March 2021 Summaries

Pendo's product cloud, known for offering user insights and communication tools for digital product teams, is hosting a webcast to discuss how their quality engineers have integrated Cypress to enhance their testing processes. Scheduled for April 7th, the event will highlight the switch to Cypress for its advanced features like Test Retries and Flaky Test Detection, which helped Pendo's team rebuild their test suite, improve testing efficiency by 86%, and boost their Net Promoter Score (NPS). The webcast will also cover strategies for scaling Cypress within the organization, including involving developers in the testing process, and will conclude with a live Q&A session. Participants who register but cannot attend will receive a recording of the presentation.

Distinguished Engineer at Cypress, Gleb Bahmutov, and Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Jason Lengstorf, hosted a live webcast discussing the integration of the Cypress Netlify build plugin to ensure bug-free Jamstack site deployments. They explained how Netlify streamlines developer workflows and the role of testing within this process, highlighting the creation and utility of the Cypress Netlify Build plugin for adding end-to-end tests post-build to prevent deploying broken sites. The webcast, which included engaging audience interactions and live questions, can be accessed through a recording and presentation slides. The organizers expressed gratitude for viewer feedback collected via a post-webcast survey, hinting at upcoming surprises for participants and future broadcasts.

Developers utilizing Netlify's serverless platform for Jamstack can enhance productivity and streamline the site-building process by incorporating Cypress tests into their workflow. A webcast scheduled for March 18, 2021, aims to demonstrate the integration of the Cypress Netlify build plugin, ensuring Jamstack site deploys are consistently bug-free. Participants will learn about the creation of the plugin, its role in adding end-to-end tests post-build, and how it fits into the streamlined developer workflow provided by Netlify. The session will include a live demonstration and a Q&A segment, with a recorded version available for registrants unable to attend the live event.

The blog post by Gleb Bahmutov provides a comprehensive guide on generating high-resolution videos and screenshots during Cypress test executions to enhance debugging and presentation quality. The author highlights an issue with blurry images when running tests on continuous integration (CI) systems due to discrepancies between the viewport size and the actual browser window size, particularly when using the default Cypress settings on Linux. To address this, Bahmutov suggests increasing the browser window size, especially when running tests headlessly in external browsers like Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, rather than the built-in Electron browser, by using the browser launch API to set a higher resolution of 1920x1080 pixels or even 4K if necessary. The post emphasizes the importance of not compressing videos too much to maintain quality and provides practical examples and code snippets to implement these changes effectively. Additionally, links to source code, a video demonstration, and a GitHub discussion are offered to further support users in improving their test artifacts.