VoV 007: Testing Vue.js with Cypress with Gleb Bahmutov

Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Joe Eames
Erik Hanchett
Chris Fritz

Special Guests: Gleb Bahmutov

In this episode of Views on Vue, the panelists discuss testing Vue.js with Cypress with Gleb Bahmutov. Gleb runs engineering at a small startup called Cypress, which is an end to end test runner. They talk about what Cypress is, what end to end testing is, and the importance of test driven development. They also touch on the different Cypress features and how using it can help save you time in your testing.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Gleb intro
What is Cypress?
Selenium
Writing and running unit tests is easy, but could lead to problems
You don’t want to waste too much of your time writing tests
Test by need not by choice
Cypress as a more reliable and easier test runner
What is end to end testing?
What kinds of testing can Cypress be used for?
Deployed systems
Test driven development
Cypress provides a good testing environment
Like the Cypress environment
Cypress features
Cypress runs in Chrome or Electron browser
Are there times when you might want to do something framework specific in Cypress?
Vue.js
Test the dashboard using Cypress
Creating a mock API
Keep your end to end tests fast
And much, much more!