Extend Case Study: Best Practices for Maximizing Efficiency Through Cypress Component Testing

Extend's journey with Cypress Component Testing exemplifies how a strategic shift in testing methodologies can dramatically enhance test efficiency and developer productivity:

3 million Cypress end-to-end tests executed; 1 million Cypress component tests executed
Achieved PR to production in under 60 minutes
Attained CI feedback within 10 minutes using Cypress Cloud Parallelization

Extend, a leading product and shipping protection platform, has harnessed the power of Cypress Component Testing (CT) to revolutionize their front-end testing approach. This case study explores how Extend's team of 80 engineers, including 7 dedicated developer experience engineers, leveraged Cypress CT to maximize efficiency and improve their front-end development workflow.

A complete end-to-end testing experience.

Install the Cypress app and write tests locally.

Run a suite of CI tests, record them, and gain powerful insights.

Set up tests

Installing Cypress is simple. No dependencies, extra downloads, or changes to your code required.

Write tests

Write tests easily and quickly, and watch them execute in real-time as you build your web application.

Run tests

Debugging your tests in CI is as easy as running tests locally. With built-in parallelization and load balancing.

Record tests

Record CI test data, screenshots, and video - and view aggregated, next-level insights in Cypress Cloud.

About Cypress

Cypress is the new standard in front-end testing that every developer and QA engineer needs.

With millions of downloads and users in over 90 countries, Cypress is the leader in browser-based test automation for the modern web. Cypress enables developers and enterprises to easily, quickly, and accurately test anything that runs in the browser, empowering developers to build modern web applications faster, better.