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End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress

By : Waweru Mwaura
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End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress

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By: Waweru Mwaura

Overview of this book

Cypress is a modern test automation framework for web-based frontend apps. Learning Cypress will help you overcome the shortcomings of conventional testing solutions such as dependency graph problems, the steep learning curve in setting up end-to-end testing packages, and difficulties in writing explicit time waits for your tests. In End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress, you’ll learn how to use different Cypress tools, including time travel, snapshots, errors, and console output, to write fail-safe and non-flaky tests. You’ll discover techniques for performing test-driven development (TDD) with Cypress and write cross-browser tests for your web applications. As you advance, you’ll implement tests for a sample application and work with a variety of tools and features within the Cypress ecosystem. Finally, this Cypress book will help you grasp advanced testing concepts such as visual testing and networking. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to be able to set up Cypress for any web app and understand how to use it to its full potential.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Cypress as an End-to-End Testing Solution for Frontend Applications
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Section 2: Automated Tests with the TDD Approach
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Section 3: Automated Testing for Your Web Application

Test Runner keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts come in handy especially when we do not want to perform manual actions on the browser that involve a series of steps. In this section, we will learn how to use three keyboard shortcuts to control the Cypress Test Runner and to run our tests effectively. With the Test Runner, we will perform common actions more quickly than we would when explicitly triggering the actions with the browser actions.

The following are the mappings of different keyboard keys and their associated actions:

  • R – Rerunning the tests of a spec file(s)
  • S – Stopping the running tests
  • F – Viewing all tests in the spec window

These keyboard keys will trigger different actions on the Test Runner depending on the key presses made by the user.

Recap – Test Runner keyboard shortcuts

In this section, we learned how Cypress keyboard shortcuts can be used to control the common actions of the Test Runner using three...