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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

Summary

In this chapter, we set out to understand how to do visual testing and its importance, as well as the viewports and tools we can use to carry out automated visual testing. Throughout this chapter, we've learned how to properly carry out visual testing. This involved understanding how to create viewports, how to test on different viewports, and also why we need automated visual tests to run on multiple viewports. We then explored two testing tools, Percy and the Applitools Eyes SDK, and extensively covered their use cases, their setup processes, and how to write Cypress tests using them. Finally, we worked on some exercises to improve our familiarity and interaction with these tools.

With that, we have come to the end of this book. If you have been consistently reading all the chapters in this book, I am confident that you have more Cypress knowledge than you started out with. I hope that this book has challenged the way you think, made you develop a love for Cypress...