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End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213854
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how Cypress performs navigation, how requests are created, and how Cypress interprets and returns them for our test execution process. We took a hands-on approach to learning about the three fundamental Cypress navigation commands and also the three commands that Cypress uses for making and interpreting requests. The exercises provided a channel for you to get out of your comfort zone and do some research on advanced uses of Cypress and how we can integrate logic and the knowledge we have garnered in this book to write meaningful tests that add value to the applications being tested. Finally, we looked at the advanced configuration options of the cy.visit() command. I am confident that in this chapter, you learned the skills of handling and implementing navigation and network requests in tests and also configuring navigation requests.

Now that we have practically explored navigation and requests in Cypress using a hands-on approach, we will use...

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