You're reading from End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress Explore techniques for automated frontend web testing with Cypress and JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839213854

Length 240 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Cypress

Concepts

Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Waweru Mwaura

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cypress as an End-to-End Testing Solution for Frontend Applications

2. Chapter 1: Installing and Setting Up Cypress FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Differences between Selenium WebDriver and Cypress

4. Chapter 3: Working with Cypress Command-Line Tools

5. Chapter 4: Writing Your First Test

6. Chapter 5: Debugging Cypress Tests

7. Section 2: Automated Tests with the TDD Approach

8. Chapter 6: Writing Cypress Tests Using the TDD approach

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Element Interaction in Cypress

10. Chapter 8: Understanding Variables and Aliases in Cypress

11. Chapter 9: Advanced Uses of Cypress Test Runner

12. Section 3: Automated Testing for Your Web Application

13. Chapter 10: Exercise – Navigation and Network Requests

14. Chapter 11: Exercise – Stubbing and Spying XHR Requests

15. Chapter 12: Visual Testing in Cypress

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Implementing network requests

Network requests involve the handling of AJAX and XHR requests to the backend services. Cypress handles this with its in-built cy.request() and cy.intercept() commands. In this section, we will take a hands-on approach and dive deep into how we implement network requests in Cypress using examples and exercises. We have previously interacted with network requests in Chapter 9, Advanced Uses of Cypress Test Runner, of this book and this chapter will help you build on the theoretical knowledge and concepts that you are already familiar with.

cy.request()

The Cypress cy.request() command is responsible for making HTTP requests to API endpoints. This command can be used to execute API requests and receive responses without the need to create or import an external library to make and handle our API requests and responses. Our Cypress finance application uses a backend API that is based on a JSON database. To learn how the cy.request() command works, we...