Automation Testing with Cypress Training Course

Day 1 – Introduction & Basics

Introduction

• Role of Cypress in the testing pyramid

• Test automation environment setup (Node LTS, npm)

• Creating a minimal Cypress project

• First “smoke” E2E test in GUI and headless mode

Core Concepts

• Cypress fundamentals, command queue, automatic retry

• Using hooks: before, beforeEach, afterEach, after

• Aliases and reusability (.as(), cy.get('@alias'))

API (Contract) Testing

• Direct API testing with Cypress (cy.request())

• API stubbing with cy.intercept() for edge cases

• Ensuring frontend-backend integration stability

Custom Cypress Commands

• Organizing repetitive actions (login, navigation) into custom commands

• Cleaner, maintainable code with reusable calls (cy.login())

Schedule: theory + demo + hands-on exercises
Prerequisites: basic JS knowledge, VSCode, Git

Day 2 – Advanced Practices & CI/CD

Building Complex Tests

• Automating full user flows

• State control with cy.intercept and cy.session

• Avoiding flaky tests, improving stability and speed

Data-Driven Testing

• Storing test data in JSON files (fixtures)

• Parameterized tests running the same logic with multiple inputs

Cypress Plugins

• Reporting: mochawesome, allure-cypress, junit-reporter

• Interactions: cypress-file-upload, cypress-real-events

• Accessibility: cypress-axe, cypress-audit

• Visual regression: cypress-image-snapshot

• Maintainability: @testing-library/cypress, cypress-plugin-tab

CI/CD with Cypress

• GitHub Actions integration

• Setting up Node.js and Cypress environment, headless execution

• Automatic test runs on push/PR

• Secure handling of secrets

Summary and conclusion