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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