Case Study: SaltStack achieves a 93% reduction in regressions and rapid QA turnaround with Cypress

The SaltStack QA Turnaround Using Cypress.io

SaltStack is an award-winning IT automation platform that delivers continuous compliance and IT security for customers like IBM Cloud, LinkedIn and Adobe, so reliability is mission‑critical. Facing slow, manual front-end tests, rapid team growth, and a large React-to-Angular rewrite that lengthened testing cycles and increased regression risk, SaltStack adopted Cypress (using the Cypress Test Runner and Dashboard) to automate and speed their QA process.

Using Cypress, SaltStack automated the majority of their end-to-end tests, leveraging automatic waiting, the Test Runner and the Dashboard to accelerate runs, share results, and improve developer–QA collaboration. The impact was measurable: 800 automated Cypress tests, a 93% reduction in regressions, one engineer writing 300 tests in a month, 100% test coverage for new features, 75% of test cases automated, and over 500 flake‑free tests running twice daily — demonstrable quality and velocity gains driven by Cypress.

SaltStack

Nathan Watts

QA Automation Engineer