Robust Integration Tests With Cypress

Crafting a development environment better testing

If you are writing a moderately complex web application, eventually, you will run into difficulties that can occur when a change in one place has unintended consequences elsewhere in the application. These changes are inevitable as an application ages, and unit testing will not save you. Tests that exercise the full application’s web of dependencies are the best path to assuring success. In addition, as the application evolves, these tests need to be easy to change, and avoid failing when irrelevant implementation details change under the hood.

It has a wealth of plugins, and a commercial dashboard that makes running tests in parallel and inspecting results in real-time easy. It takes a screenshot by default on test failure, which is something that has to be manually configured for Puppeteer and friends.

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