A quick walkthrough on how to use data from Excel spreadsheets or CSV files, in order to dynamically generate multiple Cypress tests. We are going to use a 2 column table witht username & password for our example, but in reality this could be any data. We have the following table in csv & xlsx format. username| password User1 | Password1 User2 |Password2 User3 |Password3 User4 |Password4 User5 |Password5 User6 |Password6 User7 |Password7 User8 |Password8 User9 |Password9 User10 |Password10…

Currently working Browsers & Modes Chrome Headed — Cypress UI /Cypress CLI There are a considerations for automating your web application with Cypress, that you may come across, which may lead you to the Cypress Web Security Docs or trawling through Cypress raised issues for potential workarounds/solutions. Problems you may…

In previous posts, I have spoken about Pact.io. A wonderful set of tools, designed to help you and your team develop smarter, with consumer-driven contract tests. We use Jest at work to test our TypeScript code, so it made sense to use Jest as our testing framework, to write our…

I’ve been using Cypress for front-end testing for the last year, which we have been executing in our CI pipeline with CircleCI. CircleCI offers slack notifications for builds, but it doesn’t offer the ability to customise the Slack notifications with build metadata. …

So I’ve been using Cypress for a while now to test our apps, it’s an incredible testing tool, with many features developers will feel at home with and providing incredibly fast and detailed feedback which remote-browser tools cannot compete with. However there has been a bone of contention for some…

Dockerised Pact Broker — Secure Implementation Background & Aim The cool guys and girls over at Dius offer a dockerised implementation of the Pact-Broker for free! I know, amazing, right? You can get it right now here However out of the box, the Docker solution is not secure. There is an example SSL configuration, utilising nginx as a reverse…

Some simple command-line tricks borrowed from the land of devOps to help you analyse logs and gain useful insight. — I’m under attack! Or rather, my EC2 instance is. ( A virtual machine running Ubuntu, hosted in AWS ) It’s not a mega worry for me, as it is just a sandbox for testing/development of home projects. …

When I started a new job a few months ago. I was given a MacBook Pro 15", with the infamous touchbar. I’ve eventually stopped lamenting about the loss of a physical escape key, and have employed some tips & tricks to make it a bit more useful. No touchbar? touché my friend If you don’t…

Reading time:- 10 mins Follow along @ https://github.com/YOU54F/react-ts-testing-example Consider the following statements that you might come across as a tester on a web app project. Must be compatible with latest browser versions Must be compatible with mobile Pretty vague right? There are lots of browsers, and lots of versions. My…