Automation is one of the challenges which Testers are facing every day and still most of us are unable to build a reliable script and create an environment where we can easily debug and resolve the issue, capture screenshots/videos of the entire flow, control the execution speed, store execution reports, handle flaky cases, and this list goes on and on.

We invest a lot of time to build the perfect framework as per our needs and we still end up scrapping it after a couple of years. So, I started looking for a tool that can take care of all the ad-hoc tasks and I can solely focus on adding test cases to my suite, and soon I stumbled upon Cypress.

Cypress is a tool that helps us to write Unit, Integration, and End to End test cases for UI and API. So it can be used by a Developer or a Tester.

Cypress is bundled with features like

• Time Travel
• Debug Capabilities
• Automation Waiting
• Spy/Stub API requests
• Inbuilt screenshot and video capturing capabilities
• Supporting cross-browser execution
• Controlling browser resolution and much more 🙂

In this workshop, we will explore some of the Cypress features which are required to write stable automation scripts. We will be using Javascript as our base language and Mocha for writing test cases.

Outline:

• Creating test cases to interact with different UI elements and make API calls
• Configuring Properties and Environment variables
• Executing scripts on multiple environments
• Spying/Stubbing XHR requests
• Externalizing test data using fixtures
• Integrating execution reports with Cypress Dashboard
• Running scripts on multiple browsers