Episode 3: Dan Wahlin on End to End Testing with Cypress.io

Recording date: 2018-09-13

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(0:03:30) Ward asks Dan when there are too many end to end tests

(0:04:23) Dan talks about how he got into end to end tests

(0:06:42) Ward talks about how he approaches testing a component

(0:07:50) Dan talks about how deep routes in javascript frameworks help end to end testing

(0:10:00) John asks Dan about how testing workflows can be a sweet spot for end to end tests

(0:10:47) John asks Dan how he uses id vs class in elements to locate what he wants to test

(0:12:20) Dan mentions how he uses css selectors to locate what he wants to test

(0:12:50) Ward says don't drill down through your HTML to locate elements for testing

(0:15:47) Dan talks about his experience with Protractor and Selenium https://www.seleniumhq.org/

(0:16:26) Dan talks about how he uses Cypress.io https://www.cypress.io/

(0:18:40) Dan talks abot how Cypress.io doesn't work in all browsers

(0:19:10) Ward mentions how he uses Test Cafe http://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/

(0:19:50) Dan discusses his pain points for testing child routing without end to end tests

(0:21:00) Dan says he wrote his first 5 or 10 tests with Cypress within an hour

(0:21:36) Ward says end to end tests can be more fragile and slower than unit tests

(0:21:56) Ward says his large team uses end to end tests because it makes sure that nobody breaks anybody else

(0:24:25) Dan says Cypress is pretty fast to run

(0:24:58) Dan says he uses TypeScript a lot

(0:25:20) John asks Dan "how fast is fast?"

(0:27:00) John asks Dan to clarify how he handles authenticating during an end to end test

(0:28:30) Ward asks Dan how if he opens the browser for each test, or once for the entire sequence of tests

(0:30:00) Dan disucsses how he uses containers for testing

(0:21:40) Edge browser https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge

(0:23:37) Sauce Labs https://saucelabs.com/

(0:31:28) John talks about security expert Brian Clark https://twitter.com/_clarkio

(0:32:10) Ward discusses how animations can cause tests to run slower

(0:33:30) Dan says Cypress is good at responding in github

(0:34:03) Cypress on twitter https://twitter.com/Cypress_io

(0:34:14) Cypress github issues https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues

(0:38:25) Dan talks about Electron https://electronjs.org/

(0:39:00) Dan talks about time travel in cypress's test tools

(0:42:03) Cross browser testing in Cypress.io https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/310

(0:49:00) John asks Dan about how you can use npm install for cypress

(0:50:19) Dan talks about how it works (Cypress.io) https://www.cypress.io/how-it-works/

(0:51:10) Cypress Docs https://docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/why-cypress.html

(0:53:47) Someone to follow: Brandon Roberts https://twitter.com/brandontroberts

(0:54:05) Someone to follow: Tracy Lee https://twitter.com/ladyleet and https://www.thisdot.co/labs

(0:55:00) Someone to follow: Netanel Basal https://twitter.com/NetanelBasal and https://github.com/datorama/akita

(0:55:48) Someone to follow: Alyssa Nicoll https://twitter.com/AlyssaNicoll

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Wahlin Consulting (https://codewithdan.com)