June 2025 Summaries

Kevin Ramirez is a Cypress Ambassador who is motivated by his passion for testing and his desire to engage with the community and share his knowledge. He helps others at his company by troubleshooting issues, optimizing test strategies, and exploring new test cases to ensure better coverage and reliability. Kevin's favorite Cypress feature is Test Replay, which he finds invaluable for debugging failing tests, and he believes that prioritizing user behavior over technical implementation details is a key best practice. Outside of work, he enjoys watching sports and spending time with his dog, and he is proud of professional milestones such as overhauling his team's automated tests and speaking at CypressConf. For new users, Kevin recommends getting started with Cypress by spinning up a project and writing tests, learning through hands-on experience, and he finds inspiration in Michael Jordan's quote about persevering through failure to achieve success.

Paul Astorga, a QA engineer and Cypress Ambassador, was motivated to join the program after finding confidence in automation through using Cypress, and now aims to share his knowledge and help others transition into automation. He encourages people to learn Cypress due to its excellent documentation, supportive community, and hands-on practice opportunities, and emphasizes the importance of aliases for API responses and independent test cases. Outside of work, Paul enjoys video games, cycling, and is proud of his career path change from manual to automation testing. For new users, he recommends starting with small features, trying out Cypress without fear, and reaching out to the community for help. The Cypress Ambassador program, which Paul is a part of, supports top advocates around the world, offering speaking opportunities, resources, and visibility, and highlights the amazing work of its ambassadors in empowering others through their advocacy.

At Frontend Nation 2025, Cypress founder Brian Mann discussed the future of end-to-end testing using natural language, showcasing how it can be a powerful tool for automating browsers with plain English. Natural language is beneficial as it allows non-developers and QA teams to write tests faster, reduces brittleness with self-healing selectors, increases portability across teams and systems, and supports multilingual prompts for global teams. However, current AI browser agents often fall short in providing reliable and performant test automation due to being built for generic web tasks, hallucinating outputs, and lacking support for debugging and test lifecycle needs. To address this, Cypress has introduced cy.prompt, an AI-powered command that enables users to describe tests in plain English, which is fast, resilient, and adaptable to evolving apps without the overhead of traditional AI agents, and also allows for inspecting and debugging each step of the prompt. Cypress is rolling out cy.prompt as an experimental feature this summer, offering early access to those who sign up.