Education: Flake

Imagine a small "application" that shows Window Confirm popup when the user clicks a button. The HTML might look like this...…

Recently a user opened a Cypress issue #3135 [https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/3135] asking why the cy.click() [https://on.cypress.io/click] command was behaving differently than the way click behaved when a user clicks on the button. We’ve seen many people ask similar questions involvin…

Can the test runner be too quick? Can the tests start before the application is ready to handle the test steps? It definitely can happen. This blog post shows a little trick one can use to detect when a web application really starts, so that the test runner never has to wait longer than necessary.…