Case Study: Gatsby achieves fewer bugs and faster PR reviews with Cypress

Gatsby boosts PR confidence with Cypress as 75% of submissions come from the community

Gatsby, an open-source site generator, faced challenges in managing a high volume of community contributions. Their manual testing process was error-prone and slow, leading to bugs, long pull request review times, and contributor frustration. They needed a robust solution to catch issues proactively and merge contributions with confidence, which led them to adopt Cypress for end-to-end testing.

By implementing Cypress, Gatsby created a reliable and extensive E2E test suite. The solution provided clear insights into test failures and enabled both internal developers and community contributors to write tests easily. As a result, Gatsby now catches regressions at the PR stage, has significantly increased confidence in merges, and has streamlined the contribution process for new users. The Cypress platform became the most valued part of their codebase.

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