Case Study: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory achieves GitHub Trending and near-bug-free releases with Cypress

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s cybersecurity visualization app reaches GitHub Trending with only one minor bug

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy national lab, needed to deliver a trustworthy user experience for RedEye, a cybersecurity data‑visualization app for Red and Blue Team operations. PNNL’s engineering team was hampered by a commonly used open‑source testing framework that produced slow, flaky tests, required heavy manual setup, and let too many bugs reach production—so they sought a modern testing solution and evaluated Cypress.

PNNL implemented Cypress as its end‑to‑end testing solution and adopted Cypress Cloud in their GitHub Actions pipeline, enabling deterministic in‑browser tests, visual artifacts, and parallelized CI runs. The results: 85%+ of crucial user stories covered by automated tests, a 75% reduction in CI run times, a 99% reduction in test failures, and rapid debugging via screenshots/logs; RedEye hit GitHub Trending with only one minor bug reported and amassed over 2k stars and ~200 forks in a month—outcomes attributable to Cypress.

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