--- title: "cy.blog()" url: "https://www.cypress.io/blog/page/29" description: "Page 29: 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) [Webcast Recording | Faire + Cypress: Building an E2E Strategy that Scales Last week, Director of DX at Cypress, Amir Rustamzadeh, and Software Engineer at Faire, David Mamujee, presented a live webcast on how Faire scaled their E2E testing strategy with Cypress. Some of the key topics they covered include: * How Faire organizes their multi-repo setup for testing both their retailer and brand experience. * How the team manages flaky tests with methods like tagging tests and running their E2E tests against a local backend instance. * How the team uses Cypress E2E Read more](/blog/webcast-recording-faire-cypress) [Live Webcast | Faire + Cypress: Building an E2E Strategy that Scales Join us Wednesday, September 29th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how the team built their E2E testing setup from scratch using Cypress. Read more](/blog/live-webcast-faire-and-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 Refresher on Logging in When testing an application that requires authentication, it's common to create a cy.login() custom command or login helper function to log in to your app: Cypress.Commands. Read more](/blog/authenticate-faster-in-tests-cy-session-command) [Visual Testing for Emails Sent Using 3rd Party Dynamic Templates This blog post will teach you how to visually verify the emails sent by a 3rd party service. Such verification is necessary to ensure the emails have the expected style, and include the necessary information. The post teaches you how to deal with the difficult email markup generated from dynamic templates when doing image comparison. Note: you can find the source code for this blog post in the repository cypress-sendgrid-visual-testing-example \[https://github.com/bahmutov/cypress-sendgrid-visu Read more](/blog/visual-testing-for-emails-sent-using-3rd-party-dynamic-templates) [Webcast Recording | Flaky Test Management with Cypress Last week, Cecelia Martinez, Technical Account Manager at Cypress, and Mike Cataldo, DX Engineer at Cypress, presented a live webcast on how to find and manage flaky tests in your test suite. Some of the key topics they covered include: * The common causes of test flakiness, including DOM-related, network-related, and environment-related flake * Best practices for writing flake-resistant tests * How to manage flakiness in your test suite with Cypress features like test retries, flaky test i Read more](/blog/webcast-recording-flaky-test-management-with-cypress) [Full Testing of HTML Emails using SendGrid and Ethereal Accounts Imagine you are sending beautiful HTML emails using your own SMTP server or even a 3rd party service like SendGrid. What if the emails are formatted incorrectly? What if the template string is incorrect and the user sees Dear <>? Can you test the emails to make sure they really work? In this blog post I will describe the full cycle email testing. We will send actual emails using 3rd party service SendGrid \[https://sendgrid.com/\] and we will fetch that email from a temporary email acc Read more](/blog/full-testing-of-html-emails-using-ethereal-accounts) [Cypress + Storybook 2.0 When building a design system, we like to see components rendered in isolation. What better tool to do that than Storybook? We can see our components, wrap them in decorators, and show our stakeholders beautiful user story demos. Once we know how our components should look, we want to test them. For that part, I love to use Cypress component testing \[https://docs.cypress.io/guides/component-testing/introduction#What-is-Component-Testing\] . How great would it be if we could just re-use the stori Read more](/blog/cypress-x-storybook-2-0) [Testing HTML Emails using Cypress In this blog post, we will use a local SMTP server to receive emails sent by the app to the user. We will test the HTML emails to make sure they look and work correctly. Note: you can find the source code shown in this blog post at cypress-email-example \[https://github.com/bahmutov/cypress-email-example\] \[https://github.com/bahmutov/cypress-email-example\] and watch a video explaining the testing process here \[https://youtu.be/16WTH7XeIVw\]. Sending emails If you want to send an email from a No Read more](/blog/testing-html-emails-using-cypress) [Live Webcast | Flaky Test Management with Cypress Register Tired of battling flaky tests? Join us Wednesday, May 19th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT to find out how to focus your efforts with test-writing best practices, how to understand different types of flake, and the many ways in which Cypress can help you eliminate flake for good. Your Webcast Hosts In this webcast, we'll define flake and the many ways that it can impact your tests. Next, you'll learn: * The common causes of test flakiness, including DOM-related, network-related, Read more](/blog/live-webcast-flaky-test-management-with-cypress) [Newer posts](/blog/page/28) [Older posts](/blog/page/30)