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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

Running Cypress tests

In this section, we will focus on how we can run Cypress tests on the browser. To do this, we will write test scripts that can run the tests similarly to opening Cypress scripts:

"scripts": {
"test:chrome": "cypress run –browser chrome",
"test:firefox": "cypress run –browser firefox" 
}

The preceding scripts will be used to run tests either in the Chrome browser or in the Firefox browser depending on what command the user runs on their command-line terminal. To execute the tests, you can either run npm run test:chrome to run the tests in Chrome or npm run test:firefox to execute the tests in Firefox. The first section of the command instructs Cypress to run the tests in headless mode, while the second section instructs Cypress which browser to run the tests in. Running Cypress tests is not limited to only Chrome and Firefox and can be extended to any browsers that Cypress supports, with the...

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