PITCHME.md

☀️ Part 1: Basic tests

📚 You will learn

• cy.contains and command retries
• two ways to run Cypress
• screenshots and video recording

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• keep todomvc app running
• open Cypress from the root folder with npm run cy:open
• click on 01-basic/spec.js

/// <reference types="cypress" />
it('loads', () => {
  cy.visit('localhost:3000')
  cy.contains('h1', 'Todos App')
})

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cy.contains('h1', 'Todos App') is not working 😟

Note: This is a good moment to show how Cypress stores DOM snapshots and shows them for each step.

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Questions 1/3

• where are the docs for cy.contains command?
• why is the command failing?
  • hint: use DevTools
• can you fix this?

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Questions 2/3

• do you see the command retrying (blue spinner)?
• use timeout option to force the command to try for longer

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Cypress has 2 commands

• cypress open
• cypress run

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How to

• run just this spec cypress/integration/01-basic/spec.js in headless mode?

Hint: npx cypress run --help

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Bonus

• video recording https://on.cypress.io/configuration#Videos
• cy.screenshot command

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Fix the test

• can you fix the test?
• how would you select an element:
  • by text
  • by id
  • by class
  • by attributes

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What kind of tests

• discussion: what would you test in the TodoMVC app?

Note: Longer tests, adding items then deleting one for example. Adding items via GUI and observing communication with the server. Adding items then reloading the page.