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A collection of posts related to quality engineering and automation using Cypress.

Recording a Cypress Test with Cypress Studio

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Recording a Cypress Test with Cypress Studio

Cypress Studio is tool that is packaged with Cypress, and allows you to record a Cypress test while interacting with your application.

Automagically Retry Your Flaky E2E Tests with Cypress

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Automagically Retry Your Flaky E2E Tests with Cypress

End-to-end automated tests are notorious for being flaky. If you've spent some time with automated testing you've likely seen E2E tests that that are just not predictable or consistent.

Get more detail from you Cypress API tests

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Get more detail from you Cypress API tests

The good news is that Cypress is extensible, and has a large active user community. cy-api is one of those extensions, and it puts lots of valuable API-related information at your fingertips.

Run your Cypress Tests in a Github Workflow

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Run your Cypress Tests in a Github Workflow

In my previous Cypress posts I've walked through how to get Cypress setup and running locally. To this point I haven't talked about how to run the tests in a CI pipeline. Well that all changes today!

Using Gherkin with your Cypress Tests

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Using Gherkin with your Cypress Tests

Introduction In my previous post [https://dev.to/dwwhalen/using-page-objects-in-cypress-co9] we installed Cypress, which also installed a number of Cypress sample tests. These sample tests use the Mocha syntax. In this post I'm going to talk about how to define your tests with feature files instead of Mocha. The examples

Using Page Objects in Cypress

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Using Page Objects in Cypress

Introduction Page Objects is a pattern in test automation that allow the automation engineer to encapsulate the data and methods used to support automation of a page. Typically each page of the application will have an automation class that contains data, methods, and locators needed for automation of that page.

API Testing with Cypress

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API Testing with Cypress

In this post we'll talk about using Cypress [https://www.cypress.io/] to run API tests. But what is Cypress? Cypress is an open sourced JavaScript-based test automation framework that is typically used for testing web applications that leverage modern JavaScript frameworks. If you're just getting started with Cypress, you

An Intro to Automated Testing with Cypress

An Intro to Automated Testing with Cypress

As a QE automation engineer, my responsibilities typically include building both UI and API automated tests. Over the years I have worked with a number of languages, tools, and frameworks to get that job done. For UI tests, I usually work with frameworks that automate the browser via Selenium, with