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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

Adding npm scripts

scripts is a package.json property that gives a user the ability to run commands via the command line in JavaScript applications. npm scripts can be used to add environment variables to the properties of an application, package applications into production-ready bundles, run tests, or automate any other activity in JavaScript applications. npm scripts can either be used as defined by npmjs.com or customized based on the user's preferences and applications. In this section, we will learn how to write npm scripts to run our Cypress tests, to open our Cypress tests, and even to combine different npm scripts to achieve different results.

Opening a Cypress command script

To create a scripts command to open Cypress, you need to write the script name then add the command that npm will run when the script is executed. In this case, our command to open Cypress will be embedded in a script called open. We can achieve this by adding the following command to the scripts...

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