From Zero to Hero with Cypress: Slido’s journey of creating E2E tests without JS experience

You’ve probably seen Slido used at events and meetings. With over 244,000 successful events and 7.1 million questions asked, Slido enables users to crowdsource top questions to drive conversations and engage participants in live and online events. Top customers include Spotify, Lufthansa, and the BBC - and Slido is used at world-class events like SXSW.

To make sure they keep innovating and improving, Slido has to make sure these interactions execute flawlessly while finding the right balance between maintaining high quality and daily releases.

Find out how the QA team started their journey with no JavaScript experience. Now with Cypress, they have authored over 600 end-to-end tests integrated into their CI processes, perform tests and notifications via Slack, perform visual regression testing, and even test their outbound emails.

We’ll explore how Slido structures their teams and processes, and learn about their journey towards quality, test automation, and the lessons learned along the way.

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