Mike C

Mike C

Mike is a Software Engineer (DX) at Cypress, Husband, Father, Foodie, Christian. He lives in Provo, Utah, USA with his wife and four little monsters.

Cypress Tip: Use plugins to make assertions on your test environment

May 5, 20212 min read

Before we dive into my next tip, let's get something straight: writing a Cypress plugin is not scary! Nor is it just for advanced users to solve...

Cypress Tip: Use plugins to make assertions on your test environment

Publish heuristics when a "best practice" isn't universally applicable

Apr 5, 20211 min read

There's more than one way to peel a banana. Some may not have the dexterity or a ripe enough banana to do it your way. Does that mean you can't teach...

Publish heuristics when a "best practice" isn't universally applicable

Cypress Tip: Don't Overuse the Visibility Assertion

Feb 25, 20214 min read

Cypress makes assertions easy with the should command and an intuitive way to leverage the ubiquitous Chai assertion library. Let's say, for example,...

Cypress Tip: Don't Overuse the Visibility Assertion

Cypress Tip: In-Spec Functions

Feb 3, 20213 min read

Let's imagine you have a bunch of repeatable code in your Cypress tests: it('should do this thing', () => { // ... cy.get('#thisElement') ...

Cypress Tip: In-Spec Functions

Cypress Tip: Get the Cypress Dashboard App

Jan 29, 20212 min read

If you're familiar with the Cypress Dashboard, you might immediately suspect that I'm clickbaiting you, but stay with me! In Chrome, there's a way to...

Cypress Tip: Get the Cypress Dashboard App

Cypress gets lots of community love

Jan 28, 20212 min read

I took a risk with Cypress - and I’m glad I did. Writing and maintaining tests is a necessity if you want confidence in your product when it ships,...

Cypress gets lots of community love