cypress-and-percy-course

Repository for the basic course of visual regression testing with Cypress and Percy, by Walmyr Filho.

Lesson 1

Initial setup

Lesson's content

- Git clone - [email protected]:wlsf82/cypress-and-percy-course.git
- Initializing a Node.js project - npm init -y
- Updating the test script - percy exec -- cypress run
- Installation - npm i cypress @percy/cypress -D
- Cypress' files and directories structure - npx cypress open
- Updating the .gitignore file - cypress/screenshots/ and cypress/videos/
- Configuring Percy to work with Cypress - https://docs.percy.io/docs/cypress
- Cypress docs - https://docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/why-cypress.html
- Percy docs - https://docs.percy.io/docs

Lesson 2

Percy.io

Lesson's content

- Creating an account on percy.io
- Creating a project
- Exporting the project token

Lesson 3

The first test

Lesson's content

- Getting to know the application under test
- Creating the first visual regression test with Cypress & Percy
- Running the first test
- Approving the snapshot on Percy's dashboaard

Lesson 4

Testing an invalid email address

Lesson's content

- Writing the test
- Running the test
- Approving the snapshot on percy.io

Lesson 5

Testing filling all the mandatory form fields

Lesson's content

- Writing the test
- Running the test
- Approving the snapshot on percy.io

Lesson 6

Testing the selection of a VIP ticket

Lesson's content

- Writing the test
- Running the test
- Approving the snapshot on percy.io

Lesson 7

Testing dynamic content

Lesson's content

- The problem of dynamic content in visual regression testing
- Testing successfully submitting the form
- Running the test and aproving the snapshot on percy.io
- Re-running the tests and getting a false-negative result
- Dealing with dynamic content - https://docs.percy.io/docs/percy-specific-css
- Re-running the tests and approving the new snapshot on percy.io
- Re-running the tests without false-negative results

Lesson 8

Ending

Lesson's content

- Project docs - updating the README.md file
- Learnings summary
- Going beyond - #ReadTheDocs

A course created by Walmyr Filho.

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