SimpliSafe-Test-Example 🚀

This repository contains example of automated end-to-end tests for registering a new user in the SimpliSafe web-app. This is just a very short example of only two smoke tests for positive and negative scenarios, created only to demonstrate the use of Cypress for testing the app.

Install

• Clone this repository to your local machine.
• Install the required dependencies in the project running command: npm i.

Usage

Before running the tests, I recommend viewing their code in the spec file cypress/e2e/userRegister.cy.js. To make the logic easier to understand, some comments have been added to the code.

• I would recommend running the tests in the Cypress test runner to track their execution step by step. To do this, just simply run the npm run cy:open command in your terminal. The project settings provide the ability to bypass initial Cypress windows and run tests in the Chrome browser in incognito mode.

• To run the tests headlessly use the command npm run cy:run. Then in the cypress/reports folder that will appear, you can view an html report on the tests run performed by the installed Cypress Mochawesome reporter.

• The project also has a workflow file configured for running tests in CI using GitHub Actions and saving testing artifacts (.github/workflows/ci.yml). You can view the runs in the Actions section of this repository.

To receive a one-time password (OTP) via SMS as part of the Two-factor authentication (2FA) workflow, I used the third-party service Twilio. Receiving OTP is implemented using an API call and wrapped in a custom command.

Due to lack of sufficient time, beyond the scope of testing I left checking the data sent by the backend when registering a new user and his further authentication (calls 'token', 'authCheck', 'loginInfo'). This could also be the subject of writing API tests for authenticating a registered user in an application.

Happy testing! Thanks for your attention!