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Development Practices

How To Write Cypress E2E Tests That Aren’t Flaky

Writing reliable Cypress E2E tests isn't always straightforward. Learn practical tips to make your tests more stable and less flaky.

Test Driven Development

How to Write Cypress Tests That Don’t Suck

Following best practices can significantly reduce the friction for end-to-end testing. Here's how to write Cypress tests that don't suck.

GitHub Actions

Reduce Github Action Runs with Smart Triggers

Use GitHub action triggers to fine-tune workflows and run for every pull request, commit push, or run pipelines manually.

Exploratory Testing

Test Network Requests with Cypress Intercepts

Use Cypress requests to validate server responses and ensure network requests complete before tests continue.

Ruby on Rails

Switch Rails Database Connections While Running Cypress Tests

This setup will switch the database connection when the Cypress tests are running so it won't muddy up the data in other database environments.

Web Apps

Running End to End Cypress in a Google Cloud Build Pipeline

Here's the next installment of our series on adding end-to-end Cypress to a web app, discussing how we ran tests in a Google Cloud Build test pipeline.

Web Apps

Adding End to End Cypress to a Web Project Part 3: Getting Set Up with Cypress & Seeding the Database Between Tests

This post will cover the basics of getting Cypress installed and ready to go, writing a placeholder test, and resetting the test database between tests.

Exploratory Testing

Test Timers and Reduce the Wait with Cypress’ Cy.Clock

Testing timers reliably is difficult in manual tests. To avoid waiting, Cypress has a built-in method cy.clock() that turns coders into Time Lords.

Developer Tools

How to Fix a Prisma Library Load Problem with Cypress on macOS

Here's how to fix the "Unable to Load Node-API Library" error that can come up when trying to use Prisma in Cypress tasks on macOS.

Web Apps

Adding End to End Cypress to a Web Project Part 2: Seeding the Test Data

In part two of this guide to adding e2e Cypress, we'll discuss how to generate and seed a test data set for a PostgreSQL database.

Web Apps

Adding End to End Cypress to a Web Project Part 1: Setting Up the Infrastructure

Setting up end-to-end Cypress testing from scratch for an existing application can be a bit intimidating, so we broke the process down into smaller steps.