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Cypress: Automated End-to-End Testing for Web Applications
- Owner Team: Developer Experience Team
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Service:Developer Services
Key Features
- Fast, Real-Time Testing: Tests run in the browser as you write them with instant feedback.
- Time Travel: See exactly what happened at each step of your test via a visual timeline.
- Automatic Waiting: No need to add sleep or wait commands — Cypress automatically waits for elements to appear.
- Debuggable: Developer-friendly stack traces and error messages, with Chrome DevTools integration.
- Built-in Test Runner UI: A visual dashboard for running and debugging tests interactively.
- Network Control: Easily stub, spy, or intercept API requests to isolate tests from backend dependencies.
- CI/CD Integration: Seamless integration with popular CI pipelines and services (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.).
Common Use Cases
- Regression Testing
- Smoke Testing for Deployments
- UI Component Verification
- Form Validation and Flow Testing
- API + UI Integration Testing
- Visual Regression (with plugins)
Tech Stack Compatibility
- Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript
- Frameworks: React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Next.js, and more
- Build Tools: Webpack, Vite, Babel, etc.
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines