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; therefore, you wouldn't need to download browser drivers.

Running a Cypress testing script online is simple. LambdaTest cloud's Cypress Grid offers a quick and dependable infrastructure, which enables automatic cross-browser testing on an online browser farm comprising more than 40 browsers and OS systems. 

6 Reasons Cypress Might Be The Next Programming Language You Love

• Cypress is a JavaScript-based automation application that utilizes Node.js and runs in the browser. It was created in JavaScript and is based on Mocha and Chai. Because of this, Cypress is quick and trustworthy for testing practically any website, not just the ones with JavaScript code. 

• Cypress runs out of the box without any other requirements. Cypress does not require libraries, testing engines, servers, drivers, or wrappers. There is no configuration or additional choices beyond the basic setup of your application's environment. All you need to do is install Cypress via npm and use it like any other JavaScript library.

• Cypress allows QA engineers and product teams to create tests in JavaScript instead of learning another framework like Appium or Selenium. Cypress's script syntax is known to be easy to understand yet powerful enough for experienced testers working with other tools.

• Cypress provides the Domain Specific Language you need in your test code to organize your tests, connect to DOM objects, and avoid common pitfalls that cause race conditions and bugs.

• In Cypress, the debugging procedure is streamlined and uncomplicated. With direct access to every object, you can quickly identify application issues. When the tests run in the browser, you may immediately use Chrome DevTools to debug your application.

• Because Cypress waits for the DOM to load automatically, you don't need to implement additional waits or set up explicit or implicit holds, which makes writing tests faster and more reliable. Cypress tracks every synchronous event in your application; it knows when the page is loading and when elements send events.

Conclusion 

Since Cypress is a well-designed framework best suited for testing contemporary online applications, it provides test automation with fierce competition. However, its potential may be further maximized by pitting the Cypress testing framework against a dependable and scalable cloud-based automation grid.