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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Cypress debugging on the command line

In this section, we will explore how to use the command line debugging properties of Cypress to troubleshoot the problems that we may encounter when running our tests. We will also explore the different debugging options that Cypress offers through the command line.

Cypress has a built-in debug module that can be exposed to users by passing debug commands before you run the tests using either cypress run or cypress open. To receive debugging output from the Terminal, the DEBUG environment variable needs to be set prior to the Cypress test runs in Mac or Linux environments.

The following scripts can be found in the chapter-03/ root directory's package.json file and are used to show debug output when the commands are executed. The first script can be used to show debug output when the cypress open command is used to run tests, while the second script can be used to show debug output when the cypress run command is used to run tests:

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