Cypress Tutorial (Part 1) - The Basics
Cypress is an easy-to-use, full-featured, open-source, end-to-end testing framework for web applications. It integrates seamlessly with the frontend frameworks you use daily and provides 100% coverage of your web application's UI. Cypress is cross-browser compatible, which means you can run tests in remote browsers using HTML simulation or real browsers like Chrome and Firefox. It provides a very clear API for developers to write code and make assertions against their applications. While Selenium requires a good understanding of the underlying browser, Cypress makes it easier for front-end developers who use JavaScript daily to automate their tasks. For apps created with React and AngularJS, Cypress is a testing framework that seeks to address the difficulties of automated front-end testing. It is a quick, simple, and trustworthy method for running these programs through their intended browser contexts. Contrary to Selenium, Cypress runs tests on an actual browser instance; ther...