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Cypress: PageObjects using inheritance

Scenario:

  • Your web site is deployed on several countries. The behaviour of the page you want to test (e.g. sign up) is mostly the same across countries, however some business rules change per country.
  • You are using the PageObjects pattern to encapsulate the details of each page. You want to avoid duplicated code.
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Pipeline triggering pipeline on GitLab

Usually when configuring a GitLab pipeline (.gitlab-ci.yml) you only care about steps in your own pipeline. Sometimes however, you may want to trigger other pipelines (of other repositories) as a step of your own pipeline.

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Cypress Sapling (automation template)

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No need to start with the seed – plant the sapling!

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How to build a Docker image ready to run Cypress tests

My team decided to build a Docker image that contained Cypress, dependencies and all our end-to-end (E2E) tests.

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Automation prioritisation using Risk Mapping

Scenario: My team wanted to write more automated checks, but we had too many features to cover and not enough time. We had to prioritize what to test… but how to do it objectively?