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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

Cypress for frontend applications

Cypress is built for the web, and that means it comes packed with some tools and features that other frameworks may not have. This improves the testing experience for frontend web developers and QA engineers. In this section, we will explore the different elements that Cypress is packed with that make it convenient and easy for its users to jump in and get started. The following are some of the elements that make Cypress stand out from other test automation frameworks for frontend applications.

Test Runner

The Cypress Test Runner comes by default when Cypress is installed on the user's machine. It is an interactive user interface that allows the user of the Cypress framework to see the commands that are running in the tests, and also the application that is under test as the commands interact with it. The Test Runner has the ability to show the number of test failures, test passes, skipped tests, the command log, and even the viewport of...