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Cypress: Advanced Test Writing for Modern Applications

Cypress is a popular choice for test automation. This course will teach you how to deal with dynamic, asynchronous UI changes, how to modify and verify application state in your tests, and how to supercharge your Cypress tests by adding plugins.

Joost van Wollingen - Pluralsight course - Cypress: Advanced Test Writing for Modern Applications
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What you'll learn

Cypress is a very popular test automation framework for the web. In this course, Cypress: Advanced Test Writing for Modern Applications, you’ll gain an understanding of the test automation challenges you are likely to face with modern applications. First, you’ll explore how to write reliable tests for dynamic, asynchronous user interfaces. Next, you’ll discover how to modify and verify your application’s state from your tests. Finally, you’ll become familiar with Cypress’s plugin system, to extend its test capabilities. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Cypress needed to successfully implement test automation in almost any scenario.

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Joost van Wollingen - Pluralsight course - Cypress: Advanced Test Writing for Modern Applications
Joost van Wollingen

After obtaining his master's degree, Joost worked in various industries, such as e-commerce, banking and insurance. He specialises in software testing & quality, but you'll usually find him contributing wherever it's needed the most. His entire career Joost has been actively sharing his knowledge with those around him and on stage. Whether it's authoring and facilitating trainings or workshops, presentations at conferences small and large, Joost is enjoying it through and through. Joost holds a bachelor's degree in Information Science, a master's degree in Content and Knowledge Engineering, and lives in the Netherlands with his wife and two children.

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