Hello, Cypress! with Kateryna Nesmyelova

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@kittyness is going to share her Cypress journey with us at TestBash New Zealand so that we’ll know how Cypress works and we can start experimenting with Cypress :grin:

If you’ve got questions for Kateryna about the talk, add them here :point_down:

Remember to :heart: questions that you like to show appreciation for others and help @jamesespie see what questions are popular to ask live.

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Cypress has certain cool features such as time-traveling, in-built api support, however, there are certain limitations such as handling multi-tab. Yes, I am aware there are workarounds but my question is: are these workarounds a correct way of testing? As an end-user, you won’t, remove href attribute

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Do you think it’s valid to compare Selenium vs Cypress?

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How are you executing your tests in parallel in a distributed machine , like Selenium, we have a Grid?Cypress has dashboard but its a paid one.

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What types of applications is Cypress good at testing? (Web, client side Fat applications, windows services, server side applications etc)

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What would you say is the biggest challenge you’ve faced with using Cypress at your company?

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Links mentioned in the talk

  1. Cypress documentation: https://docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/why-cypress.html
  2. Gleb Bakhmutov’s blog https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/ and GitHub https://github.com/bahmutov
  3. Cypress repo https://github.com/Kittyness/testapp
  4. CSS selectors https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp
  5. Stop using Page Objects https://www.cypress.io/blog/2019/01/03/stop-using-page-objects-and-start-using-app-actions/