You're reading from A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing Explore leading web test automation frameworks and their future driven by low-code and AI

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238319

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Eran Kinsbruner

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview

2. Chapter 1: Cross-Browser Testing Methodologies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Challenges Faced by Frontend Web Application Developers

4. Chapter 3: Top Web Test Automation Frameworks

5. Chapter 4: Matching Personas and Use Cases to Testing Frameworks

6. Chapter 5: Introducing the Leading Frontend Web Development Frameworks

7. Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers

8. Chapter 6: Map the Pillars of a Dev Testing Strategy for Web Applications

9. Chapter 7: Core Capabilities of the Leading JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks

10. Chapter 8: Measuring Test Coverage of the Web Application

11. Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

12. Chapter 9: Working with the Selenium Framework

13. Chapter 10: Working with the Cypress Framework

14. Chapter 11: Working with the Playwright Framework

15. Chapter 12: Working with the Puppeteer Framework

16. Chapter 13: Complementing Code-Based Testing with Low-Code Test Automation

17. Chapter 14: Wrapping Up

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Getting started with the Cypress framework

As noted earlier in the chapter, Cypress (https://www.cypress.io/) is by far the fastest and most adopted cross-browser frontend JavaScript testing framework. It is a developer-friendly, fast execution solution by design, and runs on the browser. In this section, we will learn how to install, set up, and run the first Cypress test in JavaScript. Note that Cypress also supports TypeScript and can be configured to run with the Cucumber BDD framework as well.

To get started with Cypress, please run the following command to install the node package on your machine:

npm install cypress --save-dev

Similar to Selenium and JavaScript, Cypress also requires Node.js to be installed on the local machine to run the Cypress tests. If you do not have Node.js installed, please make sure that, in addition to the installation of Cypress, you install it as a dependency as well.

Once the Cypress framework is installed, users can drive the tests either...