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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 installing Cypress both on Windows and on Mac operating systems. With both installations, we covered installing Cypress as a downloaded application or via the command line. We also covered using either the default package manager that comes with Node.js (npm) or third-party dependency managers such as Yarn. We learned how to utilize the test runner to run our tests and also how to automate our scripts in package.json to help us run our tests effectively. To test our knowledge, we also had an exercise where we practiced running tests in different Cypress browsers.

In the next chapter, we will be diving into the differences between Selenium and Cypress and why Cypress should be the preferred choice. We will be building further on the understanding of Cypress that we have gained in this chapter.