--- title: "cy.blog()" url: "https://www.cypress.io/blog/page/46" description: "Page 46: 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) [Modern Front-End Testing with Cypress This is a guest post from Michael Herman, a software engineer and educator who lives in the Denver area. He is the founder of TestDriven.io. Besides development, he enjoys building financial models, tech writing, hiking, and teaching. Cypress is a modern web automation test framework designed to simplify browser testing—and it’s much more than just an end-to-end test automation tool. Cypress is a developer tool made to be used proactively by developers rather than a non-technical QA tea Read more](/blog/modern-frontend-testing-with-cypress) [Meet our new VP of Marketing: Steven Yi Cypress is pleased to announce, Steven Yi \[https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveyiwa/\] has joined Cypress.io as our vice president of marketing. In addition to his experience in developer evangelism and product marketing, he spent the first seven years of his career as a developer, working on large web e-commerce systems and enterprise integrations. Throughout his career he’s used several languages and platforms: Node.js, TypeScript and Express for web API and server-side execution, Python/Django, C Read more](/blog/our-new-vp-of-marketing-steven-yi) [When Can The Test Click? Recently a user opened a Cypress issue #3135 asking why the cy.click() command was behaving differently than the way click behaved when a user clicks on the button. We’ve seen many people ask similar questions involving click and wanted to address how to ensure your tests behave the same way as a user’s behavior. The problem The problem is straightforward once we walk through how Cypress works. Let’s use the web application at https://github-ylq5q4.stackblitz.io as an example. This ap Read more](/blog/when-can-the-test-click) [Using Nrwl Nx to Add Cypress to Your Angular Development Workflow This is a guest post from Benjamin Cabanes, an Angular Engineer at the Angular consulting firm Nrwl (Narwhal Technologies Inc.) in Toronto. As an active contributor to Nrwl’s Nx open source project, Ben also works with Nrwl’s American enterprise clients in the Telecom and Financial Services space. Ben regularly blogs about best practices when building Angular applications at scale. One of our goals at Nrwl.io is to modernize the enterprise. That’s why we built Nrwl Nx–a set of extension Read more](/blog/using-nrwl-nx-to-add-cypress-to-your-angular-development-workflow) [Happy 2019 from Cypress! As our team gets a running start to the new year, we think reflecting on how far Cypress.io has come in 2018 serves as the perfect conduit to determining our goals for 2019. We reached some truly unprecedented achievements, and we could not have done it without our outstanding Cypress community. Below are some of the highlights of 2018, as well as what we plan to accomplish in the year ahead. 2018: A Year of Growth This past June brought the acquisition of our CEO, Drew Lanham, as well as Read more](/blog/happy-2019-from-cypress) [Application Actions: Use Them Instead of Page Objects Hello, reader. This article was an opinion piece about why app actions are better than page objects. The page object pattern is well known in the QA community, and widely and successfully used in the Cypress ecosystem. Writing maintainable end-to-end tests is challenging. Often testers create another layer of indirection on top of the web page called page objects to execute common actions. In this post I argue that page objects are a bad practice, and suggest dispatching actions directly to the Read more](/blog/stop-using-page-objects-and-start-using-app-actions) [Element Coverage Our users are periodically asking us to instrument application code and save code coverage information after Cypress runs end-to-end tests. In this blog I will argue that code coverage is less than useful for end-to-end tests. Then I will show element coverage that might be a better metric. > Experimental feature This document shows a very early proof of concept. The API and features shown here are likely to change. Use at your own risk. How do you know that you have written enough tests? Ho Read more](/blog/element-coverage) [Devoxx Belgium 2018 & Xebia Meetup November was another great month here at Cypress as the team spread out across multiple conferences to talk about end-to-end testing. I had the pleasure of giving a conference talk and a workshop at Devoxx Belgium. In between the hustle and bustle of Devoxx, I made a visit to the Xebia headquarters for a Cypress meetup. Devoxx Belgium Conference I arrived in Antwerp, Belgium the night before the start of the conference on November 12th. This was my first visit to Belgium, and I must s Read more](/blog/devoxx-belgium-2018-and-xebia-meetup) [Meet our Lead Product Designer: Jeff Tucker Hi, I’m Jeff 👋 I’m a designer and developer, and I’ve just joined Cypress as Lead Product Designer. I’ve held a fairly wide assortment of roles before this – UX designer, frontend developer, backend developer, and data analyst. Let’s take a look at how I’m using these skills to help build Cypress. Parallelism calculator Cypress rolled out test parallelization support \[https://www.cypress.io/blog/2018/09/05/run-end-to-end-tests-on-ci-faster/\] just a few months ago. We’ve talked a good bit about Read more](/blog/meet-our-lead-product-designer-jeff-tucker) [Newer posts](/blog/page/45) [Older posts](/blog/page/47)