The document discusses writing Cypress tests without Cucumber. It provides motivation for using Cucumber but explains you can achieve similar benefits without it. The agenda includes discussing Cucumber, Cypress demonstrations, and how to implement features like Given/When/Then statements, iterating over data lists, and running tagged tests without Cucumber. Key takeaways are that the testing code can be simpler, tests can still be descriptive, JavaScript knowledge allows powerful tests, and tagged tests can run via a plugin. Questions from the audience are invited.

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by Walmyr Filho
WRITING CYPRESS TESTS
WITHOUT CUCUMBER
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2. What we'll see
today
agenda
- Motivation
- Why do we use Cucumber?
- Cypress
- Demo time
- Given/When/Then
- Lists of data
- Tags
- Key take-aways
- Q&A
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3. 1 - HOW DO I INTEGRATE CYPRESS WITH THE CUCUMBER PLUGIN?
2 - CAN YOU HELP ME WITH AN ERROR IN THE CUCUMBER INTEGRATION?
3 - HOW DO I ITERATE OVER A LIST IN A CYPRESS TEST IF I'M NOT
USING CUCUMBER?
4 - HOW DO I RUN TESTS BASED ON TAGS WITHOUT CUCUMBER?
people usually ask me
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4. I CAN EASILY DO THAT WITH CUCUMBER
for the last two questions,
they usualy say
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5. IF THEY STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO CONFIGURE IT (QUESTION 1),
AND HOW TO DEAL WITH ERRORS WHEN THEY HAPPEN(QUESTION 2)?
But what's the point...
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6. DESCRIBING HOW THE APP SHOULD BEHAVE IN A LANGUAGE THAT BOTH
THE BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL TEAMS CAN UNDERSTND.
cucumber helps with ...
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7. But Here's
the thing.
You can have all benefits of Cucumber...
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Without using it!

8. What's Cypress
- A powerful testing automation
framework for anything that runs in
the browser
- An open-source tool with a huge
community around it
- A tool that brings you joy while
using it!
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9. demo time
FELL FREE TO FOLLOW ALONG
Just open your terminal and let's code!

10. Key take-aways
WITHOUT CUCUMBER
- The testing code gets simpler
- We can still have descriptive test cases
(using the key-words Given/When/Then)
- We can talk the same "language" as the
developers (JavaScript)
- By knowing how to use JavaScript, we can
have tests that iterate over lists to save
us lines of code
- By using the cypress-grep plugin, we can
run tests by their tags
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Questions?
I'D LOVE TO ANSWER THEM.
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