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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

Chapter 3: Working with Cypress Command-Line Tools

In the previous chapter, we learned how Cypress differs from other test automation tools such as Selenium and how it stands out when it comes to web automation testing. In this chapter, we will build on our knowledge of using Cypress using command-line tools. To do this, we will cover commands that you can use to make use of Cypress' functionality.

Some of the commands will involve functions such as running individual or all tests, debugging Cypress, and launching Cypress tests on different browsers, among other Cypress command-line functions. We will be referencing the GitHub repository folder for this chapter, and every command and piece of code that will be written will be included in the repository for your reference and practice.

We will cover the following key topics in this chapter:

  • Running Cypress commands
  • Understanding basic Cypress commands
  • Cypress debugging on the command line

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