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

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why choose Cypress?

Cypress is an end-to-end testing framework that is written by developers, for developers and Quality Assurance (QA) engineers. Cypress focuses on testing web applications and since the only way to automate the web is by using JavaScript, Cypress only supports the use of JavaScript to write its tests.

Cypress was specifically written for frontend teams that utilize JavaScript for the development of their products, along with teams that need to quickly get started with the process of writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests without the complicated intricacies of properly setting up a testing framework.

Cypress is not only beginner-friendly, but also ensures that everything that a developer or a QA engineer needs to get started on their tests is already packaged in the bundle that is downloaded and installed from the Cypress website. Cypress comes bundled with its own browser, a test runner, and chai as an assertion framework.

Having a bundle that contains...