Test Automation With Cypress Intermediate

Setting up the local environment with Docker Preview 08:35

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to start the application under test (AUT) using Docker

• Some functionalities of the AUT (e.g., changing password, login, access token creation, and addition of an SSH key)

Test project setup with Cypress Preview 14:33

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to clone a git project

• How to initialize a node project using NPM (node package manager)

• How to configure git to ignore files and directories

• How to install and initialize a test automation project with Cypress

• Understanding the basics of the package.json and package-lock.json files

• How to configure a baseUrl with Cypress

• How to use variables to keep sensitive data protected and reusable

Note: In recent versions of Cypress (8.x.x+) it may be necessary to set the property chromeWebSecurity: false in the cypress.json file since when using cy.visit() Cypress redirects from http:// localhost to https://localhost.

Basic GUI tests Preview 31:24

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to create simple GUI tests for the functionalities of login, logout and project creation

• How to structure tests in an organized and standardized way (describe, it, and beforeEach)

• An alternative to fixtures (the faker library)

• How to create custom commands

• How to run a single test in both interactive and headless modes

Intermediate GUI tests Preview 10:07

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to create GUI tests for the functionality of issue creation (functionality that depends on a project creation)

• The problems of doing everything via GUI

API testing Preview 15:19

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to create API tests for the functionalities of project and issue creation

• How to organize custom commands for API calls

• How to use the access token

• cy.request (method, url, body)

• Dependencies between API custom commands

Optimizing GUI tests using API calls Preview 05:07

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to optimize GUI tests using API calls for the creation of test pre-conditions

• How this approach helps on test speed and independence

Tests with many pre-conditions Preview 16:14

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to create complex GUI tests for the functionalities of labeling an issue and adding a milestone to an issue

• The importance of using API calls for the creation of the state in the application for tests that require many pre-conditions (project, issue, label, and milestone creation)

• The importance of testing via GUI only once

Executing commands at the operating system level Preview 11:10

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to create tests that interact with the application in the operating system level for the functionality of git clone

• How to run assertions on the content of a file

Running all tests Preview 10:50

In this lesson you will learn:

• How to run all tests in headless mode using the npm test script

• How to run all tests in interactive mode

  1. Cross-browser testing (Chrome, Chrome Canary, Firefox, Edge, Electron)

• How to turn off the container

Next steps Preview 07:51

In this class will be discussed:

• Practice leads to perfection, and so, I suggest you explore the AUT to practice the new learnings for other functionalities

• Data clean up for each test (GUI or API?) Or, would it be worth starting a new and clean Docker image for every execution?

• Tests’ parallelization

• Other uses for cy.exec()

• Eliminating the need for GUI login for all tests (e.g.: Mattermost)

• Eliminating the need of a real server for API calls

• Another sample project (GitLab Cypress)