Course Outline

Day 1 – Introduction & Basics

Introduction

  • Role of Cypress in the testing pyramid
  • Test automation environment setup (Node LTS, npm)
  • Creating a minimal Cypress project
  • First “smoke” E2E test in GUI and headless mode

Core Concepts

  • Cypress fundamentals, command queue, automatic retry
  • Using hooks: before, beforeEach, afterEach, after
  • Aliases and reusability (.as(), cy.get('@alias'))

API (Contract) Testing

  • Direct API testing with Cypress (cy.request())
  • API stubbing with cy.intercept() for edge cases
  • Ensuring frontend-backend integration stability

Custom Cypress Commands

  • Organizing repetitive actions (login, navigation) into custom commands
  • Cleaner, maintainable code with reusable calls (cy.login())

Schedule: theory + demo + hands-on exercises Prerequisites: basic JS knowledge, VSCode, Git

Day 2 – Advanced Practices & CI/CD

Building Complex Tests

  • Automating full user flows
  • State control with cy.intercept and cy.session
  • Avoiding flaky tests, improving stability and speed

Data-Driven Testing

  • Storing test data in JSON files (fixtures)
  • Parameterized tests running the same logic with multiple inputs

Cypress Plugins

  • Reporting: mochawesome, allure-cypress, junit-reporter
  • Interactions: cypress-file-upload, cypress-real-events
  • Accessibility: cypress-axe, cypress-audit
  • Visual regression: cypress-image-snapshot
  • Maintainability: @testing-library/cypress, cypress-plugin-tab

CI/CD with Cypress

  • GitHub Actions integration
  • Setting up Node.js and Cypress environment, headless execution
  • Automatic test runs on push/PR
  • Secure handling of secrets

Summary and conclusion

Requirements

  • An understanding of software testing

Audience

  • Software testers
 14 Hours

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