In earlier post you might have experienced a more sophisticated UI/Interactive report accessed via Cypress Dashboard. Since they are all cloud we must connect to Dashboard in order to view them. Consider a prerequisites for your upcoming project were you are working over a restricted network. Well t

All the environment configuration of our Cypress project will be under the Cypress.json but we can also create our own environment Even when the Environment variable are defined in the Cypress.json it will only provide priory to the environment variable provided in the command line when running s

Starting from Cypress 4.0.0 which was released on 2/6/2020, they are bringing browser support for both Firefox and Edge. When Cypress was launched test runner only supported native electron and chrome browser to run our spec file. For a long period community has been waiting Firefox support and the

In this section we will see Browser navigation, this will help us to go back and forth between webpages we wish to visit during the test. Almost all the websites these days have a sophisticated routes on which we need to navigate in order to accomplish our test, as these are very fundamental for w

As soon as we visit website these days we will be promoted with popups and alerts. These alerts are sometimes might be the exciting deals you were waiting for or might be an important alert on privacy policy updated on your favorite site. What if you have a requirement to handle these alerts!, Is

1. https://phptravels.com/demo 2. http://thedemosite.co.uk/login.php 3. http://newtours.demoaut.com/ 4. http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/ 5. URL : http://automationpractice.com/index.php This is an automated shopping website. It lets you to shop few items from the store giving us the fe

Cypress only support CSS Selector, unlike Selenium which support vast way of identifying web element. So in order to work with Cypress we must be familiar with CSS selector. I have listed down Syntax of CSS selector for MDN Web Docs source below, Basic selectors Universal selector Selects all

Test using Cypress can be only ran via Test Runner. To open Cypress Test Runner enter the below command from your project directory .\node_modules\.bin\cypress open Starting the test runner from the terminal. This will open the Test Running, but by default the Test Runner will start on the lite ver

How it works In Cypress, first our test scripts or code is wrapped as a json file and then sent to the browser drivers. This is then directly communicates and executes test on the browser as Cypress manipulates the DOM. All of its advantages over other testing framework is due to this Architectur

Cypress Dashboard is an Cloud based Test Runner which offers from free to paid service. To access this we need to have at least either of these accounts GitHub or Google. Why Cypress Dashboard ? We have to give it to Cypress that it is the most sophisticated testing tool so far when compared to Se

Cypress comes with its own API which allows users to create or override an existing cypress command. The interesting part is that we don't have to import anything as when the Test runner open these files are automatically loaded or Imported. If you wondering how to define custom command then it is

Working with Table can be tricky as we might need to handle both rows and column to arrive at the target. In this section we find and check whether the rank of Joanna Jedrzejczyk in Women's Strawweight is 4 or not. This should apply to all the website with the tables in it even if there are sever

Cypress has official announced that they will not support multiple windows or multiple tabs, they have gone saying this is an flaky practice and they don;t have any plans in the future to support them. Despite this takeoff we can use perform test on site which has these Child windows practices. In

Handling Visible and Invisible Elements These are several instance in a website where when you input a particular value the element or an part of page will be invisible. For an instance if we were to test this behavior then we can test them by applying a simple assertion using SHOULD. In this pos

In this section we how to deal with check boxes and radio button while working with the Cypress. First we will so the check, radio button and then check box nested in label. We will be using below mentioned sites during practice, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/ http

Intelligent code completion using JSON schemas is supported by default in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. All other editors will require extra configuration or plugins for JSON schema support. To set up in Visual Studio Code you can open Preferences / Settings / User Settings and add the json

When we create a project in the Cypress it creates the following folders by default, 1. Fixtures 2. Integration 3. Plugins 4. Screenshots and Videos 5. Support In order to completely understand the working of cypress we must know what are these folders and what are its purpose. Fixtures It is use

Cypress is built on Node.js based on which we are going to split this Cypress Installation into 3 ways i.e, 1. Installation of Node.js 2. Installation of VS code 3. Getting Dependent package and json creation Installation of Node.js 1. Visit the following link https://nodejs.org/en/ Download p

What is Cypress Cypress is a modern front end testing tool. The following is the official description from their docs, Cypress is a next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web. We address the key pain points developers and QA engineers face when testing modern applications.It