Cypress automation testing tutorial

Cypress automation testing has an intuitive command-line interface and aims to be the web app's integration and the 'framework' for the website. Cypress automation testing can be effectively utilized to trim down the test cycles. This automation testing framework can be easily setup. It has also got an in-built wait for requests feature through which the need to configure additional waits is eliminated. In this article, you will get a brief understanding of cypress automation testing.   

What is Cypress Automation testing?

Cypress is a Javascript-based front-end testing framework through which flexible and powerful tools can be easily written for web applications. Advanced testing options are enabled for both integration and unit tests, which in turn provides strategic benefits such as an intuitive dashboard experience, convenient reporting, easy test configuration etc.  

Cypress automation testing works on a real browser without using driver binaries. The application code and automated code share the same platform through which the entire application under test is in complete control.  

Setting up Cypress framework for carrying out automation: 

From the repository, the npm package should be installed and then can be configured to use Cypress.  

Following are the four steps that are required: 

Step 1: Navigate to the desired folder and then New Folder (cypressdemo) needs to be created 

Step 2: The command prompt or terminal needs to be opened inside the cypressdemo folder 

Step 3: The command "npm install cypress -save-dev" should be entered 

Step 4: After the installation, the command "npx cypress open" should be entered. 

The Cypress test runners are launched through the "npx cypress open" command, wherein the example tests can be seen.