This blog post shows how to increase the resolution of the videos and screenshots recorded during the cypress run execution. Videos with higher resolution make debugging simpler and look better when shared with other members of the team. The problem Let's look at the Wikipedia.com website. In m…
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Testing periodic network requests with cy.intercept and cy.clock combination
This blog post tests an application that fetches new data every 30 seconds, but the test itself runs in milliseconds because it controls the application's clock and stubs the network responses.…
When Can The Test Blink?
Let's take a page where a loading element is displayed while the application is fetching the data from the server. If the test is observing the loading element to make sure it disappears, can the loading be too fast? Can the test runner "blink" and miss the element?…
Testing the HREF Anchor Links
Once upon a time Zach Bloomquist and I were discussing how to achieve an all-time hero status. We were talking about our open source heroes of course, and I wanted to send Zach a link to the testing section of the Develop, Preview, Test blog post written by Guillermo Rauch. The testing section was i…
Retry, Rerun, Repeat
> If at first you don't succeed, then dust yourself off and try again. - American R&B singer Aaliyah (1979-2001) The modern Internet is built on retries. Software and hardware failures are normal and…