Cypress Test Automation For Non-Programmers

Course Description

Cypress.io is an automated test platform that provides fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. It takes the best parts of other frameworks and tools like mocha, chai and selenium and delivers a robust, easy-to-use platform. This course is specifically designed for non-programmers and will give just enough coding skills to be able to understand, modify and create from scratch automated test suites for web sites and web applications.
3 days
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Pre-requisites

This course is aimed at non programmers and assumes no programming experience.

Test Automation

What is test automation?
What are the benefits of test automation?
Understanding TDD (Test Driven Development)
What does Cypress.io do?
Demonstration of Cypress.io in action.

Enough Programming To Get Going

Automating tests requires you to create basic computer programs or scripts using the JavaScript programming language. This module will go through the basic building blocks of any programming language with particular reference to how those building blocks will be used later on when we write test automation routines.
Comments
Variables
Arrays
Functions
Objects
Conditions
Loops
Exceptions

The Node.js Ecosystem

Cypress test is part of the node.js ecosystem. This module will give a basic overview of node.js and how it is used as a platform for creating and running automated tests using Cypress.io.
What is node.js?
Creating a basic node.js project
Adding dependencies
The package.json file
Development dependencies
Creating a simple web application

Introduction to Cypress.io

Understanding End To End Testing
Unit Tests
Integration Tests
End To End Testing
Browser automation
Installing Cypress
Adding Cypress.io as a development dependency
Launching Cypress.io
Creating a first test

Basic Cypress Operations

Navigation
- Visit
Querying
- Get
- Contains
Actions
- Click
- Type
- Check/Uncheck

More JavaScript

Understanding the asynchronous nature of JavaScript
Callback functions
Iterating through a list using an asynchronous callback functions

More Cypress Operations

Traversal
Navigation
Assertions
Screenshot

Debugging

When writing any type of script it is inevitable that it may not work as expected first time. Cypress.io provides a number of debugging features to help you get your test running correctly.
Time travel
Snapshots
Page Events
Console output

Deploying Your Tests

This module can be customised to match the continuous integration environment utilised by the participants.
What is Continuous Integration?
Headless operation
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