Cypress Overview

Testing is a game of finding what others could not see or detect. This is an exciting game till you start feeling boredom when it become monotonous. Doing same tasks repeatedly could make one overlook the things and miss the important bugs.

In such situations, team start looking for doing it by the one who does not feel and that is called automation testing tools. Market is full of Automation testing tools, which are powerful and well established. Some of the tools are complex to setup & use, some lacks the required important features and others are highly paid.

I believe here Cypress came as a rescuer for most of the companies. It came into the picture in 2014 but available for very limited companies. It was commercialized in 2018 with a slow start. In as year, it started gaining some popularity. Though it was not at its best but it never looked back.

Cypress.io is free, open-sourced, very easy to understand and ready to use automation tool. Cyress is free and can be integrated with other tools to get results. Cypress by default bundled with mocha, chai, jquery libraries. Cypress also comes with Dashboard with lots of features, which comes with subscription.

Today Cypress is wonderfully leading testing tool for both dev and qa. Developers use this tool for unit testing however QAs use this for end-to-end web automation. As cypress undoubtedly the most popular tool however, it do comes with pros and cons.

Despite of all the cons, it is still the powerful one with loads of features helping software teams which is resulting in more than 50 lakhs (5M) downloads everyday (as per npm trends).

Stay tuned in to know more about end-to-end automation testing using cypress.

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