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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 how Cypress performs navigation, how requests are created, and how Cypress interprets and returns them for our test execution process. We took a hands-on approach to learning about the three fundamental Cypress navigation commands and also the three commands that Cypress uses for making and interpreting requests. The exercises provided a channel for you to get out of your comfort zone and do some research on advanced uses of Cypress and how we can integrate logic and the knowledge we have garnered in this book to write meaningful tests that add value to the applications being tested. Finally, we looked at the advanced configuration options of the cy.visit() command. I am confident that in this chapter, you learned the skills of handling and implementing navigation and network requests in tests and also configuring navigation requests.

Now that we have practically explored navigation and requests in Cypress using a hands-on approach, we will use...