Waweru Mwaura - End-to-End Web Testing with Cypress: Explore techniques for automated frontend web testing with Cypress and JavaScript

Explore techniques for automated frontend web testing with Cypress and JavaScript

Waweru Mwaura

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To my wife, Irene, for her love, support, and inspiration

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Waweru Mwaura is a software engineer with a specialization in automation testing and tools that make testing an interesting adventure and not just another item to cross off the software release list. He is an engineering hobbyist with interests ranging from hardware electronics and robotics to software development, architecture, and team development. Waweru is a lifelong learner and during his journey, he has helped organizations tackle testing problems and helped grow manual QA teams to automation teams with a focus on quality and defect prevention. In his free time, he practices professional photography.

I want to thank the people who have been close to me and supported me, especially my wife, Irene, and the amazing Packt team.

Milena Paz is a software QA and automation engineer working with Cypress, from San Diego, California and currently residing in Miami, Florida. Her career began with the pursuit of a bachelor's degree in computer information systems and she has since worked with small and large technical organizations in the U.S. for a decade. She enjoys playing a key role in development teams and thrives in exceptionally fast-paced environments. She is always learning about and working with new and exciting tools for automation.

Vikas Kumar is an experienced technical test engineering leader with 13 years of experience in quality assurance, test engineering, automation, and release management. He is technically sophisticated with in-depth knowledge of tool development in UI, backend, mobile, and performance engineering. He has experience in building high-performing teams from the ground up, team management, software test engineering, the software life cycle, and automation concepts and frameworks.

He started his career in 2007, just after finishing his BE in electronics and communication from BITM, Bellary, and was campus-hired by HCL Technologies.

Vikas is currently residing in Abu Dhabi, UAE, with his wife and 5-year-old daughter. He loves driving, visiting new places, and spending time with family and friends. His hobbies are playing cricket, reading books, listening to music, and watching soccer an ardent fan of FC Barcelona. In his free time, he also guides and mentors engineering college graduates and job seekers around software testing and automation frameworks.

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