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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 7: Understanding Element Interaction in Cypress

Before we get started with how Cypress interacts with elements when running tests, it would be good to have a solid idea of the principles that make up Cypress, how it works, different Cypress commands, and even practical examples of the usage of Cypress. To fully understand this chapter, you will need to have followed the previous chapters, which will have set you up for success in your learning journey.

In this chapter, we will cover how Cypress interacts with elements and how it responds to different states of an element during interaction. We will also cover the fundamentals of how Cypress determines whether an element is ready for interaction or not through built-in mechanisms in Cypress commands.

We will cover the following key topics in this chapter:

  • Understanding actionability
  • Forcing actionability

Once you've worked through each of these topics, you will have the knowledge required to understand...