Discover more from Cypress Testing Tips & Tricks
New Videos And Blog Posts 📺
📝 Get All Intercepted Network Calls In Cypress shows a nice little trick for getting all currently observed network calls using an alias
The syntax @alias.all
yields an array of intercepts, and you can use “regular” assertions to quickly wait for 1, 2, …, N network calls or any condition.
📝 Check URL Search Params Using Cypress shows how using built-in browser APIs makes testing a breeze. Especially, if you use the cypress-map plugin. Here is how I check the URL search parameters with automatic escaping
Simple.
As always, all my Cypress blogs and videos are automatically scraped and are searchable from https://cypress.tips/search.
AI is coming for us?
I had the privilege of working with Jason Arbon back at uTest many years ago. His take on AI for testing is a very interesting one. Here is how it starts:
Read the full post on Linkedin and the follow-up Q&A This is why I have published automation courses and even made a course about writing tests using GitHub Copilot.
Conferences And Meetups 🗣️
SquiggleConf Boston, MA
On October 3,4 I am attending a conference about developer tooling! If you want to join me, here is a $50 discount coupon GlebBFriend
The conference will be held at New England Aquarium which is exciting. I will be listening and learning.
Hungarian Test Conference, Budapest
I will be at https://hustef.hu/ October 8-10th in Budapest, Hungary. Come and see me talk about my cypress-split plugin in the presentation "Fast E2E Testing Using Cypress For Free". Plus I will teach a workshop on both Cypress and Playwright test runners. Learn how to write tests using both test runners through a series of hands-on exercises.
Maine JS, Portland, ME
My friends from the Maine JS meetup have invited me to come to Portland again to give the presentation “Writing Tests Using GitHub Copilot”. It will happen on December 10h, see the meetup page here. Free.
Taking some rest 🛶
This month I spent a week paddling a canoe in the Allagash wilderness area. No cellphone, no laptop, just the sounds of water and nature. Highly recommend.