Implementing End-to-End Tests with Cypress
Explore how to implement comprehensive end-to-end tests using Cypress for single-page applications. Learn to install and configure Cypress, integrate the Cypress Testing Library, manage multi-origin issues with Auth0, and debug test failures effectively. By the end, you'll understand how to automate testing scenarios such as signing in and submitting questions in your React frontend.
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Cypress is an end-to-end testing tool that works really well for single-page applications (SPAs) like ours. Cypress can run the whole application, simulate a user interacting with it, and check the state of the user interface along the way. So, Cypress is ideal for producing end-to-end tests on a SPA.
We are going to implement an end-to-end test for signing in and asking a question.
Getting started with Cypress
Cypress executes in our frontend, so let’s carry out the following steps to install and configure Cypress in our frontend project:
1. We’ll start by installing cypress from the Terminal:
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