Cypress.io — The future of test automation tool
Introduction:
As the quote says above, There’s a new test automation tool that is gaining popularity, real quick in the open-source community, and everyone’s talking about how may be an alternative to Selenium
Until now, end-to-end testing wasn’t that easy and user-friendly. It was the part developers hated most.
Not anymore!
Cypress makes setting up, writing, running and debugging tests easy. Cypress gives you the power to code as fast as possible.
Cypress is a next-generation front end testing tool for reliably testing anything built for the modern web which addresses the key pain points developers and QA engineers face when testing modern applications.
Cypress is written in JavaScript and packaged into ‘npm’ and runs on Node.js
What is Cypress?
Cypress.io is a custom implementation for selenium’s webdriver API, no need to install drivers for the specific browsers and their versions.
Rise of the test automation tools in the last 2 years:
Cypress Features:
- Front-end testing tool
- Open Source
- Unit, Integration & end-to-end testing
- Automatic waits, no need to add sleeps to your test
- Script written in JavaScript
- Framework — Mocha
- Assertion — Chai
- Architecturally different from Selenium
- Browsers driver are by default included
System requirements:
Cypress is a desktop application that is installed on your computer. The desktop application supports these operating systems:
- macOS 10.9 and above (64-bit only)
- Linux Ubuntu 12.04 and above, Fedora 21 and Debian 8 (64-bit only)
- Windows 7 and above
If using npm to install Cypress, we support:
Installation:
Three ways to install Cypress:
- Launch Browser
2. Identify Locators and Write Tests
3. Run Tests:
Read more to know the complete installation of Cypress.io.
Originally published at https://www.neovasolutions.com on April 20, 2020.
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