Cypress is a next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web. We address the key pain points developers and QA engineers face when testing modern applications.
We make it possible to:
- Set up tests
- Write tests
- Run tests
- Debug Tests
Cypress is most often compared to Selenium; however Cypress is both fundamentally and architecturally different. Cypress is not constrained by the same restrictions as Selenium.
This enables you to write faster, easier and more reliable tests.
If you’re using npm to install Cypress:
- Node.js 10 and above
We need to install Cypress:
npm install cypress --save-devThis will install Cypress locally as a dev dependency for your project.
Make sure that you have already run npm init or have a node_modules folder or package.json file in the root of your project to ensure cypress is installed in the correct directory.
We can run our tests with Cypress in two ways:
- Cypress Runner Open: It is a UI where you can run all the tests.
.\node_modules\.bin\cypress open- By command line: It is the way we will use in the CI. For example:
npm run test:loginIn package.json are all the scripts to run the tests in different browsers.