and matured, as has the tooling arou Read more](/blog/new-circleci-cypress-orb) [Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Xavier Viuda What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? I was motivated to have interactions with engineers across the world and trying to solve the issues they have with Cypress. How do you currently help others that are either using Cypress or interested in using Cypress? I host a Dutch meetup group and write blog posts but I'm the most active on the Cypress Discord channel to answer questions. What is your favorite Cypress feature? It's the feature that made me want to use Cypress and that is the Read more](/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-xavier-viuda) [Make Sure You Do This Before Switching To Signals in App Development Testing This blog post was originally published on dev.to. This time last year Standalone Component's were the talk of the Angular town. This year signals have replaced that buzz throughout the Angular Ecosystem. Though it will take some time for the introduction of signals into Angular's ecosystem to take hold, it is important for us to begin thinking about how these changes may or may not affect our applications. In fact, I am proposing one thing that everyone should do before switching to signals. B Read more](/blog/switching-to-signals-angular) [Newer posts](/blog/page/18) [Older posts](/blog/page/20)