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Automate Monzo Savings with IFTTT Applets
Monzo IFTTT Applets Logging in to your banking app at the end of the month to move leftover cash from a checking account into a savings account is an easy way to accumulate cash savings. But with If...
read articleUse Renovate to Automate Node Dependency Version Updates
This post walks through how to use Renovate to automate keeping your Cypress project Node dependencies up to date by integrating the Renovate bot with your GitHub account. Renovate will scan GitHub...
read articleTesting Copy to Clipboard With Cypress
This post walks through how to use Cypress to test a webpage correctly copies a value to the clipboard. Please note this solution is for Chrome. Running these tests on other browsers may have...
read articleHandle New Tabs in Cypress Tests
This post walks through how to handle Cypress tests which click on links/buttons that opens in a new tab of the same domain. Examples of links which opens /about in new tabs: This HTML link uses HTML...
read articleTagging Cypress Tests with Cypress Grep
This post walks through using the cypress-grep plugin to tag your tests in order to only run selected tests. TL;DR See this repo for an example solution of tagging Cypress tests. For these steps I...
read articleRunning Cypress Tests in Parallel on Browserstack Remote Browsers
This post walks through configuring your existing Cypress tests to execute in parallel on Browserstack remote browsers. Browserstack is not the go-to service for making your Cypress tests run in...
read articleRunning Cypress Tests in Parallel on Multiple GitHub Actions Containers
This post walks through configuring your existing Cypress tests to execute in parallel on multiple GitHub Actions containers using the Cypress cypress-split plugin. The cypress-split plugin will...
read articleRunning Cypress Tests in Parallel on Multiple GitHub Actions Containers Recorded on Cypress Cloud
This post walks through configuring your existing Cypress tests to execute in parallel on multiple GitHub Actions containers recorded on Cypress Cloud. Cypress Cloud is a paid tool which supports...
read articleRunning Cypress Tests in Parallel on One Machine
This post walks through configuring your existing Cypress tests to execute in a multi-threaded parallel run using the cypress-parallel package. For these steps I will be referencing this example...
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