Hasty Treat - The Future of Testing with Cypress

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the future of testing with Cypress — what it is, how to use it, and more! Deque - Sponsor Deque’s free axe browser extension helps developers instantly catch 50% of accessibility bugs while they code. It’s lightweight, easy-to-use, and has zero false positives. Get started for free at deque.com/axe. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:55 - What Is Cypress? A visual testing studio that uses a jQuery-like syntax to test your application in browser. Very modern testing solution. 07:36 - Used to be only Chrome Now available for Safari, Firefox, Edge, etc. ??? - What frameworks is it for? Literally anything that runs on a URL in the browser. Cypress just looks at a URL, executes the commands and then checks the results. Can also run on ci/cd via a headless mode. React component testing is experimental. 10:58 - Automation Cypress studio new feature that writes tests for you. 12:37 - Data Intercept + Fixtures or through plugins 15:01 - Cost? It’s free! There is a paid product called Cypress Dashboard that allows you to record tests long-term. Links Cypress bos.af Jest Better Touch Tool Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with Javascript CSS node module barbecue tips get work flows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the
0:13.5	Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West
0:19.2	Barracuda boss and Scott El Toro local to Linsky
0:25.2	Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about the future of testing and
0:33.7	Cypress those of you who have been following me on Twitter might know that I have switched all of our UI testing entirely to be Cypress
0:40.8	So I thought it'd be a need time to talk a little bit about my thoughts on it not to mention
0:44.8	I also just did a course on it. So if Cypress is very ripe in my mind right now
0:48.6	So my name is Scott to Linsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is the West balls
0:53.6	Hey, I'm excited to hear about all these updates to Cypress. We talked about it a year and a half two years ago on the testing show
1:00.6	Yeah, and it's it's come a long way since then. Yeah, I know it Cypress is really grown up
1:05.6	And all of the features that everyone has asked for they keep on delivering in in so much more. So I'm I'm really into it
1:12.4	I think it's a fantastic solution for anybody especially those of you who are
1:17.0	Potentially a little bit put off by testing or afraid of testing
1:20.8	I know afraid of testing could be like listed as like one of those things skill on LinkedIn
1:25.8	It'd be like I'm an efficient JavaScript afraid of testing like that's definitely a developer profile
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