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 navigation requests

Cypress navigation involves the behavior of navigating to the web pages of an application. In a lot of the tests that we have covered in this book, you might remember that before the tests, we have the cy.visit() command, which contains the URL of the page we are navigating to or that is being tested. The cy.visit() command is an example of a navigation command and assists us in making navigation requests in our Cypress frontend tests. In this section, we will cover different Cypress navigation commands by using examples and also exercises. By the end of this section, we will have a deeper understanding of Cypress navigation commands, which will help us build on the navigation knowledge that we already have from previous chapters of this book.

cy.visit()

We use cy.visit() in Cypress to navigate to a remote page of the application under test. By using this command, we can also pass in configuration information to the command and configure options...