--- title: Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Tatiana Mikhaleva | daily.dev description: Tatiana Mikhaleva, founder of DevOps.Pink and Cypress Ambassador, shares her motivation for promoting Cypress, her favorite features like time-travel... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-tatiana-mikhaleva-in9owzf6j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Tatiana Mikhaleva | daily.dev og:description: Tatiana Mikhaleva, founder of DevOps.Pink and Cypress Ambassador, shares her motivation for promoting Cypress, her favorite features like time-travel... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-tatiana-mikhaleva-in9owzf6j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IN9OWzf6J.png og:image:alt: Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Tatiana Mikhaleva og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Tatiana Mikhaleva **[cypress](https://daily.dev/sources/cypress)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tatiana Mikhaleva, founder of DevOps.Pink and Cypress Ambassador, shares her motivation for promoting Cypress, her favorite features like time-travel debugging, and best practices such as using data-cy attributes to decouple tests from implementation. She also discusses how she creates accessible guides for integrating Cypress into CI/CD pipelines and mentors underrepresented groups in tech. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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