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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 understood how the process of TDD works and the importance of embracing TDD in any team, and looked at the advantages and disadvantages of TDD. We also explored how TDD can be applied to a practical application. By doing this, we created requirements for a Todo application that had not been built yet. Before developing the application, we wrote TDD tests for the features we thought were important, and then used these requirements and TDD tests to develop our features. Once we'd finished developing our features, we modified our first TDD versions of the tests so that they work for our developed features, hence completing the process of showcasing how to utilize TDD in a practical application.

Now, you should understand what TDD is, how to write TDD tests, and how to modify and use TDD tests in a real-world application so that they conform to the developed application.

Now that we know about TDD and how to implement it in our projects, we will focus...