qaautomationengr / api_jsonplaceholder.typicode

Cypress API test framework

This is an example repo on how to use Cypress to run API integration tests against http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/

Libraries and plugins used

• Cypress
• cy-api plugin

Dependencies

To run the tests, please ensure you have the following installed:

• Node
• NPM

Why use Cypress

• No other dependencies required to run tests as Cypress contains everything you need.
• Setup is minimal
• Cypress supports BDD and TDD style assertion syntax so this would already be familiar to engineers who have used other JavaScript testing libraries.
• Cypress Test Runner useful in debugging your tests. You can also directly inspect from Chrome dev tools.

How to run

Clone the repo and Install the project dependencies npm i

To run the tests on your terminal, run npm run cy:test

To run the tests against the Cypress Test Runner, run npm run cypress open

Once the test runner has loaded, click on the spec file you wish to test.