exc304 / cypress-mot-project-2

Ministy of Testing - Marie Drake course for Introduction to Cypress

cypress-mot-project

My imperfect cypress test automation repo. Brought to you by the tutorial from Marie Drake available on The Ministry of Testing website.

Getting Started

These instructions assume you're using a recent macOSX. If you're using Windows, you may want to look into using Windows Subsytem for Linux 2 as the basis for your work.

Pre-requisites

• Install Node.js and NPM
• Install Visual Studio Code

Install Project Dependencies

Creates .zshrc file if one is not already present

touch ~/.zshrc

Download and install Node.js

Install Cypress version 8.4.0

npm i -D cypress@8.4.0

Cypress Test Runner

To open up the Cypress Test Runner and run the example test, execute npx cypress open on the project root. This will load up the Cypress Test Runner and add directory dependencies.

Running Tests Headlessly

To run the tests on the command line, execute npx cypress run