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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

Implementing navigation requests

Cypress navigation involves the behavior of navigating to the web pages of an application. In a lot of the tests that we have covered in this book, you might remember that before the tests, we have the cy.visit() command, which contains the URL of the page we are navigating to or that is being tested. The cy.visit() command is an example of a navigation command and assists us in making navigation requests in our Cypress frontend tests. In this section, we will cover different Cypress navigation commands by using examples and also exercises. By the end of this section, we will have a deeper understanding of Cypress navigation commands, which will help us build on the navigation knowledge that we already have from previous chapters of this book.

cy.visit()

We use cy.visit() in Cypress to navigate to a remote page of the application under test. By using this command, we can also pass in configuration information to the command and configure options...