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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 5: Debugging Cypress Tests

Debugging is the ability to identify and remove bugs from software applications. Having knowledge of debugging in Cypress and learning how to interpret Cypress' debugging output is critical to working with the Cypress framework. Cypress prides itself on its ability to give immediate feedback about whether tests have passed or failed. For Cypress to achieve an instant feedback mechanism, it has to be effective in the way the debug messages are structured in order to provide the user ease of interpretation.

To be able to excel in this chapter, you need to have read the previous chapters as they will help you gain knowledge of how tests run, how Cypress works, and the different ways in which we can run Cypress tests. In this chapter, we will focus on debugging Cypress tests while running them in headed mode through a test runner.

While this chapter will explore debugging Cypress using the test runner, Cypress comes bundled with other debugging...