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cypress tap: Closing the Loop Between Your Agent and Your Suite
Your agent can write the test and run the test. Until now, it couldn't see the page. Test failures...
David Ingraham8 min read
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Senior SDET and Cypress Ambassador, with over six years of experience implementing robust automation frameworks and patterns for various engineering teams and projects.
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David Ingraham8 min read
#programming#automation#testing
A One-Second Static Check for E2E Selector Drift
Every E2E test run has a price tag, and it's paid in feedback-loop minutes. Here's a classic...
David Ingraham11 min read
#software#development#programming#beginners
How to Be a 10x Engineer
Or maybe: why we've been asking the wrong question all along. How do you become a 10x...
David Ingraham14 min read
#ai#testing#programming
The Most Valuable QA Skill in the Age of AI Is Thinking
A few years ago, AI in testing was a futuristic conversation. Now it's a daily one, the share of US...
David Ingraham8 min read
#architecture#productivity#softwaredevelopment#ui
Treating the UI as a Contract: Eliminating the Wait in Modern Development
This blog and concept was a collaboration between Leonardo Lanni & David Ingraham. Most...
David Ingraham7 min read
#javascript#performance#productivity#testing
Your Cypress Tests Are Slower Than You Think
If you’ve worked on a decent-sized Cypress suite, you’ve lived this. You push code. Pipeline kicks...
David Ingraham12 min read
#testing#automation#beginners
Lessons I Wish I Knew When I Started in Test Automation
A Battle-Scarred Senior SDET's Perspective When I first moved into test automation, I thought I was...
David Ingraham7 min read
#qa#leadership#automation#testing
How to Build a QA Team Engineers Actually Want to Work With
Why quality teams fail, what modern QA actually looks like, and how to build a culture developers...
David Ingraham9 min read
#automation#leadership#testing
Test Leadership as Change Management: Why Your Real Job Isn’t Testing
If you’ve ever tried to roll out a new automation framework and been met with blank stares, quiet...
David Ingraham6 min read
#testing#playwright#cypress#automation
The Automation Maturity Pyramid
The Automation Maturity Pyramid How effective is your automation test suite? How...
David Ingraham8 min read
Cypress — How to Create Automatic Weekly Flake Alerting
Flaky tests waste time, erode confidence, and make debugging a nightmare — especially when running in...
David Ingraham5 min read
#cypress#automation#multiuser#testing
Cypress - Real-Time Multi-User Testing Made Easy
When building applications with real-time features or collaborative workflows, you'll often encounter...
David Ingraham6 min read
Cypress — How to Create a Merge Report in your Pipeline
Cypress Cloud is a powerful tool for tracking test health and identifying long-term patterns....
David Ingraham6 min readCypress — How to Create a Merge Report in your Pipeline
Cypress Cloud is a powerful tool for tracking test health and identifying long-term patterns....
David Ingraham6 min read
#cypress#tutorial#automation#programming
Cypress - 7 Features I Wish the Native Test Runner Had (And How to Work Around Them)
Cypress is one of the best tools for end-to-end testing, offering a fast, developer-friendly...
David Ingraham5 min read
#cypress#tutorial#automation#programming
Cypress: (Help)ers Wanted — When and Where to Use Them
When organizing your Cypress helpers, should they go in a utility file, become a custom command or...
David Ingraham8 min read
#cypress#tutorial#automation#programming
Cypress — Simple Custom Command to Conditionally Skip Tests
While conditionally skipping entire tests is likely rare, there are use-cases in which this might be...
David Ingraham2 min read
#career#interview#programming#automation
How to Conduct an SDET Technical Interview
The role of a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is crucial for ensuring quality and...
David Ingraham7 min read
#cypress#a11y#automation
cypress-runner-themes: Alternative Styles for the Cypress Test Runner
Are you tired of the out-of-the-box Cypress Runner and want to shake things up? Now you can, with the...
David Ingraham2 min read
#cypress#testing#coding#tutorial
Cypress — Programmatically Control Test Data
Test data is a core element of any automated test. It forms the foundation for various scenarios,...
David Ingraham7 min read
#cypress#tutorial#testing#coding
Cypress — Easy Multi-Environment Configuration
Whether running a subset of tests against a local environment, a regression suite against a hosted,...
David Ingraham5 min read
Optimize Debugging Automation Tests
What if debugging wasn’t the most frustrating part of your job? For those who couldn’t attend, the...
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