Cypress Advantages Part-1
Amit K Verma
Helping organizations to streamline the Agile scrum and QA processes | CSM | CSPO | QA | IIT Delhi
Lets first dive into the advantages of Cypress automation tool, which is being loved by the developers and automation QAs.
There are lots of advantages of using cypress for web and api automation testing. Here we will 10 of those. I will post other 10 very soon..
1. Fast and Efficient Testing: Execution of cypress scripts are fast as compared to other available tools in the market. Faster execution gives faster results hence making the tool efficient enough to be loved by the users
2. Real Time Interactive App: Cypress app comes with cypress installation. Design your scripts then sit back and relax to observe the real time step by step execution of the s
3. Debugging: App also facilitates with the debugging help. Something failed or not worked as expected. Cypress app might give you the most helpful tips to resolve the issues.
4. Default Automatic waiting: Cypress is intelligent enough to wait for elements to load in dom, before it acts on the elements. It makes the testing more robust and reliable.
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5. User-friendly Syntax: Cypress brings the intuitive syntax, making the creation of test scripts easy. Which in turn helps in maintaining tests.
6. Bundled libraries: Cypress comes with libraries bundle such as mocha bdd, chai assertions, jquery, lodash etc.
7. CLI: Cypress do comes with Command line interface to run the commands through commands and further can be setup in devops.
8. Direct Browser Interaction: Cypress lies inside the browser to interact with the dom elements accurately. This makes the interaction of scripts and elements more real as of a user’s behavior.
9. Time-travel debugging: Cypress has another feather in its cap, which is its built-in capability of time-travel. User can simply navigate back and forth of the executed commands in the cypress app. Cypress shows the element state before and after command execution. This feature facilitates the quicker identification of the issues which further helps the testers to resolve the issues.
10. Network Calls: Cypress can listen and modify network requests and responses. Enables to perform api testing and intercepting the calls.