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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

Understanding page events

Cypress logs every main event that takes place when the tests are running. It can detect when a URL is changing, when a button is clicked, or even when an assertion is being made. Page events capture the important events that the DOM goes through when a test is running.

To demonstrate how page events work, we will use our Todo application, as we did in the previous chapter. Following the chapter-05 directory in our GitHub repository, we will create our test file in the Cypress integration subdirectory and name it debugging.spec.js. We will then create our test in the newly created spec file, which will navigate to the Todo application, add a todo item, and check for the page events that pop up in our Cypress test runner. The following code block will handle adding the todo item to our application:

it('can add a todo', () => {
      cy.get(".new-todo").type("New Todo {Enter}");
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