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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Comparing Cypress and Selenium WebDriver

It is easy to fall into the trap of making assumptions that Cypress is a replacement for Selenium WebDriver and that its use could render Selenium WebDriver completely obsolete in the world of testing automation. While it is simple to directly assume that either Cypress is better or superior to Selenium or the other way round, this thinking is flawed and is incorrect in most instances.

In this section, we will cover why Cypress is unique and how its purpose is more complementary to Selenium WebDriver than supplementary. The following sections outline some of the differences between Selenium WebDriver and Cypress.

Browser driver

Cypress utilizes a custom universal driver for all the browsers that it supports, while on the other hand, Selenium WebDriver utilizes different drivers for each of the different browsers that it supports. The ability to use a universal driver for all the browsers means that on installation, we can run our tests...