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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 looked at the role of debugging when it comes to executing tests. We identified aspects of the Cypress framework that make the debugging process in Cypress useful for anyone writing tests and implementing the Cypress framework. We also learned that Cypress is bundled with different tools that can be used either to achieve different purposes or the same ones. The main takeaway is that no matter what bug you encounter, Cypress will find a way for you to identify and fix it.

By completing this chapter, you have learned what page events are in Cypress, how to interpret Cypress test runner errors, how time travel works in executed tests, and how to interpret test snapshots. You also learned how to interpret console output information from Cypress and how to use the two special debugging commands that are available.

Now that we know about debugging and its impact on our tests, we can comfortably dive into the second section of this book, which will involve...