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Tutorial Basic Automation Cypress

The document provides instructions on how to install Cypress for automation testing on Windows. It details downloading Node.js, initializing a project directory, installing Cypress using NPM, and different ways to launch Cypress like using NPX or the full path.

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Tutorial Basic Automation Cypress

The document provides instructions on how to install Cypress for automation testing on Windows. It details downloading Node.js, initializing a project directory, installing Cypress using NPM, and different ways to launch Cypress like using NPX or the full path.

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Muhammad Nur
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Tutorial basic Automation Cypress

How to install ?

Downloading and installing Node.js


The following steps will guide you through the installation of
Node.js:

1. Visit the official Node.js website


(https://nodejs.org/en/download/).
2. Select the Windows installer option.
3. Download the installer package.
4. Install the Node.js package by following the instructions on the
Node.js website.

Initializing the project


As a best practice, Cypress is installed in the directory where the
project is located; that way, we can be sure that the Cypress tests
belong to the project. In our case, we will create a folder
inside Documents and call it cypress-tests, then navigate to that directory
when installing Cypress. We can use the following commands in a
Windows PowerShell terminal to create the cypress-tests directory and
navigate to it:
$ cd .\Documents
$ cd mkdir cypress-tests

After these commands are run successfully, we will then launch PowerShell
and navigate to the directory that we just created with the following
command:

$ cd .\Documents\cypress-tests
After creating the directory, we will then initialize an empty JavaScript
project by running the following command in PowerShell:

$ npm init –y

This will create a default package.json file that will be used to define our
project.

Installing Cypress on Windows


We will now install Cypress using npm in our project directory with
the following command:

$ npm install cypress --save-dev

Running with Npx


npx is used to execute npm package binaries and comes with all
npm versions from version 5.2. Npx can also be installed using npm
from npmjs.com. To run Cypress using npx, you need to run the following
command:
npx cypress open

Launching Cypress using the full path


This method of launching Cypress references the installed Cypress
executable located in node_modules and works by running the executable
to open Cypress:
$ ./node_modules/.bin/cypress open

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