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End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress

By : Waweru Mwaura
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Book Image

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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the instrument panel, Selector Playground, and keyboard shortcuts in the Cypress Test Runner. We explored how the instrument panel works with stubs, spies, and routes and explored how routes, stubs, and spies work, and what information is shown in the instrument panel. We also looked at how the Selector Playground is utilized in Cypress and how we can leverage it to identify elements for the application under test, and also to optimize the selectors that Cypress uses to uniquely select elements. Finally, we learned what Cypress keyboard shortcuts do and what keys are mapped to the actions that are available using the browser functionality.

Now that we know and understand how different elements in Cypress tie together, we can go further to test our knowledge on the topics we have learned through our exercises. In the next chapter, we will test our knowledge on navigation, network requests, and navigation configuration options for tests.

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