Number of posts: 65

Do Not Get Too Detached

When the Cypress Test Runner runs through the test's steps, the application can update itself, causing problems. Often a very frustrating problem our users encounter simply says cy... failed because the element has been detached from the DOM. You can see this error below and its explanation usin…

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Experimental Fetch Polyfill

Let's take an application that makes an Ajax call to the browser to load a list of ... fruits. You can find this awesome and healthy application in Cypress Example Recipes [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-recipes#stubbing-and-spying] under name "Stubbing window.fetch".…

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When Can The Test Log Out?

Recently, we released the Cypress Real World App [https://www.cypress.io/blog/2020/06/11/introducing-the-cypress-real-world-app/] - a modern web application with a full set of E2E and API tests showing the recommended best practices for writing tests. From the start, we had Linux continuous integra…

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Where Does the Test Spend Its Time?

No one likes slow tests. But before we can make a test faster, we need to understand where the test actually spends its time. In this blog post I will show how to report the total test duration and time per individual Cypress command.…

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