Writing Tests using Cypress design patterns

In the previous section, we learned how to use Cypress to drive the development of new features to a blog application. In this section, we will look at two design patterns to structure our Cypress code. Design patterns help teams by providing solutions to problems such as writing maintainable code or designing responsive websites. First, we will look at the Page Object Model, followed by custom commands.

Creating page objects in Cypress

The Page Object Model (POM) is a popular design pattern commonly used in Selenium test frameworks to increase readability and maintainability for end-to-end tests. The POM model consists of creating an object-oriented class representation for each page in an application, including custom methods to select and interact with various page elements. An advantage of using the POM model is abstracting away multiple lines of test code inside a single method.

Also, page objects serve as a single source of...