Why Cypress?

Cypress is a next-generation frontend test automation tool built for automating both legacy and modern web applications. It also comes loaded with additional power to perform in-depth component testing, mocking and stubbing API calls, and more. Our focus in this chapter will remain on exploring its end-to-end (E2E) testing abilities. Cypress has grown versatile in the space of web test automation as it comes packed with many handy tools that might need additional manual integration efforts when using some of the other tools in the market. Rather than limiting itself as a browser automation tool, Cypress comes as a comprehensive E2E testing framework to validate both backend and frontend logic. It has a similar configuration for every frontend framework, thereby making the setup easy and portable. It also has tremendous performance gains when compared with the test runtimes of other commonly used E2E test frameworks.

Several continuous integration (CI) services such...