Cypress has become the preferred way of doing UI testing of Angular apps by many Angular experts. It offers great improvements over Selenium-based testing tools by making the testing experience more like a real user using the built-in retry mechanism of assertions and commands (eg. click on the element), a user-friendly GUI which makes it …
As a consultant, I normally work with companies between 3-12 months at a time and then I am off to the next gig. Most often, I am hired as a “hands-on” coach, were I am called in for an important and urgent project to make stuff happen within a very tight deadline. This requires that …
In this blog post, I will cover why I went from using Protractor to start using Cypress for end-to-end testing. We will look at the flaws in Protractor and how Cypress is fixing them as well as looking into the 7 steps to Cypress e2e testing success. Let’s get started! If you have been working …
Why I Moved from Protractor to Cypress and the 7 Steps to Cypress E2E Testing Success Read More »
It seems that a lot of developer teams fall in one of these two categories for end-to-end testing: Have no end-to-end tests because they are too hard to create Have too many end-to-end tests, making many fulltime jobs to maintain Either one of these is not practical as the first one is causing the team …
End-To-End Testing with Protractor: A Pragmatic Guide to Get Started in Your Team Read More »
When doing practices like continuous delivery and continuous integration, testing becomes a more important part of the work because it’s unreasonable to regression test all possible effects of a release manually. When doing five releases on a workday, you don’t get to do a full manual regression testing on every release as that would easily …
The Complete Guide to Angular Testing and a Weird Trick for Faster Unit Tests (2020) Read More »