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
Testimonials (3)
The exercises we covered in the course were quite useful and applicable to my activities at work. The doubts were resolved, and the examples shared are very helpful.
jocelin salas - BANXICO
Course - Test Automation with Selenium and Python
Machine Translated
The way technical topics were addressed in a practical manner, with real examples and an excellent attitude from the instructor.
Juan - ASECCSS
Course - Automatización de Pruebas con Selenium
Machine Translated
The patience and pace of the lecturer.
