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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By default, Cypress watches for file changes and reloads the tests immediately when a file change is detected. This only happens if Cypress is running. The Cypress auto-reload feature comes in handy because you do not need to rerun the tests once you've made changes to their test files.

With the auto-reload feature, it is possible to have instant feedback and understand whether their changes were successful or whether their tests are failing. Due to this, this feature allows you to save time that would have otherwise been used for debugging tests or checking whether the changes that were made fixed the problem.

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