Model Online / On-Site
Duration
Modules 5 modules

Course Objective & Scope

On modern single-page applications (React, Vue, Angular, Next.js), traditional out-of-process browser drivers often suffer from timing race conditions and slow feedback loops. Running directly inside the browser runtime, Cypress provides built-in retry-ability, native network control and time-travel debugging.

This course covers Cypress's asynchronous command queue, query chaining and assertions, intercepting and stubbing API traffic with cy.intercept, programmatic authentication with cy.session, Custom Commands, Component Testing and CI/CD integration. Participants build a fast, deterministic e2e and component test suite on a sample SPA.

Who Should Attend?

  • QA automation engineers and SDETs testing modern web applications (SPAs)
  • Frontend developers writing e2e and component tests for their own features
  • Product teams setting up fast browser checks on every pull request
  • Prerequisite: basic JavaScript/TypeScript and HTML/CSS knowledge

Key Takeaways

  • Master the Cypress command queue, subject chaining (then, wrap, aliases) and built-in retry-ability
  • Await, assert on and stub backend network calls for edge cases using cy.intercept
  • Slash suite runtimes with programmatic login and state caching via cy.session
  • Organise scalable suites using typed Custom Commands, fixtures and clean data selectors
  • Combine e2e flows with isolated Component Tests and run them in parallel in CI

Curriculum

Cypress Architecture, the Command Queue and Retry-Ability
  • How Cypress differs from WebDriver: in-browser execution, Test Runner and Time-Travel debugging
  • The asynchronous command queue (why commands are not Promises): get, find, contains, should
  • Subject management, .then() vs .should(), cy.wrap() and @alias patterns
Network Control, Spying and Stubbing with cy.intercept
  • Replacing arbitrary cy.wait(ms) calls with deterministic cy.intercept() and cy.wait('@alias')
  • Balancing real-backend e2e flows against fixture-driven API stubbing
  • Simulating network throttling, 500 server errors and empty states on demand
Authentication (cy.session), Custom Commands and State Setup
  • Bypassing repetitive UI logins with cy.request() and caching state via cy.session()
  • Testing cross-domain SSO/OAuth login flows with cy.origin()
  • Typed Custom Commands and running Node/database setup tasks with cy.task()
Cypress Component Testing and Accessibility Checks
  • Mounting and testing React/Vue components in isolation inside a real browser
  • Automated accessibility (a11y) checks with cypress-axe and testing file uploads/downloads
CI/CD Pipelines, Reporting and Flake Prevention
  • Configuring cypress.config.ts, environment variables, artefacts and Mochawesome/Allure reports
  • Official Docker images, spec parallelisation and a flake-free Cypress checklist

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