Frontend End-to-End Testing with Cypress

Gain insights into Cypress, a fast, reliable testing tool. Discover its basics, create robust test cases, and enhance front-end quality with advanced concepts and accessibility integration.

Beginner

34 Lessons

2h 10min

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into Cypress, a fast, reliable testing tool. Discover its basics, create robust test cases, and enhance front-end quality with advanced concepts and accessibility integration.

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This course includes

9 Quizzes

This course includes

9 Quizzes

Course Overview

Cypress, an end-to-end testing framework, has become a popular choice among front-end developers to test their applications with a fast, easy-to-use, and reliable testing tool. It allows you to test your applications with a fast, easy-to-use, and reliable testing tool. It can help you improve your site by capturing bugs before they reach production. In this course, you'll start off with the basics of Cypress, learn why Cypress is a great choice, how it works, and how you can create robust test cases with i...Show More

What You'll Learn

Learn how to improve the quality of your frontend application with E2E testing

Learn how to create robust test cases using Cypress

Learn how to integrate axe into Cypress to improve the accessibility of your website

What You'll Learn

Learn how to improve the quality of your frontend application with E2E testing

Course Content

What is Cypress?

Get familiar with Cypress as an innovative and robust end-to-end testing tool.

A Short Introduction to Cypress

Why Cypress?

Discover the logic behind using Cypress for end-to-end web application testing.

Who Should Use Cypress?Quiz

How Cypress Works

Examine Cypress's unique features, testing approach, and how it enhances JavaScript testing.

What Makes Cypress Different?The Testing Approach Quiz

The Features of Cypress

Grasp the fundamentals of Cypress features, including time travel, spies, stubs, clocks, and cross-browser testing.

Time Travel Spies, Stubs, and Clocks Consistent Results Cross-Browser Testing Quiz

The Structure of Cypress

Take a closer look at Cypress structure with fixtures, plugins, support, and flexible configuration.

Fixtures and Integration Plugins and Support Configuration Quiz

Writing Your Very First Test Case

5 Lessons

Follow the process of organizing Cypress tests, interacting with elements, and using aliasing and conditional testing.

Integrating Axe

3 Lessons

Practice using Axe with Cypress for effective automated web accessibility testing and issue detection.

Running Your Test Cases

3 Lessons

Step through running test cases with Cypress, using a visual interface and built-in retries.

Debugging Cypress

3 Lessons

Get started with debugging Cypress tests using tools like DevTools and cy.pause.

10.

What's Next?

2 Lessons

Explore community resources, provide feedback, complete quizzes, and apply your Cypress skills.

11.

Appendix

3 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of setting up projects and exploring resources for Cypress.

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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