April 2019 Summaries

The webinar, hosted by Cypress and Percy, delved into the integration of end-to-end functional and visual testing for web applications, demonstrating their utility through a fun Angular pizza ordering app. The session highlighted the capabilities of Cypress in providing efficient browser-based functional testing, while Percy was introduced for visual testing to detect UI changes without writing fragile test cases. The use of visual diffs in Percy enhances the detection and review of visual regressions, allowing developers to maintain robust codebases. The webinar also covered the integration of Percy with CI services like CircleCI, enabling seamless visual testing workflows, and discussed how Percy allows for visual reviews directly from pull requests, simplifying the process of identifying and approving UI changes. The session emphasized the ease and reliability of merging and deploying changes with confidence, facilitated by Percy's infrastructure and testing platform.

Cypress has announced the launch of their Open Source (OSS) Plan for the Cypress Dashboard Service, providing free access to open-source projects for optimizing software quality through features like unlimited public test recordings, test parallelization, and run grouping. This initiative supports projects using an OSI-approved license and allows developers and QA teams to enhance test runs, gain insights into test failures, and collaborate on results. Additionally, the Free (Seed) Plan has been improved with features such as parallelization and run grouping, while test recording limits have been simplified to eliminate the distinction between public and private recordings. Paid subscription plans remain unchanged, and further details are available on the Cypress pricing page, with support offered via email.

On March 27th, a successful webinar featuring GoDaddy and Cypress highlighted how GoDaddy fostered a culture of quality through test automation using Cypress. The event drew nearly 400 registrants from 28 countries across four continents, with attendees providing positive feedback through a post-webinar survey. Participants who completed the survey were promised a surprise in their mailbox. The Cypress Team encouraged viewers to follow them on Twitter for updates on future webinars, including an upcoming session with Percy.io.