lesson-automation.md

Automation (with Cypress) 🤖

Prerequisites

• Laziness – delegate work to computers

Motivation

• Fun – you can tell computers what to do and they will do it
  • Robot beats "I am not a Robot" Captcha
    • Why Programming Is Important?
• Necessary (to survive ☠️)
  • Black Mirror"s Metalhead Is Upon Us

Demo

Use GhostInspector.com to automate something fun!

Workshop 1: Slack

Using Cypress, login to Slack and write some funny message to our channel.

Workshop 2: Microsite

Write Cypress tests for https://kiwi-gifts.skypicker.com/gifts/

Solution

Workshop 3: Kiwi.com

Write Cypress tests for https://www.kiwi.com

Solution: Partial

Useful links

• https://www.cypress.io
• https://docs.cypress.io
• https://docs.cypress.io/api/api/table-of-contents.html
• https://github.com/cypress-io
• https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues