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After a test case is run on Cypress, we need to debug and understand the logs in case of a failure. Cypress has the feature to provide information to the user on what incident took place before and after the failure had happened.The above screenshots show a full log of the test cases executed with pass/ fail results. If we investigate more into the step by clicking on it, the element on which an action has been performed gets highlighted with a red circle. For example the type command in the screenshot.On further investigation we found out that we have ... Read More

Cypress has a list of common assertions that can be applied to any element on the browser. Assertions are the checkpoints that confirm if a test step of the automated test case passed or failed. Thus it checks the expected state of the application under test.Cypress bundles the Chai, JQuery and Sinon libraries for assertions. Some of the assertions are associated with the element along with the parent command and cannot be used as a standalone command. For example, should().However there are some assertions which act upon directly on the elements and not dependent upon other commands. For example, expect(). ... Read More

Apart from the css selector that Cypress uses for unique identification of elements, there is a Cypress plugin which automatically provides the css for each element. This plugin is called Open Selector Playground and comes with the Cypress Test Runner.This plugin appears in the left upper section of the Test Runner window. We need to click on that and next spy on the element that we want to identify. On spying on that element, css selector value gets populated by default.To identify the element, spy on that element. Please note the css value gets populated as #gsc-i-id1 along with the ... Read More

Cypress has to identify elements on the page to perform actions on them. The unique identification of the elements is done in Cypress with the help of jQuery selectors which is basically derived from css selectors.Other automation tools like Selenium supports locators like id, name, classname, link text, partial link text, xpath and css selector.The rules for writing css selector are listed below −With the help of class name attribute. The selection of elements based on the unique class name is done with the help of (.) symbol. The customized css expression should be (.classname).Let us consider the below html ... Read More

Cypress supports Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Electron browsers for running the test cases. Cypress automatically bundles the Electron browser once we download it in our machines.The browsers get updated with newer versions regularly. To match with this, Cypress also fixes issues in the latest versions of the released browsers. However with each Electron browser version, Cypress is thoroughly tested and all test cases are expected to pass.While running the test case from the test runner, we have to choose the browser in which we want to run from the dropdown appearing from the upper right corner of the Test ... Read More

Once Cypress installation is done and the test runner is successfully set up we shall create a JavaScript file under the examples folder. This comes under the integration folder provided by the Cypress framework template.In order to create a Cypress test, we need to follow any of the Javascript testing frameworks like Jasmine or Macha. We have to implement our Cypress test and make it runnable with the help of these frameworks.Mocha framework gets by default bundled with the Cypress installation. We shall follow the rules listed below as supported by Mocha or Jasmine framework −First we should have a ... Read More

Cypress Test Runner is one of the important features in this tool. A test runner is basically the entry to start any test case execution with Cypress. While executing each step in our test case Cypress allows us to monitor the running of the commands on the application under test.As we finished installation of Cypress, there comes a suggestion from the tool on the terminal −You can open Cypress by running − node_modules/.bin/cypress openNext we shall run the command node_modules/.bin/cypress open from the project path. On running this command, the user shall be notified that Cypress is being executed first ... Read More

To do Cypress installation, first of all we need to download Node as to work with the Javascript tool we need to have Node in our system.Next we need to visit the official website − https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and download as per system requirements.For a windows system, we just need to proceed the steps one by one. It shall be stored in the Program files. We need to set the path of the node home in the environment variables.Next for working on Cypress, we need to have an editor on our system. We can download Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor to write ... Read More

A cypress architecture is described in the below diagram.Majority of the automation testing tools like Selenium perform by executing from outside the browser and running remote commands through the network. Cypress has a different functionality altogether.Cypress is sitting on the browser itself. In the background of Cypress, there exists the Node.js server. The Node server and the Cypress interacts constantly, adjusts and executes actions in support of each other.Thus Cypress has access to both the front and back end of the application. This helps it to act on the real time incidents on the application at the same time execute ... Read More

Cypress is the future tool for testing front end modern web applications. It aims to overcome the hurdles that the engineers and developers face while testing web applications based on React and AngularJS. It is a quick, effortless and dependable tool for testing any applications that run on browsers.Cypress is commonly compared with Selenium. But there are a lot of differences between Cypress and Selenium in terms of architecture and foundation. Cypress is targeted for the purposes listed below −Unit TestingIntegration TestingEnd to End flow TestingThus Cypress is used to test a wide range of applications that are operational in ... Read More