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Summary

Filip Hric, a QA lead at Slido and Cypress Ambassador, discusses enhancing error screenshot efficiency in Cypress testing by utilizing the cy.log() command to provide additional context to test actions. While Cypress offers excellent code readability and video recordings of test runs, Hric suggests that screenshots, when properly captioned with cy.log(), can be more efficient for diagnosing multiple test failures. By adding a numbered log to each test step and incorporating it into error messages, he creates more informative and accessible error logs that are displayed in the Cypress Dashboard, facilitating quicker debugging and ticket creation.