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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

Advanced navigation request configuration

Navigation is one of the most important aspects of properly running tests. By using the cy.visit(), cy.go(), and even cy.reload() commands, we have the ability to know what shortcuts to take when writing our tests. The navigation commands also significantly simplify test workflows. Most of the frontend tests require navigation and, therefore, grasping the advanced configuration will not only make your life easier but will also lead to a smoother experience while writing tests. In this section, we will focus mainly on the Cypress advanced command configuration for cy.visit() as it is the main navigation command for Cypress.

cy.visit() configuration options

The following table shows the configuration options for the cy.visit() command and the default values that are loaded when no options are passed to the option object:

The cy.visit() command accepts different types of parameters and this...