Marie Cruz
Marie is a software tester and also a tech blogger at testingwithmarie.com where she talks about testing and test automation in general. Currently, she works as a Developer Advocate for k6.io
A Beginner's Guide to Testing with Cypress
Unit
Integration
UI
High Maintenance
Slow
Difficult
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Test Pyramid?
Cheap
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Testing...
Everyone knows that Test Automation is important but...
"We don't have time to write UI tests"
"Writing automated tests slows us down"
"We have a tight deadline so we need to release ASAP"
"I don't know how to use Selenium"
"I have a lot of tickets to test manually"
"Tests are so flaky"
"How do you debug it?"
"Setup is difficult"
"Let's leave it to the SDETs. It's their job"
"I don't understand the error messages"
UI/E2E testing should also be as easy as writing unit tests
"The Web has evolved. Finally, testing has too."
What is Cypress?
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A tool which simulates browser actions like a real user.
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Provides an easy way for Developers and QAs to write tests.
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Great alternative to Selenium, but built differently.
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Tests are run directly inside the browser
How is Cypress different?
Why use Cypress?
Easy to Setup
Easy to run tests
npm i -g cypresscypress run
cypress openVisual UI Test Runner
Cross browser support as of v4.0.0
Clear error messages
Faster Debugging
Cypress v4.6
Excellent Documentation
Extensive list of plugins
- Accessibility testing? cypress-axe
- Gherkin syntax? cypress-cucumber-preprocessor
- Visual testing? cypress-image-snapshots or Applitools
.. and much more here https://docs.cypress.io/plugins
Now, let's write our first Cypress test.
Are there limitations?
- No support for multiple tabs.
- No support for visiting more than 1 domain.
- Iframe support limited
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But.. workarounds are documented here.
https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/trade-offs.html
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Additional Resources
Any questions?
A Beginner's Guide to Testing with Cypress
By Marie Cruz
A Beginner's Guide to Testing with Cypress
Lunch and learn (News UK tech community) where we will talk about what Cypress is and how we can write our first automated test with Cypress.
