Cypress End-to-End Testing – Getting Started

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome To The Course!

Lecture 2: What is Cypress & End-to-End Testing? And Why Should You Care?

Lecture 3: Installing & Using Cypress

Lecture 4: How Cypress Tests Are Organized & Stored

Lecture 5: Adjusting Our First Test

Lecture 6: Writing A More Realistic Test

Lecture 7: About The Course

Lecture 8: Course Resources (Slides, Code, Discord)

Chapter 2: Cypress Basics – Core Features & Syntax

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Project Setup

Lecture 3: Creating Suites & Tests

Lecture 4: Visiting Pages inside of E2E Tests

Lecture 5: Let the IDE (VS Code) Help You

Lecture 6: Selecting Elements & Evaluating Test Results

Lecture 7: Selecting By Text

Lecture 8: Implicit and Explicit Assertions

Lecture 9: get() vs find()

Lecture 10: Why You Need To Simulate User Interaction

Lecture 11: Simulating User Interaction

Lecture 12: Proper Assertions Are Key!

Lecture 13: Time To Practice!

Lecture 14: Simulating Keyboard Typing & Writing Good Assertions

Lecture 15: Checking For Partial Text

Lecture 16: Selecting Dropdown Values

Lecture 17: Cypress Tests Run In Isolation

Lecture 18: Time For More Queries

Lecture 19: Summary

Chapter 3: Diving Deeper: Element Selection, Assertions & More

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Project Setup

Lecture 3: Selecting Elements – The Best Practice Way

Lecture 4: Testing Page Navigation

Lecture 5: More on Selecting Elements

Lecture 6: Repetition and More Assertions

Lecture 7: Chaining Commands

Lecture 8: Working with Values & Aliases

Lecture 9: Getting More Direct Element Access via then()

Lecture 10: A Closer Look At then()

Lecture 11: Simulating Special Key Presses

Lecture 12: Another Example

Lecture 13: Losing & Gaining Focus

Lecture 14: Aliases In Action

Lecture 15: Using Cypress Studio For Test Evaluation

Lecture 16: Running Tests Without Cypress Studio & Working with Screenshots + Videos

Lecture 17: Changing Subjects

Lecture 18: Taking Screenshots

Lecture 19: should() instead of then()

Lecture 20: Summary

Chapter 4: Configuration & Customization

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Project Setup

Lecture 3: The Global Config File

Lecture 4: Understanding Timeouts

Lecture 5: Global vs Local Config

Lecture 6: Setting the Test Browser

Lecture 7: Configuring the baseURL

Lecture 8: Sharing Logic with Test Hooks

Lecture 9: Introducing Custom Commands & Queries

Lecture 10: Creating a Custom Command

Lecture 11: Creating a Custom Query

Lecture 12: Understanding Tasks

Lecture 13: Summary

Chapter 5: Working with Stubs, Spies, Fixtures & Manipulating the Clock

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Starting Project

Lecture 3: Understanding the Problem

Lecture 4: Understanding Stubs

Lecture 5: Creating & Using a Stub

Lecture 6: When Empty Stubs Are Not Enough

Lecture 7: Adding a Fake Stub Implementation

Lecture 8: Using Stubs Across Tests

Lecture 9: Stubs with Return Values

Lecture 10: Evaluating Stub Arguments

Lecture 11: Using Fixtures

Lecture 12: Understanding Spies

Lecture 13: Creating & Using Spies

Lecture 14: The Problem With Timers

Lecture 15: Manipulating the Clock

Lecture 16: Summary

Chapter 6: Network (HTTP) Requests, Databases & Authentication

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Starting Project

Lecture 3: Writing a First (Problematic) Test

Lecture 4: The Problem with Tests & Databases

Lecture 5: Creating a Test Database

Lecture 6: Seeding the Test Database Before Every Test

Lecture 7: Another Database-dependent Test

Lecture 8: Understanding & Using Interceptors

Lecture 9: You Can't Always Use Interceptors

Lecture 10: More Intercepting!

Lecture 11: Testing APIs with Test Requests

Lecture 12: Summary: Different Network Request Strategies

Lecture 13: Testing Authentication Flows & Asserting Cookie Values

Lecture 14: Adding a "Login" Test

Lecture 15: Creating a Reusable Login Command

Lecture 16: Accessing Interceptor Request & Response Data

Lecture 17: Summary

Chapter 7: Roundup & Next Steps