Automation Testing with Cypress: Explore modern techniques to automate frontend testing with Cypress and JavaScript

Get to grips with Cypress and implement the concepts you learn with the help of real-world examples and best practices

Key Features

• Write your first end-to-end test and find out how to modernize your testing environment
• Execute test-driven web development using Cypress
• Discover the advantages of Cypress over Selenium and refactor testing for modern web apps

Book Description

Cypress is a modern automation testing 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 writing explicit time waits for your tests.

With this book, 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 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 covers advanced testing concepts such as visual testing and networking.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to set up Cypress for any web app and know how to utilize it to its full potential.

What you will learn

• Get to grips with using Cypress and understand its advantages over Selenium
• Explore common Cypress commands, tools, and techniques for writing complete tests for web apps
• Set up and configure Cypress for cross-browser testing
• Understand how to work with elements and animation to write non-flaky tests
• Discover techniques to implement and handle navigation requests in tests
• Implement visual regression tests with Applitools eyes

Who This Book Is For

The book is for automation testing professionals, software and web testers, and frontend web developers who are well-versed in JavaScript and want to learn and implement Cypress. If you are a Selenium tester who wants to migrate to Cypress and uncover its capabilities, you’ll find this book useful. A solid understanding of web testing and JavaScript is required.