ckenst / cypress.io.js

Playing around with Cypress

Hi there, I'm Chris 👋

• 🤖 Engineering Director
• 🔭 Maintainer of Testing Conferences
• 📫 Find me on: Twitter or LinkedIn
• ✍️ Writing at Kenst.com

A little more about me 👇:

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    "President of the Association for Software Testing",
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  Interests: ["Systems Thinking", "Test Design", "Teaching", "Bias in AI"],
  Tools: ["VS Code", "Git", "Docker", "Cypress", "WebDriverIO"],
  Websites: {
    Blog: "https://www.kenst.com",
    Conferences: "https://testingconferences.org",
    AST: "https://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/"
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cypress.io.js's Issues

Change file structure to identify tests as either local or using MVC app

Upgrade to V5

Run Cypress with single command aka containers

• Instructions: https://www.cypress.io/blog/2019/05/02/run-cypress-with-a-single-docker-command/
• Additional references:
  • https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-docker-images

Create SEO tests

Create a set of tests mainly for SEO purposes, targeted at Kenst.com

Install and run cypress tests in CircleCI

• Instructions: https://github.com/cypress-io/circleci-orb
• Additional references:
  • https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/orb/cypress-io/cypress

Create a demo project

Create a demo project for Testing Today's Web Applications with example code that does something fun and interesting.

Next Step: Testing Your App Locally

This is where I left off in my tutorial: https://docs.cypress.io/guides/getting-started/testing-your-app.html#Step-1-Start-your-server

Remove reference types

With intellisense we don't need this. As long as we have intellisense installed for code.

Refactor tests to use functions only, no classes

Then make sure everything is using page objects: https://github.com/giltayar/testautomationu-cypress-course/tree/lesson-8b/cypress/integration