Some of the more advanced Cypress testing concepts that take your tests to the next level.

Similar to how you need a testing strategy to determine what to test, you need a data strategy for how to work with testing data.

Database Initialization and Seeding

How to run your Cypress tests in your favorite Continuous Integration providers.

Running in Continuous Integration (CI)

In this lesson you will learn how to use cy.intercept() to manipulate and test network http requests and responses.

Intercepting HTTP Requests

How to use Cypress for your API and integration tests.

API and Integration Tests

Best practices and methods for writing Cypress custom commands.

Building Custom Commands

How to run your Cypress tests in different browsers and various viewports.

Viewport and Browser Testing

Some of the most useful Cypress testing methods available that few people know about.

Cypress Methods You Need to Know

How to use real data to drive your dynamic tests.

Using Data for Dynamic Tests

Advanced Cypress Testing Concepts

The fundamentals of Cypress you must know.

How to write tests using the Arrange, Act and Assert pattern.

How to Write a Test

Cypress's architecture runs inside of the browser. This means that your tests are being executed in the same environment as your application.

Cypress Runs Tests in the Browser

It's important to understand the mechanism Cypress uses to chain commands together. This lesson will teach you how.

Command Chaining

How Cypress handles things asynchronously is often misunderstood by developers and can lead to issues later on. Find out more in this lesson.

The Asynchronous Nature of Cypress

Cypress will automatically wait until an element becomes visible, becomes enabled, or when another element is no longer covering an element.

Waiting and Retry-ability

An overview of the Cypress test runner UI.

Cypress UI Overview

Best practices and tips on how to debug failing tests.

How to Debug Failing Tests

Cypress is just JavaScript which means you can leverage 3rd party libraries and other language features within your tests.

Cypress is just JavaScript

Cypress Fundamentals

The fundamentals and testing basics you need to write great tests.

Understand the testing mindset that is necessary before you begin writing tests.

Testing is a Mindset

How to test user journeys, new features and bugs within your application.

Identifying What to Test

The differences between automated testing and manual testing.

Manual vs Automated Testing

To ship reliable software, testing should be everyone's responsibility and involve the entire team at the start of a project.

Who should be responsible for testing?

The difference between unit, integration and end to end tests.

The Testing Pyramid

Testing Foundations

How to test a simple TodoMVC app with Cypress.

How to install the TodoMVC application and get it up and running.

TodoMVC App Install and Overview

How to install Cypress E2E testing and write your first end to end test.

Installing Cypress and writing our first test

How to utilize the beforeEach hook to setup data before each test.

Setting up Data Before Each Test

How to use custom Cypress commands to simplify your test code.

How to use Cypress Commands

How Cypress Command Logs, Snapshots and Aliases work.

Cypress Command Logs, Snapshots and Aliases

Learn how to test the 'Unhappy Paths' by ensuring certain elements do not exist on the page.

Testing Your First Application

What You Will Learn:

6 Lessons