Introduction to Cypress - Prerequisites

About Cypress

Cypress is an open-source and free test automation tool, which can be used extensively in the long run.

It is mainly used for front-end test automation. This tool is mainly developed to solve the teams' issues while automating an application.

It helps to achieve the following

·      Configure tests

·      Execute tests

·      Identify errors (if any).

 

It is based on JavaScript and executes tests within the browser. It helps to develop the tests which include

·      Unit tests.

·      End-to-end tests.

·      Integration tests.

Pre-requisites

• Node.js
• IDE (Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio)
• Programming Language: JavaScript