Cypress Website Testing - Javascript for Frontend Testing
Tags: javascript, cypress, programming, devops
Published: 2022-11-30 11:30:14

With Cypress website testing has reached a new level. The modern Javascript Testing Framework has made it to a remarkable spread especially in the area of e-commerce. That is the reason why it is now also in the offer of TESTIFY - Agency for Testing. We always say: "the right software for the right purpose". A strong development tool, asynchronous execution and stylish MP4 videos have convinced us. This article is not another Cypress tutorial, it is about features that convinced us as the team behind TESTIFY. They offer an optimal complement to our modular Codeception tests, especially when we work with frontend development teams.

**Cypress Website Testing for Ecommerce with Shopware and Magento live on YouTube**

We had an appointment with Andreas Mautz for an NCA Meetup as a live coding session on YouTube. Together we are working in Corona times with Visual Studio Code and the Live Share Plugin for software quality and current know-how. This time it was about a big overview of website testing and modern software development with PHP, Symfony, Magento and the Sulu CMS. The setup from the prominent Magento agency from Cologne is really strong. The community call for participation was also followed by Ramona. She is a test developer for Cypress IO at Shopware. She is passionate about website testing and has a lot of experience in the ecommerce sector. Professional customers who don't want to risk anything rely on reliable tests. It's all about business models and existences. The website is the driving force for the company and not irrelevant.

**Pageobject, GitLab, Mailcatcher - Enterprise Cypress IO Testing for big agencies**

Illustrating complex tests for large user stories is not a job that can be done casually by a working student. Automated tests are also software that needs to be developed professionally. In this way, the work here stays efficient and sustainable. To test the auto-completion of a search is one thing. A user registration process is quite another. An email link must be clicked here for verification. To do this, the correct login data can be used to access the sent mail via a Mailcatcher API. For even more complex registration flows there might even be a manual release via an administrator. For these kinds of tests it is important to use object oriented programming (OOP). In this way you can separate the design, executing functions and the test flow from each other. Otherwise it is not possible to understand the complex structure, capture it quickly and maintain it in the future. And this is very important here, because tests that do not work will be stopped as a last consequence. This is extremely risky and dangerous. With Cypress.IO you can work very well with PageObjects and also outsource functions, steps and methods to services. With further Javascript Libraries also Mailcatcher can be controlled and read out. All of this comes together in the GitLab pipeline. With TESTIFY we offer the concrete know-how, pass it on with pleasure and set it up for customers in their own or our infrastructure.

**Budget Website Testing - Damage, Manual Testing Effort and Resources vs. Automated Testing**

A question that often comes up is at exactly what project size automated tests are worthwhile. In fact, tests pay off extremely quickly. If you consider the costs for bugs in the live system, the manual testing effort and the tied-up resources, it is a very huge testing budget. You really don't need a lot of time for testing if you have a good experience in it. However, automated tests not only generate money, they also bring high performance and reliability. This is a real USP, especially for agencies in relation to their customers. Everything can be produced faster, more efficiently and with significantly better quality. Manual testing quickly reaches its limits, even after implementing just a few features. Who tests everything completely all the time? At the busy times of developers, they only check a current implementation on the local system. And then just assume that it will just work on others. This causes unnecessary stress and takes the joy out of the work. The consequences are guaranteed.

**Automated testing is an important software and needs know-how and maintenance**

When talking to developers, business leaders, project managers and decision makers, the idea comes up again and again that employees who are not programmers could do the creation and implementation of the tests. This is completely wrong and also a too low value for this important work. The TESTIFY team consists of developers who have specialized in this field for several years. Because tests should become a reliable tool in the release process and above all find real bugs. In Cypress.IO as well as with the Codeception Framework a complex object-oriented programming OOP is used. And this requires know-how, passion and a high passion for diligence. Because running the tests over and over again in development simply takes a lot of time. Therefore it is important to work directly and correctly. Otherwise it simply takes far too long and is not great.